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{{Infobox Character General
|name = Sothis
|image = [[File:SSBU spirit Sothis.png|250px]]
|caption = [[File:FireEmblemSymbol.svg|50px|class=invert-dark]]
Official artwork of Sothis from ''{{s|fireemblemwiki|Fire Emblem: Three Houses}}''.
|universe={{uv|Fire Emblem}}
|firstgame = ''{{s|fireemblemwiki|Fire Emblem: Three Houses}}'' (2019)
|lastappearance = ''{{s|fireemblemwiki|Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes}}'' (2022)
|games = ''[[Ultimate]]''
|console = Nintendo Switch
|species = [[fireemblemwiki:God|Goddess]]
|gender = Female
|homeworld = {{s|fireemblemwiki|Fódlan}}
|artist = [[fireemblemwiki:Artists of the Fire Emblem series#Chinatsu Kurahana|Chinatsu Kurahana]]
|englishactor = {{iw|wikipedia|Cassandra Lee Morris}}
|japanactor = {{iw|wikipedia|Tomoyo Kurosawa}}
|interwiki = fireemblemwiki
|interwikiname = Fire Emblem Wiki
|interwikipage = Sothis
}}
'''Sothis''' ({{ja|ソティス|Sotisu}}, ''Sothis'') is a character who debuts in ''Fire Emblem: Three Houses'', as an entity that appears in [[Byleth]]'s dreams and eventually manifests into a human form. In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', she appears in Byleth's Final Smash as well as their reveal trailer.

==Origin==
Sothis is the progenitor god of the continent of {{s|fireemblemwiki|Fódlan}} in ''{{s|fireemblemwiki|Fire Emblem: Three Houses}}''. Many years before the start of the game, Sothis arrived in Fódlan and created her children, the {{s|fireemblemwiki|Nabatea}}ns, as well as gifting the humans who already lived on the continent, the {{s|fireemblemwiki|Agartha}}ns, with great power and technology. Eventually, the Agarthans became greedy and arrogant and attempted to wage war against Sothis and the Nabateans, only to nearly destroy themselves and the continent. Sothis expended most of her energy to heal the continent, then fell into a long slumber, while the surviving Agarthans retreated underground.

The Agarthans eventually recruited a bandit named {{s|fireemblemwiki|Nemesis}} to enact revenge on Sothis and the Nabateans. Nemesis and his warriors, the {{s|fireemblemwiki|Ten Elites}}, slaughtered the sleeping Sothis as well as almost all of the Nabateans, using their hearts to grant themselves {{s|fireemblemwiki|Crest}}s and their bones to create the {{s|fireemblem|Heroes' Relics}}. The five surviving Nabateans, led by Sothis's daughter {{s|fireemblemwiki|Seiros}}, allied themselves with one of Nemesis's own and eventually destroyed Nemesis and the Ten Elites. Following the war, Seiros rewrote history to hide the truth of the Heroes' Relics and Crests, creating the Church of Seiros. By the time of the game, Seiros has taken on a new identity, serving as the Archbishop {{s|fireemblemwiki|Rhea}}.

Rhea plots to revive Sothis, bestowing Sothis's Crest, the {{s|fireemblemwiki|Crest of Flames}}, upon a woman of the church. The woman, whose name is  Sitri, falls in love with and marries {{s|fireemblemwiki|Jeralt}}, the captain of the Knights of Seiros, and becomes pregnant; however, the child is stillborn.  Sitri pleads with Rhea to use her Crest to revive her child and Rhea relents, killing Sitri in the process, though the baby remains without a heartbeat. Suspecting Rhea is not telling him the full truth of what happened to his wife and child, Jeralt fakes his and the child's death and flees the Monastery. This child grows up to be [[Byleth]], seeing Sothis in their dreams; however, Sothis cannot remember her past. With Sothis's help, Byleth gains the ability to rewind time.

After a chance encounter results in Jeralt and Byleth being brought back to the Monastery, Rhea continues her plan to revive her mother. Sothis slowly regains her memories and eventually realizes that she is the progenitor god, but is forced to merge her power with Byleth in order to allow them to escape a dark realm they were banished to by one of the remaining Agarthans. Although Byleth now has the full power of the goddess, Sothis no longer appears to speak to them. Rhea attempts to have Sothis take over Byleth's body by having them sit on the throne, but Sothis refuses.

