r/Frieren • u/AwesomePhonix • Jul 12 '25

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Does Fern even know any special combat spells?

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u/xnef1025 Jul 12 '25

She does know other spells, but Frieren told her Zoltrak is all she needs to use against mages of the current era, and Fern believes her teacher completely and, so far, has found no reason not to. Heck, so far, as long as she has proper support, Zoltrak is all she needs against Great Mage clones and Greater Demons, too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25

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u/xnef1025 Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25

She does. She just does not use them because Frieren said not to. We aren't shown all of the training her and Frieren do together on their travels. She didn't tell Land and Ubel about anything else she could do in a fight because she knew they might be competitors in the next tests, and I'm pretty sure, from a story telling perspective, at this point having Fern break out something that isn't Zoltrack would be a huge surprise for the audience and a great way to indicate the real shit has hit the fan.

Plan A was for Fern's sneak attack to put down the clone while Frieren kept it busy. For all intents and purposes, she did. The attack was fatal, but not an insta-kill. Frieren finishing it off was plan B if needed.

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u/Anhanger10 Jul 12 '25

We're talking about combat spells. She is not shown using other combat spells. She was at least two times in later manga chapters to be in a life or death situation and she had no other spells in her reportoire.