Alec is a playable character from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. Alongside Naoise and Arden, he is one of the knights of Chalphy who accompany Sigurd in his war against Verdane. He is also the best friend of Naoise.

Background

Alec is a knight of Chalphy who deploys with Sigurd alongside Naoise to rout the Verdanese barbarians in defense of Grannvale.

Alec is persumed to have perished in the Battle of Belhalla.

Personality

In contrast to Naoise, Alec is best described as having a laissez-faire and carefree attitude in regard to his knightly duties, due to his playful personality and habit of being rather teasing, if not rude to his fellow knights. Alec has a fondness for light-hearted banter with his fellow knights, often teasing Arden for his size, and a strong love of women (especially ones from Yngvi) that leads him to gravitate towards flirting with Silvia in their first conversation together.

Despite his more casual demeanor, Alec shares the same powerful loyalty to Sigurd as the rest of his companions, and is one of the first ones to agree to aid in the battle against Verdane. In addition to this, despite his admission that he likes to see beautiful women, he is faithful to his wife and vows never to cheat on her, as seen in his lovers talk with Brigid in Chapter 5. He also shows worry for his wife's safety, such as in his lovers talk with Silvia in the same chapter.

Humorously, his lovers conversation with Silvia implies that Alec's flirtatious nature does indeed come back to trouble him, as an implication is made that neither he nor Silvia knew that he had gotten her pregnant with Lene.

In-Game

Base Stats

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Cavalier								-
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
2	32	9	0	9	10	4	7	0	8	0	2,000
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Follow-Up Nihil				Sword - B Lance - C				Iron Sword

Growth Rates

Promotion Gains

Promoted Class
Paladin
+2	+5	+3	+3	+3	+5	+1
Weapon Levels
+1

Overall

Subjective: The following part of this article is based upon the editor's personal experiences and opinions, and therefore may not be applicable for all readers.

As the Abel Archetype of Genealogy of the Holy War, Alec's stat growths are well rounded with a focus on Skill. While Alec gets the benefit of being a mounted unit, which is important in Genealogy of the Holy War, he usually winds up being less impressive than your other mounted units. Alec's offense is very consistent, in that he has very high Accuracy and enough Speed that he should be able to Follow-Up Attack most units in the game, but, due to his unimpressive Strength, his damage will be consistently on the low side, particularly since he has some trouble obtaining strong weapons and cannot use A-level Swords or Spears even after his Promotion, which only improves his lance rank, meaning that outside of the first two chapters, he has a lot of difficulty in killing enemies despite his ability to double.

There are some options to remedy these shortcomings, such as giving Alec the Power Ring from Chapter 3 or having Ayra sell him the Brave Sword. However, these items are highly contested, and Alec probably is not the best candidate to receive them.

There is, however, another trick that could make Alec better in dealing damage. Since every Paladin receives a +5 bonus in Magic, he could use this bonus - along with the Magic ring that Sandima drops in Chapter 1 - to make some very efficient usage of Magic Swords. If Alec is promoted by Chapter 3, he will be able to kill most infantry, unpromoted units in one round. And even after this chapter, he will still be able to deal consistently great damage to most enemies he faces. The good news are that those resources are usually not contested by anyone - except potentially Erinys after she promotes, though she usually has better combat with physical weapons thanks to learning Adept after promoting.

All in all, Alec is good unit thanks to his horse, but he will need special resources to be truly great at combat.

Father Overview

Alec has evenly split growths aside from Magic and Resistance, meaning his children will wind up well rounded. His lack of Holy Blood means that none of his stat growths are above average and he can only pass on B-level weapons to his children. Follow-Up is a common but important skill to pass on, and Nihil can be very useful for some children to inherit. Alec is generally a safe, conservative pick for a father that will result in average children that will at least have Follow-Up. A big problem for Alec is that Beowolf is nearly identical to Alec, except that Beowolf can pass on A-rank Swords and has preferable growths for most pairings. So for any given pairing, Beowolf is always better. The sole exception to this is Erinys due to Fee gaining Nihil.

