Dread Fighter

Dread Fighter (魔戦士 Masenshi) is the third tier class in the Mercenary line in Fire Emblem Gaiden. Dread Fighters possess a high amount of magical Resistance, Hit Points and Strength. Characters of this class can promote to a Villager, which allows looping of the promotion chain.

The class later reappears in Fire Emblem: Awakening as a prize for completing Alm's DLC chapter. It is a male-only class, as a counterpart to the DLC female-only class, Bride.

Fire Emblem: Awakening

 * HP:80
 * Str:42
 * Mag:38
 * Skl:40
 * Spd:41
 * Lck:45
 * Def:39
 * Res:43

Fire Emblem Gaiden

 * Geyse - The leader of his pirates and the major antagonist of Chapter 3 in Celica's route.
 * Saizor
 * Possible Promotions for: Deen, Savor, Kamui, Cliff, Robin, Grey, and Atlas

Fire Emblem: Awakening

 * Alm (DLC)

Name
Dread Fighter have undergone many names in fan translations, being named as Demon Fighter, Magic Fighter, or even Slayer depending on the fan translations. This is due to the Japanese word for "Magic" and "Demon" being interchangeable, similar translation issues were undergone with the Mage Dragons. Based off the Dread Fighter's high resistance, its likely that "Magic Fighter" was the intended meaning.

Trivia

 * In Fire Emblem: Awakening, the Dread Fighter class is treated as a base class in terms of its Experience Points calculation when fighting and defeating other units, despite the class having the stat caps of an advanced class. This enables a unit promoted to the Dread Fighter class to gain levels (and therefore stats) at a much faster rate than other advanced classes when fighting units of the same caliber, while allowing them to be on-par with advanced classes stat-wise.
 * Additionally, a unit promoted to the Dread Fighter class may only reclass into a base class. However, like the Villager, Manakete, Taguel, Lodestar, Conqueror (class), Bride, and Dancer classes, the Dread Fighter has a level cap of 30, increasing the likelihood that the stat cap will be reached and reducing the need to re-class to achieve the maximum stats for the character.