One of the main focuses of recent Fire Emblem games is the possibility to recruit a lot of characters for your army. Fire Emblem: Awakening is not so different in this regard, with a lot of characters available for recruitment. As always, many of the characters can join you automatically but for some others you will have to take specific steps to make them join like deploying a specific character and make them talk with the possible recruit. With the many advanced classes available in the game you may want to recruit as many characters as possible to create the most diverse army: some classes are only useful in specific situations and that’s where the many characters of the game will come in. In this guide we will be listing all the characters available, both automatic recruitments and optionals, with small descriptions for each character: a lot of the automatically recruited characters often have something they’re really good at and I always recommend to not change their class to a different type. You will have plenty of occasions to do so with the optional characters: unlike the story ones, they have some more average features and are perfect to experiment with customization. So save your seals for these characters.
Noire
To unlock Paralogue 15 you will have to give Tharja a Support relationship of S. To recruit Noire you will have to talk to her with Chrom or Tharja: once the talking is done, she’ll join your army. To be completely honest she’s not a too great character: she joins you in a really basic form, without any unique weapon or skill. She’s an enjoyable character personality wise but we’re looking for some characters good enough to enter the fight without any kind of training. To use Noire in Story Battles you’ll have to train her a lot: if you’re looking for a character to customize or experiment with she’s just perfect. If you get her late in the game, there may not be enough reasons to invest some time in her making her good enough for story battles: there are a lot of other characters who join you ready for main story battles.