4.1 Mystery of the Emblem Book 2 and New Mystery of the Emblem.In Shadows of Valentia, collecting astral shards and assembling Star Jacinths out of them is the focus of the DLC episodes The Astral Temple and The Inner Sanctum, and is unrelated to the main story in addition to one each of the twelve types of astral shards, a Black Pearl is also necessary to obtain the Star Jacinth. If the player fails to obtain even one astral shard, the Starsphere cannot be assembled in Chapter 14, and as the Starsphere is necessary to obtain the Binding Shield, this will eventually guarantee that the player gets the game's bad ending. In Mystery of the Emblem and New Mystery of the Emblem, all twelve astral shards must be collected in order to assemble and obtain the Starsphere, at which point they will all be removed from the player's inventories. In both versions of Mystery, the boosts stack with each other, allowing a single unit to have the stat benefits of multiple shards at the same time this is not possible in Shadows of Valentia, since units are only able to carry one item at a time. In New Mystery of the Emblem, the astral shards give temporary boosts to the stats of units when held in a unit's inventory, with each shard giving a total +2 stat boost distributed across one or two stats. Some shards reduce one growth rate to allow for a much larger boost. In Mystery of the Emblem and Shadows of Valentia, the shards affect the growth rates of units who carry them, with each giving a total 40% boost to growth rates distributed across one or several stats (or less in Shadows of Valentia if resistance is involved). In Mystery of the Emblem and New Mystery of the Emblem, they are the pieces of the broken Starsphere, and collecting all twelve to restore the Starsphere to its original state is one of Marth's primary goals during the first part of the story in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, they are twelve of the thirteen pieces that can be used to form a Star Jacinth (the thirteenth being a Black Pearl).īefore being restored into the Starsphere or Star Jacinth, the individual astral shards each have an effect on the stats of a unit who holds them, with the effect being a fraction of what the complete Starsphere does in its respective game. The astral shards (Japanese: 星の欠片 star fragments) are a collection of twelve plot-important items that appear in Book 2 of Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, its remake New Mystery of the Emblem, and Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. The twelve astral shards in New Mystery of the Emblem.

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