Sacrifice

Sacrifice Icon of the Sacrifice skill in Radiant Dawn. Uses unit's own HP to restore allied units' HP and return conditions to normal. Micaiah

Type(s) Personal Capacity 0 Game(s) Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Sacrifice (Japanese: 癒しの手 Healing Hand) is a healing skill exclusive to Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It is exclusive to Micaiah of the Dawn Brigade. It gives her the unique ability to sacrifice her own HP to restore another's health by touch.

History

Being able to heal without use of staves is a rare ability, which Micaiah obtained as a manifestation of her powers as a Branded. Sacrifice came to be associated with Micaiah by the people of Daein and the Begnion occupation force as part of her reputation as the "Silver Haired Maiden". Through the power of Sacrifice, Micaiah can draw wounds sustained by others into her own body, healing them while taking on the burden of their injury herself. Though Sothe warned Micaiah against using it in public for this reason of being an easy way to identify her, she nonetheless uses it to heal Nico of injuries inflicted by Begnion archers before a crowd of soldiers and civilians while trying to flee said soldiers.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Radiant Dawn		Drains the user's HP to restore the HP of another allied unit. It also cures status effects, with no HP cost to the user.	Command (Sacrifice) if user's HP > 1	0	Drains as much HP from the user as necessary to restore the target to full HP, unless the user would fall below 1 HP in order to do so. In such a case, the user's HP falls to 1 and the target's HP is restored by an amount equal to the HP lost by the user.

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Effect	Range	SP cost	Prerequisites	Unusable by	Inheritable	Other effects and notes
Heroes		Converts penalties on target ally into bonuses. Restores (user's current HP − 1) HP to target; reduces user's HP by amount restored.	1	400	Ardent Sacrifice		✗	--

Availability

Radiant Dawn

Units

Micaiah (Cannot be unequipped)

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn (skill assignment menu)	Uses unit's own HP to restore allied units' HP and return conditions to normal. Cannot unassign	自分のＨＰを分け与えて 味方のＨＰと状態異常を 回復する 書に戻せない
Radiant Dawn (help, NTSC)	Uses unit's own HP to restore allied units' HP and return status to normal. Micaiah	自分のＨＰを分け与えて 味方のＨＰと状態異常を回復する 【ミカヤ専用】
Radiant Dawn (help, PAL)	Uses unit's own HP to restore allied units' HP and return conditions to normal. Micaiah	--
Heroes	Converts penalties on target into bonuses. Restores HP to target = unit's current HP-1. Reduces unit's HP by amount restored.	対象が受けている弱化を無効化し、強化に変換する 対象のＨＰを回復し、その分自分のＨＰが減少する （回復量は、最大で自分の現ＨＰ－１）

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Sacrifice is present as a skill on one of Micaiah's cards in Fire Emblem Cipher: B05-053HN Silver-Haired Maiden, Micaiah, as well as its various promotional reprints. It is a manual-activation skill which provides a +10 attack boost to one chosen allied unit, in exchange for immediately discarding Micaiah herself.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Sacrifice	--
Japanese	癒しの手	Romanized as HEALINGHAND in its internal file name.
Spanish	Sacrificio	Sacrifice
French	Sacrifice	Sacrifice
German	Opfer	Sacrifice
Italian	Sacrificio	Sacrifice
Portuguese	Sacrifício	Sacrifice
Traditional Chinese	治癒之手	Healing hand

Gallery

• 
  Micaiah using Sacrifice on Nico in a Radiant Dawn cutscene.
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  Micaiah activating Sacrifice in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Ardent Sacrifice
• Great Sacrifice