Fire Emblem: Awakening Character Recruitment Guide: Chapter 8

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 8: The Grimleal

Nowi

Nowi is recruited automatically so no need for some complicated things to do before and during battle. Despite her childish appearence, Nowi is quite a useful character once transformed: she’s just like Panne in this sense and she’s perfect for frontline fighting. In the transformed form she has excellent attack, defense and speed, meaning that not only she will be able to defend herself without any kind of support, but also inflict tons of damage during counterattacks. As a support character, she’s just as good. To be honest there’s very little difference from Panne stats wise so the choice is yours on who to use. You can also use both and watch your enemies fall as they try to take them on.

Gregor

Gregor is recruited automatically and honestly, doing anything to make him join your army wouldn’t have been worthy: he’s decent in his starter class but he’s also quite unremarkable. He’s pretty avarage in everything so you can customize him any way you want. At the same time the extra effort could be used for some better characters so in the end he’s probably gonna get skipped. Joining your army kinda late doesn’t make his situation better as well.