Wyvern Rider

The Wyvern Rider (ドラゴンナイト Doragon naito lit. Dragon Knight in the Japanese versions and Dracoknight in the English version of Radiant Dawn and Shadow Dragon) is a wyvern-mounted combat physical class that recurrently appears across the Fire Emblem Series, beginning from Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi. This class features warriors soaring into battle atop the backs of Wyverns, and are usually armed with Lances and/or Axes as their primary weapons of choice.

History in the Series
In its original inception in Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi and Mystery of the Emblem, the Dracoknight class is the promoted form of the Pegasus Knight class, and is thus unable to promote any further.

Beginning from Genealogy of the Holy War, Dragon Knights are cleanly separated from the Pegasus Knight class, with the Dragonmaster class introduced and instituted to be the promoted form of the class. Like its predecessors, the Dragon Knight class wields Swords and Lances as its weapons of choice in this installment.

Dragon Knights are the promoted form of the Dragon Rider class in Thracia 776. Eda is the only member of the Dragon Rider class, acting as the wyvern equivalent of a standard Trainee class.

In TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga, the Dragon Knight class, like its original iteration, is once again intertwined with the Pegasus Knight class by acting as its promoted form. The Dragon Knight class also functions as the promoted form of a Commando Knight named Raffin, owing to the plot establishing him as being originally a wyvern—riding combatant.

In Binding Blade and its prequel Rekka no Ken, the Wyvern Rider class loses the ability to wield Swords, only gaining it when it promotes into the Wyvern Lord class.

In The Sacred Stones, Wyvern Riders are further given the option to promote into Wyvern Knights alongside Wyvern Lords, a class granted the devastating Pierce skill.

The Wyvern Rider class is redubbed Dracoknight ( 竜騎士ドラゴンナイト Doragon naito) in Radiant Dawn and promotes into the Dragonmaster class. This title is credited as being the pioneer of the class being outfitted with the Axe as its sole weapon of choice instead of the Lance.

In Shadow Dragon and Shin Monshō no Nazo, remakes of the Archanea Series, the Dracoknight class is re-instituted as the main promoted form of the Pegasus Knight class.

Dracoknights are again referred to as Wyvern Riders in Awakening. This version of the class is further given the option to promote into the unique Griffon Rider alongside Wyvern Lord.

In Fates, the Wyvern Rider class is treated as a Nohrian class, and is further given the option to promote into Malig Knights, a class that arms Tomes and Axes as its weapons of choice. The class' Hoshidan counterpart is the Sky Knight.

Combat
Like all other flying units, Wyvern Riders are units that stand out for not just high Movement, but also the ability to traverse terrain that is normally impassable. Wyvern Riders typically excel in HP, Strength and Defense, and thus make for fairly decent combatants against regular enemy units.

Wyvern Riders do, however, suffer from having easily exploitable weaknesses. The most glaring of these is that of the fact that in most of their iterations, they are vulnerable to attacks inflicted by Bows and Wind Magic (save for Radiant Dawn, where they are weak to Thunder Magic and no longer vulnerable to bows). Apart from this, they are also vulnerable to dragon-slaying weapons like the Wyrmslayer. Given these facts, it is thus common to charge Wyvern Riders forward into areas where there are few bow or magic users and hold them back when bow users are abundant. However, these weaknesses can be nullified by placing Iote's Shield, Delphi Shield or Fili Shield into their inventories, all of which are imbued with blessings that guard their holders from sustaining bonus damage from weapons effective against them.

In WiFi battles, Dracoknights are occasionally used due to their strong Defense allowing them to survive being attacked by Brave Sword-wielding Swordmasters. However, they can still be killed one-on-one by Berserkers. The main reason Dracoknights are used, despite this weakness, is because of their unparalleled movement; 10 base movement (12 with Boots), with no terrain hindrance, gives them the best scouting ability of any unit (tied with Falcon Knights). However, because they are weak to bows, a squad is usually limited to one Dracoknight only. Several tactics rely on the Dracoknight's ability to embark on reconnaissance missions to determine the strength of immediate foes. Their weakness to Berserkers is usually avoided by actively scouting a Berserker and killing them preemptively.

Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi

 * Minerva - The Princess of Medon.
 * Michalis - The Prince of Medon and brother of Minerva and Maria.
 * Promotion for: Caeda, Palla, Catria, and Est

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem

 * Rumel - A Medon rebel serving under Rucke.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

 * Papilion - A Dragon Knight of Thracia.
 * Altena - Daughter of Prince Quan of Leonster and Ethlyn and the sister of Leif.

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776

 * Dean - Thracian Dragon Knight assigned as Linoan's bodyguard.
 * Promotion for: Eda

TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga

 * Reshe - Princess of Canaan.
 * Simon - Leader of Canaan's Condor Squad.
 * Marco - Member of the Condor Squad who rescues Leteena.
 * Toms - Member of the Condor Squad.
 * Philip - Member of the Condor Squad.
 * Andrew - Member of the Condor Squad.
 * Possible Promotion for: Sasha, Raffin, Mahter, Frau, and Verna

Fire Emblem: Binding Blade

 * Milady - The elder sister of Zeiss, a renowned captain in Bern's army. Loyal to Princess Guinivere.
 * Zeiss - The younger brother of Milady.

Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken

 * Heath - An honorable knight who deserted the army of Bern.

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

 * Cormag - A proud knight who admires his brother, an Imperial General of Grado.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn

 * Jill - A girl from Daein, who is the daughter of Shiharam.

TearRing Saga: Berwick Saga

 * Larentia - A Dragon Knight of Peshire.

Fire Emblem Awakening

 * Cherche - The former vassal of Virion's from Valm.
 * Gerome - Cherche's son from the future.

Fire Emblem Fates

 * Beruka - A Nohrian soldier under Camilla's command.
 * Percy - Arthur's son