It is possible for Byleth to fall in love with Sothis and select her as their S-Support at the end of the game, even in Crimson Flower, despite Byleth's crest being destroyed in the route; should these conditions be met, Sothis will regain her form in Byleth's dreams.

In a similar vein to [[Viridi]] from the {{uv|Kid Icarus}} universe, Sothis has [https://www.reddit.com/r/fireemblem/comments/aqn211/a_quick_note_on_sothis_japanese_speech_pattern informal oldman-like speech pattern] in the Japanese version.

==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''==
[[File:Progenitor God Ruptured Heaven.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Sothis in Progenitor God Ruptured Heaven.]]
Sothis appears as part of {{SSBU|Byleth}}'s Final Smash, [[Progenitor God Ruptured Heaven]]. Additionally, one of Byleth's costumes uses the same color scheme as Sothis.
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===Spirit===
Sothis also appears as a Legend-class [[support spirit]] in the ''Fire Emblem: Three Houses'' DLC Spirit Board.

Sothis uses a female Byleth puppet fighter whose alternate costume is based on Byleth after fusing with Sothis, and is fought on the [[Spear Pillar]] stage's [[Ω form]]. During the battle, the female Byleth will suddenly have a Final Smash. Also, the female Byleth's health will increase significantly when she is at high damage, referencing the first meeting between Byleth and Sothis after the former took a fatal attack from the bandit leader Kostas, where Sothis granted them the Divine Pulse, a time manipulation power which allowed Byleth to rewind time and disarm Kostas.
{|class="wikitable"
! No. !! Image !! Name !! Type !! Class !! Cost !! Ability !! Series
|-
| 1,388 || {{SpiritTableName|Sothis}} || {{SpiritType|Support}} || ★★★★ || 3 || Critical-Health Healing ↑ ↑ || ''Fire Emblem'' Series
|}

===Other===
Byleth's [[List of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character trailers#Byleth|reveal trailer]] features Sothis all throughout, in a replica of the end of Chapter 10 from ''Fire Emblem: Three Houses''.

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==Gallery==
<gallery>
Byleth Trailer.png|Sothis as she appears in Byleth's character trailer.
SothisFinalTP.png|The Sothis sprite that appears during Progenitor God Ruptured Heaven.
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{langtable
|ja={{ja|ソティス|Sotisu}}, ''Sothis''
|en=Sothis
|fr=Sothis
|es=Sothis
|de=Sothis
|it=Sothis
|nl=Sothis
|ru={{rollover|Сотис|Sotis|?}}
|ko={{rollover|소티스|Sotiseu|?}}, ''Sothis''
|zh_cn={{rollover|苏谛斯|Sūdìsī|?}}, ''Sothis''
|zh_tw={{rollover|蘇諦斯|Sūdìsī|?}}, ''Sothis''
}}

==Trivia==
*One of Sothis' lines from {{SSBU|Byleth}}'s reveal trailer, "''I see. Too many swordsmen, are there?''" ({{ja|なに？「剣士はたくさんおるからもうよいじゃろう」と？|Nani? "Kenshi wa takusan orukara mō yoijarou" to?}}, ''What? "No need for another swordfighter because there are already enough," you say?'') may be a reference to arguments regarding the rapidly increasing amount of playable swordfightersーincluding, perhaps most notably, the ''Fire Emblem'' charactersーin both ''[[SSB4]]'' and ''Ultimate'', compared to the games up until ''[[Brawl]]''.
**Shortly after Byleth's reveal, the line itself has become notorious and memetic within the fandom, resulting in Sothis' English voice actress, Cassandra Lee Morris, [https://www.twitter.com/SoCassandra/status/1217863228316737536 replying to the fans] as an acknowledgement of the line's infamy.
*Sothis shares her voice actress with [[Morgana]] in English, who similarly narrated a [[Downloadable content (SSBU)|DLC]] fighter's reveal trailer (in this case, {{SSBU|Joker}}).
*Sothis is the second character to hold a [[Smash invitation|Smash Invitation]] in a [[List of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character trailers|character trailer]] without becoming a playable fighter, behind {{s|nookipedia|Pete}}.

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