Fire Emblem: Awakening Character Recruitment Guide: Chapter 9

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 avarage features and are perfect to experiment with customization. So save your seals for these characters.
ll 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 avarage features and are perfect to experiment with customization. So save your seals for these characters.

Chapter 9: Emmeryn

• Libra

Libra joins the party automatically so no need for some complicated things to do to get her to join. Libra comes with a special advanced class called Battle Monk which allows her to wield both staves and axes, as we already said in our classes guide. Having really low defense, it’s best not to use her in the frontline: the ability to wield axes can be put to good use to allow her finishing enemies in critical condition. Using a Battle Monk is a good way to make healers more useful during offensive phases.

• Tharja

Tharja is an optional dark mage character and to get her to join you simply need to get close to her with Chrom and speak with her: once the talking is over, she’ll join the battle. As a Dark Mage, she is more useful than standard mages since she can wield dark magic as well as all the other elements. At the same time she’s just perfect for support, giving some nice added effects during both offensive and defensice phase.