Nichol

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Nichol Artwork of Nichol from Fire Emblem Fates. An apathetic Nohrian soldier with a fierce will to survive at any cost.

Gender Male Race Human Nationality Nohrian Starting class Malig Knight Voiced by Walden James (English, Fates) Kenji Hamada (Japanese, Fates) Appearance(s) Fire Emblem Fates

“	Heh. Sing like that again, and I might just let my comrade pluck out your tongue. Then again, my band of malevolent brothers is in dire need of amusement. So carry on. Scream your heart out. Top of your lungs now...	”	— Nichol

Nichol (Japanese: ナハト Nacht) is a character in Fire Emblem Fates. A Nohrian leader of a band of thieves, he serves as the boss of Sophie's paralogue. Nichol can be captured, and thus recruited, in all three routes of Fates. Like all other captureable bosses, Nichol has no supports or Private Quarters interactions.

Fire Emblem Fates

Role

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Starting stats and growth rates

Stats with two figures separated by a ~ are presented as a range. The figures to the left of the ~ are taken from a Chapter 8 playthrough, the earliest possible point where this chapter may be undertaken in the Birthright and Conquest campaigns; the figures to the right of the ~ are taken from a Chapter 23 playthrough, the point where this boss hits level 20 and stops scaling from there.

Normal Hard Lunatic

Malig Knight
Level	5~20
Movement	8

Recruitment: Paralogue 5, persuade or bribe in the prison after Orochi or Niles captures him

Stats Growths Mods Pair Up

Max HP	33~44	Speed	13~18
Strength	17~25	Luck	11~13
Magic	8~16	Defense	16~23
Skill	13~19	Resistance	13~20

Max HP	35%	Speed	50%
Strength	60%	Luck	15%
Magic	35%	Defense	45%
Skill	55%	Resistance	35%

		Speed	±0
Strength	+1	Luck	−1
Magic	−1	Defense	+1
Skill	+1	Resistance	−1

C Support	--
B Support	--
A Support	--
S Support	--

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Inventory	Skills
Silver Axe*  Thunder*	--
Weapon Levels -- -- B -- C -- -- --

Malig Knight
Level	5~20
Movement	8

Recruitment: Paralogue 5, persuade or bribe in the prison after Orochi or Niles captures him

Stats Growths Mods Pair Up

Max HP	33~44	Speed	17~22
Strength	17~25	Luck	11~13
Magic	10~18	Defense	16~23
Skill	16~22	Resistance	13~20

Max HP	35%	Speed	50%
Strength	60%	Luck	15%
Magic	35%	Defense	45%
Skill	55%	Resistance	35%

		Speed	±0
Strength	+1	Luck	−1
Magic	−1	Defense	+1
Skill	+1	Resistance	−1

C Support	--
B Support	--
A Support	--
S Support	--

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Inventory	Skills
Silver Axe*  Thunder*	--
Weapon Levels -- -- B -- C -- -- --

Malig Knight
Level	5~20
Movement	8

Recruitment: Paralogue 5, persuade or bribe in the prison after Orochi or Niles captures him

Stats Growths Mods Pair Up

Max HP	36~47	Speed	17~22
Strength	20~28+2	Luck	11~13
Magic	13~21	Defense	18~25
Skill	16~22	Resistance	15~22

Max HP	35%	Speed	50%
Strength	60%	Luck	15%
Magic	35%	Defense	45%
Skill	55%	Resistance	35%

		Speed	±0
Strength	+1	Luck	−1
Magic	−1	Defense	+1
Skill	+1	Resistance	−1

C Support	--
B Support	--
A Support	--
S Support	--

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Inventory	Skills
Silver Axe*  Thunder*	Strength +2  Lunge
Weapon Levels -- -- A -- B -- -- --

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Reclassing options

Nichol Base classes:* Wyvern Rider Wyvern Lord Malig Knight Reclass options:

See reclass for more details on the reclassing system.

Growth rates when reclassed

Class	HP	Str	Mag	Skill	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Cha	Bld
Wyvern Lord	45%	60%	20%	60%	55%	20%	55%	20%	{{{cha}}}	{{{bld}}}

Skill set

Skill set
Skill	Learned at
	Strength +2	Starting from level 6. Innate in Lunatic mode.
	Lunge	Starting from level 7. Innate in Lunatic mode.
	Savage Blow	Malig Knight, starting from level 8 (From level 6 on Lunatic)
	Trample	Malig Knight, starting from level 15
	Rally Defense	Wyvern Lord, starting from level 8 (From level 6 on Lunatic)
	Swordbreaker	Wyvern Lord, starting from level 15
The above skill list does not include skills obtained via DLC.

