Rathlyn

Rathlyn is the het ship between Rath and Lyn from the Fire Emblem fandom.

Lyn's tale
Lyn and Rath first meet at the Lycian city Araphen. Rath was working for the marquess of Araphen. Lyn was travelling to reach Caelin before that her grand-father died by being poisoning by his brother Lundgren. Lyn arrives in Araphen where the marquess has agree to help her but before she could see the marquess the town is attacked by Lundgren's men. An assassin sent by Lundgren try to attack Lyn but is killed by Rath. He say that he saved her because she was a Sacaean plainswoman. He introduce himself as Rath of the Kutolahand (a Sacaean tribe). They team up to save the marquess and the city. After defeating Lundgren's men, Lyn finally meet the marquess who refuse to help her because she is half-sacaean. She leave the Araphen with her allies and Rath joins them explaining that he left he service of Marquess Araphen after seeing that he was racist.

Rath joins Lyndis's legion. He help her to reach Caelin and to kill Lundgren. Lyn finally reunite with her grandfather. In the celebration following Lyn's return to Caelin, Rath slips out unseen.

Eliwood/Hector's tale
One year later Lyn go to a quest with Eliwood and Hector to stop the evil wizard Nergal. Rath has become a mercenary and was hired by the of House Ostia. They meet again at the ostian castle. Rath propose his help to Lyn, she accept and he join her army.

During the adventure they can have some supports together. In their first one Lyn ask to Rath if all the member of the Kutolahand tribe are as quiet as him. But he don't want to talk about that. In their second support Lyn express that she is worried for her grandfather who is at Caelin. She after ask him why he doesn't want to talk about his tribe and answered that he has left the tribe fifteen years ago. In their third support he explain that the tribe diviner has predict that Rath as the chieftain's son, had to leave to prevent disaster. The diviner explained to him that he was born for stopping a dark flame, consuming all. He also express the loneliness he had feel when he leave his tribe at 4. Lyn say that she want to stay with him.

They eventually kill Nergal and a fire dragon. If they had reach a A level support Lyn will ask to Hector to take Caelin under his protection after her grandfather's death and she will go to Sacae and reunite with Rath. They will had a daugther called Sue and live happily in the plains.

Fanon
This pairing is the only canon option for Rath. On A03 it's the second most popular pairing for Rath (behind Rath/Wil). It has only 7 fanfictions on A03 and it's one of the least popular pairing for Lyn on this webside. However this ship is quite popular on the fanart part of the fandom.

Due to the game system of multiple canon endings, the Rathlyn shipper has some friction with Elilyn, Hectorlyn, Lyn x Kent and sometimes Florilyn shippers. The Rathlyn shippers sometime argue that their pairing is "more canon" due to the fact that Lyn is the only romance option for Rath and that he has a daugther in Fire Emblem 6 (actually Rath can also has his child with a unknow woman). Those who criticize this ship often complain about the fact that Lyn and Rath support is more about Rath than Lyn. The fans in contrary consider that their support his a great characterisation for Rath character and that it's the ship that make more sense than the others options for Lyn.

The fanfictions and fanarts often show Lyn and Rath in Sacae sometime with their daugther Sue. The fanarts often depicts Lyn after her class promotion where she can use bow. Sometime the fanarts show them on horse or lying in the grass. Some of the fans of this pairing also ship Roysue since both pairing involve a lord and a nomad.

Since in Fire Emblem 6 Sue is an orphan it's presume that Rath and Lyn (if she married him) die between the two games.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Lyndis/Rath tag on A03

TUMBLR

Rathlyn posts on Tumblr