This page is about the class. For the process acquiring new units, seeRecruitment.

TheRecruit (Japanese:新人兵士Traineesoldier) is atrainee class, exclusive to a single character –Amelia – inFire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. Described as young lance-wielding foot soldiers, freshly recruited into the army and new to fighting, the class in and of itself is rather weak and limited, but has the potential toclass change to a wider spectrum of classes and, being that it initially class changes into otherwise basic classes, gives its constituent units a greater amount of time to gain levels and stat increases.

Unlike normal classes, the Recruit'slevel cap is 10, whereupon they will stop gaining experience and will change class at the beginning of the next map'spreparations screen. After promoting, their level and promotion progression will act as normal for a basic class. By default, the Recruit has two promotion options,Cavalier orKnight, giving them access to three potential advanced classes depending on their chosen basic class:Paladin,Great Knight andGeneral.

After completing bothEirika andEphraim's game modes, Recruits gain a third promotion option: to stay as a Recruit after promotion, a state here denoted asRecruit (2). The Recruit (2) acts like a basic class and levels and promotes as normal; it has the option to either promote to Paladin, or to again stay as a Recruit. This last version of the Recruit, here denoted asRecruit (3), can still only use lances, but is compensated somewhat by possessing an innate 15% critical hit bonus.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Sacred Stones (1)	13	3	--	0	1	0	0	1	4	6	E
The Sacred Stones (2)	18	5	--	3	3	0	6	0	5	6	D
The Sacred Stones (3)	23	6	--	6	11	0	7	6	6	6	C

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Sacred Stones (1)	60	20	--	20	20	30	20	20	15	20	C
The Sacred Stones (2)	60	20	--	20	20	30	20	20	15	20	A
The Sacred Stones (3)	60	23	--	30	29	30	22	26	15	20	S
The Sacred Stones (3,Japanese)	60	28	--	30	29	30	27	27	15	20	S

Miscellaneous data

Class growth rates

Class change

The Sacred Stones

Trainee-like class	Promotion method	Base class
Recruit	Reachinglevel 10, and choosing at beginning of next battle.	Knight or Cavalier or Recruit (2)
Promotion choice criteria: The player can freely choose; Recruit (2) is only available after clearing the game once on both Eirika and Ephraim's routes.

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Recruit (2)	Using aKnight Crest orMaster Seal after reachinglevel 10.	Paladin or Recruit (3)
Promotion choice criteria: The player can freely choose.

Playable Recruits

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Trivia

• Although only one recruit has appeared in the entirety of theFire Emblem series, the descriptions of the class talks about "recruits".

Etymology and other languages

This article is part ofProject Classes, a project focused in writing articles for every class present in theFire Emblem series.