Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave recruitment guide

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave uses gifts, support, renown, negotiations and paralogues to expand your army. This spoiler-heavy guide explains recruitment, support growth, late-game allies and unit merging.

Recruitment is available only during Part 1. Requirements can change according to your Flame Lord: Cai, Dietrich, Leda or Theodora. Some characters are unavailable on particular routes, while characters recruited on one route remain available on another.

How recruitment works

Give a character a gift first to unlock the Recruit dialogue. You must then satisfy the required support and renown levels for your current Flame Lord. Some recruits also require a negotiation, a request, a specific item or a paralogue.

Paralogues begin appearing in Chapter 10 and remain available for a limited time. Characters who appear unavailable can sometimes join during Part 3 if you complete their Part 1 paralogue. Those recruits can fight, but may not appear in story-focused scenes.

The paralogue-linked characters include Anatolia, Bertrand, Cai, Dietrich, Leda, Orchel, Talimun and Theodora. Completing each Flame Lord’s paralogue is the quickest way to gain access without completing every route.

How to raise support

Renown rises through campaign progress and side quests. Support improves through the following activities:

• Link attacks
• Support actions and combat buffs
• Training together
• Gifts
• Meals
• Temple services
• Watching a theatre performance
• Using the thermea

For meals, temple services, theatre visits and the thermea, select the Flame Lord whose route you are playing if you want to meet that character’s recruitment requirement.

Part 1 recruitable characters

The following checklist includes every character listed in the recruitment guide. A dash means no extra negotiation or paralogue is listed; teammate means the character begins in that route’s party. Support and renown thresholds vary between Flame Lords.

• Alexandra: Cai 2/7; Dietrich 3/8; Leda 3/10; Theodora 3/10.
• Benditz: Dietrich 3/9; Leda 2/7; Theodora 3/7; Cai unavailable.
• Bonaventure: Theodora teammate; unavailable elsewhere.
• Buccar: clear Leda’s paralogue; Leda 3/8; Theodora teammate; Theodora-route threshold 3/8.
• Catania: Cai 3/10; Dietrich 1/8; Leda 1/2; Theodora 3/7.
• Dadao: deliver two kothar gar fish; Cai 3/7; Dietrich 3/10; Leda 2/5; Theodora 2/5.
• Dante: pay 8,000 gold; Cai 3/10; Dietrich 2/8; Leda 3/10; Theodora 3/6.
• Diego: clear Orchel’s paralogue; Cai 3/10; Dietrich 3/10; Leda 3/8; Theodora 2/8.
• Esmeralda: complete her request; Cai 2/7; Dietrich teammate; Leda 3/6; Theodora 3/9.
• Fabio: clear Dietrich’s paralogue; Dietrich teammate; Leda 3/9; unavailable to Cai and Theodora.
• Fianna: pay 3,000 gold; Cai 3/8; Dietrich 3/7; Leda 3/5; Theodora 3/9.
• Gaitz: clear Bertrand’s paralogue and reach Chapter 12; Dietrich 3/10.
• Goliath: deliver three giants’ meat; Cai 3/7; Dietrich 3/6; Leda 3/10; Theodora 3/9.
• Guzran: Cai 1/2; Dietrich 3/8; Leda 1/3; Theodora 3/8.
• Halvin: deliver 10 dates; Cai 3/5; Dietrich 3/9; Leda 3/10; Theodora 3/7.
• Inyoni: pay 3,000 gold; Cai and Dietrich 3/8; Leda and Theodora 1/7 and 1/9.
• Io: pay 1,500 with Leda or 800 with another character; Cai 3/10; Dietrich 2/3; Leda 1/6; Theodora 3/10.
• Jasmine: pay 500 with Leda or 2,000 otherwise.
• Jester: complete his request.
• Kiroc: deliver three bottles of pure water.
• Lilian: pay 5,000 gold; Theodora teammate.
• Loretta: deliver three iron swords.
• Ludia: complete her request.
• Lysander: deliver five iron spears; Theodora teammate.
• Majide: speak to him three times and say you want to recruit him.
• Mikaela: pay 3,000 gold; Dietrich teammate.
• Mu: deliver three glirmosa; Leda teammate.
• Nezha: deliver three sandworm meat.
• Ninae: deliver one paradise fish.
• Noctula: Cai 1/4; Dietrich 1/6; Leda 3/8; Theodora 1/3.
• Nuzzuo: deliver three iron bows.
• Nydine: deliver two bronze axes.
• Olympia: complete her request; Leda teammate.
• Peppe: clear Bertrand’s paralogue.
• Peter: deliver one rare ginji; Cai teammate.
• Seteth: complete his request.
• Sha Lan: clear Anatolia’s paralogue and answer her questions correctly.
• Simon: play heads and tails, choosing tails to win.
• Sirocco: complete her request; Leda teammate.
• Sofia: Cai 3/9; Dietrich 3/9; Leda 3/7; Theodora 1/2.
• Tialla: clear Cai’s paralogue and deliver 3,000 gold; Cai teammate.
• Tobias: Theodora teammate.
• Ultand: complete his request; Cai teammate.
• Ursula: clear Talimun’s paralogue.
• Yang Jie: answer his questions correctly.
• Zarcone: refuse the 10,000-gold and 1,000-gold demands, paying only 500 gold.

Part 2 and Part 3 recruitment

Some late-game characters join automatically or require earlier choices. Complete the relevant Part 1 mission before advancing.

• Anatolia: complete “Queen of the Erased”; Part 3, Salvation Arc.
• Aswan: keep her alive in Part 2; joins automatically in Part 3.
• Bertrand: complete “Friendly Match with Bridgid’s King”; Part 3.
• Cai: complete “Great Escape”; Part 3.
• Centurio: complete “Rescue Centurio”; Part 3.
• Creek: complete “My Late Sister’s Accessory” in Part 1 and defeat him in Part 2; Part 2.
• Dietrich: complete “Sealed-Off Past”; Part 3.
• Hong Hua: joins automatically; Part 3.
• Klapka: keep him alive in his first Part 3 mission; Part 3.
• Leda: complete “Divisionary Tactics”; Part 3.
• Nathan: recruit Creek and use him to defeat Nathan in Part 2, Chapter 3.
• Orchel: complete “Orchel’s Regreat”; Part 3.
• Tahonia: keep her alive in Part 2; joins in Part 3.
• Talimun: complete “Secret of the Vansihed Carriage”; Part 3.
• Theodora: complete “Missing Brave-Warriors Statuet”; Part 3.
• Troy: joins automatically in Part 3.

How to merge characters

After completing Part 3, Section 1 of the Salvation Arc, visit the Obelisk Chamber and interact with the Shrine of Causality. Select Merge Causality, choose a unit marked with the yellow double-arrow and pay 300 karma shards.

When the same character has been recruited on multiple routes, choose the version you want to use in Part 3. Merging transfers the best stats and skill levels from the other version. For example, a Sofia trained to ride horses on Leda’s route can transfer that riding progress to a Sofia from Theodora’s route.

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