Who is Anna?

Anna. The mysterious merchant known only as "the secret seller". There is a mystery behind this character from the Fire Emblem series. Let's analyze her appearances to figure out exactly who she is.

[wille]

I like how during the Engage Anna/Emblem bond conversations, most of the Emblems are like “jeez she’s so much like our Anna”.

[alistermanase]

My money is on Anna finding a Dragon Gate and meeting other versions of herself and starting a multiversal scam guild with only herself as members with the excuse that they are all sisters named Anna which is just a cover so no one knows what they are doing.

[hailthequeenFM]

Anna is basically the Nurse Joy of FE.

[funnywall]

It’s important to note that ranking so high in the Aksr military would give her access to their gates to other worlds meaning that she could be anywhere in any timeline

[landonvandop]

My theory is that Anna is a multiversal constant, every timeline has a version of here. It's kind of like the council of Reed's from marvel.

[teddy_scott]

Since the Anna in Engage is a kid, it does add merit to the sisters thing since now they aren’t all the same age in appearance

[Mr_DPZ]

Anna's birthday timezone theory is officially canon, as decided by me.

[Alice-FE]

Well, if Jake is a Pirate in FE7, and a Warrior in FE12, that adds up, because in FE8 pirates can promote to Warriors

[isiahjocast]

There’s also Apotheosis Anna that could confirm the theory too. The apotheosis dlc is stated by Anna to be a domain for beings who are beyond their world’s powers, being compared to gods frequently and it features enemies with stat caps beyond what the player is capable of reaching. If you manage to beat the “Secret Trials, ” which has even more difficult enemies, Anna will be the final boss at the end of the map with a stat line of 80/60/50/70/70/65/55/55 and the skills (Aether, Counter, Rightful God, Vantage+, Dragonskin), meaning she 100% has dragon blood in her veins.

[scienceme]

Crazy theory incoming: While she opened up a convenience store in Japan, Jake moved to America and got a job at State Farm

[GoldfishEmpire]

In the hidden library in Three Houses, it states that the calendar was reset after the war against Nemesis. That's why they're called Moons instead of Months, and it's one of the reasons why the Agarthans have highly advanced technology. That would mean that Anna's birthday in that game could be off from the calendars outside Fódlan.

[buddyman]

Anna is legit the Fire Emblem equivalent of Beedle from Zelda. They're just there and we love them. Don't question it.

[SantaRPG]

I was hoping you'd touch on one of my favorite things about fates Anna. Her marriage quote is "no refunds!" a fun nod to the fact that she is literal unrefundable content you paid real money for.

[Taraku]

My guess is that the original Anna is Heroes Anna, who has lived outside of the original timeline. That Anna, wanting to experience the worlds in more of a fresh light, traveled back to where it all began in the hopes of experiencing as much as she could, but during a few of her travels she has found her one true love Jake, but still kept going back and forth in time to go through more adventures. Yet, in the end decided to settle down with him even when just for a while. Once her kids were old enough, she went out to go to more worlds, and soon find knowledge of the real world, and noticed that the wealth in the worlds is useless and attempts to gain money from the players, meanwhile her children got far out of control and began repopulating the world in the masses, going from potentially 2 kids to in the hundreds. Some of these Anna's are warriors, some are just regular folks people, yet most have learned from their mother and decided to go out into the world as a shop owner, and those few are the ones who created the secret shops. And the newest Anna from Engage, she is just the youngest of a new generation of Anna's, and her family is most probably just Anna and Jake

[jokx]

At first when he got into her whole backstory I was like "this is going too far". Until I settled down and let myself enjoy, and just let you speculate for fun. And it was fun indeed. Good job. Never realized she may have a connection to Dragons too.

[Apolleh]

Counter point to your claim that 3H Anna's paralogue doesn't add anything to her character: Despite still holding a love for money, this Anna seems to be at least a little less exploitative and greedy as she firmly believes in the trust between the customer and the merchant, and some monastry dialogue further supports her not being nearly as self centered, like her expressing her grievances about the Blood of The Eagle & Lion at Gronder and feeling genuinely upset after ch 9

Course those glimpses are all we have cause IntSys couldn't even be bothered to give Anna more depth with supports even though they sure as hell put a lot of depth into literally everything else in the game!!! And that shown potential with the afformentioned monastary dialogue *really* makes her lack of supports hurt

[AvelineMelena]

And in Engage's credits you can see Engage Anna finding her sisters... Awakening and Fates Annas

[TheDracolordian]

Honestly I would think it’s funny if it’s just a normal girl who married a guy named Jake who kept having daughters named Anna and they kept marrying guys named Jake leading to how they’re everywhere

[justanotherweirdo]

I like to think the Anna's can 100% tell each other apart and Anna's husband/father can't. It'd also be funny if they all pronounced their name slightly differently

[aishi_rei]

*Anna….what are you, a counter guardian who appears in every era every time you travelled through time?*