Minerva

Minerva (ミネルバ, Mineruba) is the Legendary Red Dragoon, a warrior princess hailing from the kingdom of Macedon. She is famous for her skills as a Wyvern Rider, as well as her sheer might, as well as using the royal Macedonian axe, Hauteclere.

While she plays much the same as Camilla, Minerva boasts the highest Strength stat out of all Hero units.

Movelist

 * X: If her gauge is full, Minerva flies forward, doing three slashes, then ignites an fiery field.
 * Y, X: Minerva uses her wyvern to flip lashing its tail.
 * Y, Y, Y, X: Minerva spins her axe above her head forming a fireball, then sends it crashing down.
 * Y, Y, Y, Y, X: Minerva swings her axe to the left and right, then throws it upward to rapidly damage enemies, then catches it and flips with her wyvern then does a fiery slash.
 * Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, X: Minerva does a series of criss-cross slashes with her axe, then slams her axe causing a fiery explosion.
 * A: Minerva lunges her ride forward, launching those in front of her up into the air, and slashes them up, finishing them with a slam of her axe.
 * A (Dual Special): Minerva flies down to swoop enemies into the air trapping them in a fiery pillar, then makes the pillar explode with a slash.

Fighting Style
As another flying unit, Minerva can reach otherwise inaccessible areas but has a vulnerability to bows, as well as magic-users due to her low Resistance.

Minerva's unique Boost Crest is Iota's Shield, a shield that is named after the founder of Macedon. As in the home games, it nullifies enemy effectiveness from slayer-type damage, such as Wingslayer and Dracoslayer, much like how it did in the first game it appeared.

Trivia

 * During Minerva's Awakening Special, she changes her main weapon from axe to spear. This is because, in the original versions of her home games, Shadow Dragon and the Sword of Light & Mystery of the Fire Emblem, Wyvern Riders were largely Lance units, and didn't get access to axes until their Nintendo DS remakes, at the cost of the class losing access to swords. The lance that Minerva uses looks like the Dragonpike during its incarnations in the.
 * In her home games, Minerva doesn't have access to the Wyvern Lord class (the traditional promoted class for Wyvern Riders) when having her Class Change, as the promoted form of the Pegasus Knight class in both (New) Shadow Dragon and (New) Mystery of the Emblem are Wyvern Riders, with Minerva being a pre-promoted Wyvern Rider unit. The first instance of her having access to the Wyvern Lord class is through her appearance in Fire Emblem Awakening as part of the Lost Bloodlines DLC and her recruitment in SpotPass.