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.
Kjelle
To unlock Paralogue 8 you will have to give Sully a support relationship of S. To recruit Kjelle you will have to bring Chrom or Sully into the battle and let one of them talk with Kjelle by getting close to her. Once this is done, Kjelle will join your side during the battle itself. Kjelle is one of the most suited character for customization: she’s a pretty standard character when she joins you but she has a lot of starter classes to choose from when you start customizing her so you can do whatever you want with her. She’s also pretty good to experiment with a lot of different builds so if you have been saving up some seals up until now, you may want to use them and invest some time in customizing Kjelle. Any build will actually work quite decently for her so just go wild and do your thing.