Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

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Count Geraint, Viscount Enid and Viscount Gideon are characters that appear in spin-off game Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes.

The name Geraint is Welsh and comes from the Latin name Gerontius, meaning “old man”. Geraint appears as a knight in the Welsh tales of the Mabinogion.

Enid is a Welsh name, meaning “spirit”, “soul”, “life”, “purity”.

Geraint and Enid appear together in the Welsh tale Geraint and Enid, in which they are married.

Gideon’s name may derive from the magician and trickster Gwydion fab Dôn from Welsh mythology.

Baron Pryderi is a character whose name comes from Pryderi, a character that appears in all four branches of the Mabinogi tales.

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd is a character whose last name comes from his ancestor Blaiddyd. The noble House Blaiddyd lays claim to a number of territories in the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus. “Blaiddyd” is the Welsh name of Bladud, a legendary King of Britain. In Welsh, “Blaiddyd” means “Wolf Lord”, from blaidd (“wolf”) and iudd (“lord”).

Garreg Mach Monastery can be assumed to take its name from the Welsh words carreg (“stone”) and bach (“small” or “little”), roughly producing the name “Little Stone Monastery”.

The location Arianrhod is returned to following its appearance in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Arianrhod’s name comes from the mythical Welsh figure, and in some cases is interpreted as a goddess, with her name meaning “Silver Wheel”, from the Welsh words arian and rhod.

In Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, the city of Arianrhod is known as the “Silver Maiden”, alluding to the original Welsh name.

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