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.
Say’Ri
To recruit Say’Ri make sure you bring Chrom close to her and talk: once the dialogue is done, she’ll join your army. Say’Ri is actually quite good: she starts with an advanced class and she’s just pretty much ready to join you in story battles without requiring any type of training. You can consider her as the female version of Lon’qu: deadly right from the start. She’s pretty quick so she’ll attack almsot everyone twice, she’s starts with a decent sword proficiency and she’s also pretty good as a support and for pairing up. With an advanced class geared towards dishing out some serious damage you can’t go wrong with her. If you wish to experiment with her, make sure you pick classes which will benefit from her speed stat bonus and sword proficiency: I advise you to leave her in her starter class and start building her from there and just switch classes to learn some skills which will augment her best features