Analysis

This character analysis section may not be accurate to every player's experience.

Nichol is a prepromoted Malig Knight available to the player after being captured in Paralogue 5 and subsequently persuaded in prison. His level, stats, and weapon ranks are adjusted depending on when the paralogue is played. Nichol has no personal skill, as well as no other skills to start with on Normal and Hard, with just Wyvern Rider's starting skills on Lunatic. Strength +2 is useful given his limited skill pool, and Lunge has niche use cases for adjusting his position in battle. He will also gain the previously mentioned skills starting at levels 6 and 7, respectively, in either of his classes.

Due to his previously mentioned limited skill access without DLC, Nichol should learn every possible skill he can. From Malig Knight, he learns Savage Blow, which allows him to deal some area-of-effect damage to enemies near his target after combat, as well as Trample for 5 extra damage against non-mounted foes. His other class, Wyvern Lord, has him trade his tomes, magic, and resistance for lances and increases to all of his other growths aside from strength. Wvyern Lord's skills greatly benefit Nichol; Rally Defense allows him to improve the defense of all allies within 2 tiles of him, whereas Swordbreaker grants him +50 hit and avoid against foes wielding swords and katana, substantially improving his matchup against them.

Nichol's potential is not as great as that of story units, meaning he is best reserved as a unit that can fulfill a flying niche as needed. As the only default Malig Knight on Birthright, Nichol will perform better there than anywhere else; his only competition is Scarlet, and even then, they only compete if Nichol is reclassed to Wyvern Lord. On Conquest and Revelation, Nichol is strictly outclassed by Camilla thanks to her superior bases, growths, skill access, and longtime prospects. Still, he will perform adequately at worst and provides a free Malig Knight option, which still places him in a favorable light.

Personality

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Quotes

Battle quote

“	What hope do any of you pathetic fools have against me? But you, friend, have an especially hopeful light in your eyes. Come closer. I'll be glad to extinguish it for you.	”	— Nichol's battle quote in Paralogue 5

Death quote

“	It was... inevitable.	”	— Nichol's defeated quote

“	So hope triumphed in the end? Not cruelty? It seems I backed the wrong horse. Alas, no turning back now...	”	— Nichol's death quote

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Fates	An apathetic Nohrian soldier with a fierce will to survive at any cost.	暗夜王国の兵士。あらゆることに無気力だが、 生きることへの執着だけは人一倍強い。

Choose Your Legends placement history

Round	Placement	Character	Votes

CYL 1 (2017)

460

Nichol Fates

271

CYL 2 (2018)

628

Nichol Fates

109 (−162)

CYL 3 (2019)

571

Nichol Fates

122

CYL 4 (2020)

690

Nichol Fates

53 (−69)

CYL 5 (2021)

638 (−52)

Nichol Fates

67

CYL 6 (2022)

524 (−116)

Nichol Fates

124

CYL 7 (2023)

581

Nichol Fates

69 (−55)

CYL 8 (2024)

550 (−31)

Nichol Fates

79

CYL 9 (2025)

363 (−187)

Nichol Fates

130 (+51)

CYL 10 (2026)

231 (−132)

Nichol Fates

156 (+26)

Total results		This character has 10 entries across all Choose Your Legends polls.	1,180

Trivia

• Nichol possesses a critical cut-in portrait, a trait shared with Candace, and lacked by other unplayable or capture-exclusive bosses. Additionally, his name is located among the names of characters that can exclusively marry Corrin, suggesting he had a more significant role before becoming a paralogue boss. Nichol and Candace are also the only capturable bosses to be featured in the first Choose Your Legends event, with the others only being added in CYL 5.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Nichol	Variant of Nicholas, a name of Greek origin meaning "victory for the people" made popular by Saint Nicholas.
Japanese	ナハト	Romanized in the internal game files as Nacht. Nacht is German, Dutch, and West Frisian for "night".
Spanish	Nichol	--
French	Nichol	--
German	Nichol	--
Italian	Nichol	--
Portuguese	Nichol	Used in the Choose Your Legends polls for Fire Emblem Heroes.
Traditional Chinese	拿赫特	Nacht; used in the Choose Your Legends polls for Heroes.

Gallery

Portraits

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  High-quality portrait artwork of Nichol from Fates.
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  Portrait of Nichol in Fates.

References

This article is part of Project Characters, a project focused on writing articles for every character present in the Fire Emblem series.