Nimue

Nimue is a character in Xenoblade Chronicles 3. She was a military strategist and a mentor for Taion.

Appearance and personality
Nimue is a slender woman with purple hair tied in a ponytail and purple eyes. Nimue's hands and feet are covered with ice, and has a small ice horn in her left forehead. Nimue wears the white Agnian soldier outfit but has a miniskirt and a black breast plate. Her young appearance after being reborn is nearly identical to her previous incarnation, albeit with a shorter height and wears an early term Agnian uniform. Her term mark is on her inner forearm, close to the crook of her left elbow.

Lore

 * After Nimue died during the ambush by Colony 13, she is reborn at the Lost Colony as she is one of the Agnian soldiers that were born there. And with her being in 3rd term when Taion and the party arrives to Lost Colony, this means it has been at least 3 years passed after her death.
 * According to Isurd, in order to keep the fact that Nimue is not connected to a Flame Clock a secret, she requested a Nopon engineer to create a false Iris so that it makes a cosmetic Flame Clock appear in her eye.
 * Instead of using an Iris, Nimue prefers checking time with a pocket watch, which she later hands it over to Taion before sacrificing herself during the ambush by Colony 13.
 * Nimue has deep affection with Saffronia trees, and dreamt to go back to the Lost Colony to see its trees in full bloom.

As an NPC
A younger Nimue can be found at at the Lost Colony.

Affinity

 * Isurd
 * Stella

Trivia

 * There is an unused NPC icon for older Nimue, an unused placeholder blade icon for Nimue and a Chain Order portrait with Nimue's Japanese name on it in the files of Xenoblade Chronicles 3. This suggests she may have been at one point in development as a Hero character but was eventually scrapped.
 * Nimue and Ethel are the only two characters in  Xenoblade Chronicles 3 to first appear in their late term and then reappear in younger form.