Alec is best paired with Lachesis. Brigid, Erinys, Edain are decent choices with flaws. Sylvia is encouraged by the game's mechanics as one of Alec's main love interests but technically speaking she's merely a so-so option unless there is no other alternative. Ayra and Tailtiu should be avoided due to a lack of inheritable skills, items, or poor stat distribution.

• Lachesis: Alec will give both Diarmuid and Nanna Follow-Up and well-rounded growths. Alec can pass on some respectable B-level swords to Diarmuid, including a possible Brave Sword and some ranged Magic Swords. Nihil allows Diarmuid and Nanna to avoid Critical damage from Killer weapons and Horseslayers, which while uncommon, is a nice little bonus.
• Brigid: Patty will have Follow-Up before Promotion, which definitely increases her usability, but Alec's low Strength growth will be a hindrance. She will also be stuck with C-level swords. Febail will gain Nihil, which will make him much more reliable against Julius, which is particularly useful in faster settings where Velthomer castle won't be bothered with in Endgame.
• Erinys: Ced will suffer low Magic growth, but his starting stats should be enough that Alec does not ruin him. It is recommended if you choose this pairing that you give Alec the Magic Ring to pass on to Ced. Fee will notably gain Nihil, making her no longer need to fear being in range of Bow and Ballista units.
• Edain: Lester and Lana will gain Follow-Up and evenly split stats, but Lester will inherit no weapons and Lana will suffer Magic growth problems. Lester has worse fathers, but Alec just makes him the second generation equivalent of Midir.

Silvia is the choice encouraged by the game's mechanics for Alec to pursue, but the results are fairly poor. Lene and Coirpre are both support units, so they do not benefit all that much from receiving Follow-Up from Alec, even combined with Silvia's Adept. Nihil is also of dubious use to them as they are unlikely to be fighting much, let alone fighting units capable of Critical. Nor will Alec be able to pass anything but rings on to Coirpre. Despite the children gaining well-rounded stats, Coirpre's Magic will suffer, and it is arguably the stat he cares about the most. Many players who pair Alec with Silvia do so for story and dialogue rather than stats.

Conversations

In Chapter 2, after Infini Castle is captured, Alec may speak to Silvia, and she will gain 100 love points with him.

In Chapter 5, if Alec is the lover of Silvia or Brigid, she may speak to him, but nothing will result of it.

Love Growths

Supports

Character	Bonus
Edain	0+2
Ayra	0+2
Lachesis	50+2
Erinys	50+2
Silvia	0+3
Brigid	50+4
Tailtiu	120+3

Quotes

Non-Canon Appearances

Fire Emblem: Light Inheritors

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Mitsuki Oosawa manga)

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Nattsu Fujimori manga)

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War Gag Paradise

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War - Sigurd's Tale

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War - Last of the Earth Dragons

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War - Forest and Lake Country

Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher)

Alec is illustrated in the trading card game Fire Emblem Cipher with the following cards:

B06-016HN

B06-017N

Choose Your Legends Placement History

Round	Placement	Character Version	Votes

CYL1	575	Genealogy of the Holy War	142
CYL2	693 ↓118	Genealogy of the Holy War	62 ↓80
CYL3	508 ↑185	Genealogy of the Holy War	101 ↑39
CYL4	522 ↓14	Genealogy of the Holy War	68 ↓33
CYL5	469 ↑53	Genealogy of the Holy War	36 ↓32
CYL6	472 ↓33	Genealogy of the Holy War	44 ↑8
CYL7	392 ↑80	Genealogy of the Holy War	40 ↓4
CYL8	420 ↓28	Genealogy of the Holy War	22 ↓18

CYL9

351 ↑69

Genealogy of the Holy War

48 ↑26

Trivia

• Alec is the first example of the Abel Archetype to match the Skill, Speed, and Luck build with the green armor and laid-back personality.

Gallery

See main article: Alec/Gallery.