Pegasus Knight


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The Pegasus Knight (ペガサスナイト Pegasasu Naito) is a usually female-only unit class who fights on a flying Pegasus mount with a Lance (although, in Ankoku Ryu to Hikari no Tsurugi and Genealogy of the Holy War, they are able to use Swords as well). They have appeared in every Fire Emblem game up to date. These characters have the ability to fly over normally impassable terrain for long distances, a natural ability to fear should you be facing air units. Pegasus Knights tend to have very low Defense and HP, making them a little more fragile than other characters. Their high Speed is their saving grace, easily avoiding attacks. It seems, game-wise at least, that Pegasus Knights live in cold places with lots of snow.

In Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, they are the promoted version of the Pegasus Rider class.

In Fire Emblem: Fates, the class is renamed Pegasus Warrior (天馬武者 Tenma musha) and is a unisex class. It is a Hoshidan class.

Combat
The Pegasus Knight may seem fragile, but they are one of the most useful classes to have on the field. Their ability to fly, giving them advantages over opponents, and the ability to use the rescue command in later Fire Emblem titles allows them to be used as a type of transport for ground units. When attacking, it is always important to pay attention to your enemies, as Pegasus Knights are weak against classes that use bows. However, they tend to have decent Resistance in most games of the series and often at times their high speeds allow them to dodge very efficiently. Because of this, Pegasus Knights can avoid attacks from bow-wielders if trained properly. While Pegasus Knights tend to focus on Speed more than Defense, Defense is also present which makes them less fragile than other classes with low Defense.

Promotions
The Pegasus Knight was originally promoted into the Wyvern Rider, but these classes were eventually separated into two different classes. However, Pegasus Knights can promote to Wyvern Knight in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. Currently, the Pegasus Knight promotes into the Falcon Knight in most titles. In Fire Emblem: Awakening, a new class has been introduced entitled Dark Flier promotes from Pegasus Knight and allows the class to ride atop a black Pegasus and wield Lances and Tomes. In Fire Emblem: Fates they can promote to the Golden-Kite Warrior which gives them access to Bows while flying on the mythical bird.

Weakness
Pegasus Knights have a weakness to bows. They can use Javelins to compensate for their low defenses against them. They are also vulnerable to wind magic, but given their rather good Resistance growths, this becomes less and less of an issue as they level up. In the GBA games, Pegasus Knights almost as a rule have a terrible constitution stat, and will have to wield light weapons to avoid losing out on their excellent speed stats. This weakness mainly surfaces among generic enemy Pegasus Knights, who often come into battle wielding Steel Lances that over-encumber them so severely that even armored units, such as Hector, can double them.

Uniform
Characters of the Pegasus Knight class are often depicted in a tunic, sometimes they are wearing a miniskirt that just covers their hips underneath the tunics. If they are not wearing a miniskirt underneath the tunic, the tunic then becomes hip length and most of the time have a slit either side of the tunic from the top of their waist to the lower half of their hips. Although sometimes the slits are not present such as in Florina's artwork. They wear a white belt with beige edges around their waist which sometimes has a sheath to carry their swords in. (as seen here in Shiida's artwork)

They do not wear leggings but most are shown with knee high or thigh-highsocks socks and boots. Although some like Misha's artwork depicts them with leggings.

Often they wear arm-length or wrist-length gloves and some are fingerless gloves.

Some have a headband tied around their head.

For armor they wear a breastplate, shoulder guards, and a round helmet.

In Awakening, their belt has an item pouch attached to the rear, which they lose upon promotion.

Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi/Mystery of the Emblem

 * Shiida - The princess of Talys and later Marth's fiancee.
 * Palla - Pegasus knight of Medon and member of the Whitewings.
 * Catria - Pegasus knight of Medon and member of the Whitewings.
 * Est - Pegasus knight of Medon and member of the Whitewings, later the wife of Abel.

Gaiden

 * Clair - Knight of Zofia and younger sister of Clive.

Genealogy of the Holy War

 * Ferry - One of the four Pegasus Knights of Silesse in the first generation.
 * Fee - Silessean Pegasus Knight and the daughter of Ferry in the second generation.
 * Femina - Silessean Pegasus Knight who takes Fee's spot if Ferry does not have children.

Thracia 776

 * Misha - Mercenary Pegasus Knight from Silesse and the daughter of Deet'var.
 * Promotion for: Karin

TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga

 * Mahter - Pegasus Knight of Salia.
 * Frau - Pegasus Knight of Salia and younger sister of Mahter.
 * Verna - Pegasus Knight of Salia and older sister of Mahter.
 * Promotion for: Sasha

Binding Blade

 * Shanna - Ilian Pegasus Knight in training serving under Dieck.
 * Thite - Ilian Pegasus Knight serving alongside Klein.

Rekka no Ken

 * Florina - Ilian Pegasus Knight who is close friends with Lyn.
 * Fiora - Ilian Pegasus Knight and commander of Ilia's 5th Wing of Pegasus Knights.
 * Farina - Ilian Pegasus Knight and member of the Strongwings, Ilia's 3rd Wing of Pegasus Knights.

The Sacred Stones

 * Vanessa - Frelian Knight and younger sister of Syrene.
 * Tana - The princess of Frelia, trained by Syrene.

Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn

 * Marcia - Knight of Begnion, later part of the Crimean Royal Knights.

Awakening

 * Sumia - A member of Chrom's Shepherds and a member of Ylisse's pegasus knights.
 * Cordelia - A member of Ylisse's pegasus knights.
 * Cynthia - Sumia's daughter from the future.

Fates

 * Hinoka - The first born princess of Hoshido and older sister of the Avatar.
 * Subaki - A male Pegasus Warrior in service of Sakura. He is notably the first male playable Pegasus Warrior in the Fire Emblem series.
 * Matoi - The daughter of Subaki.
 * Shigure - The son of Azura.

Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari No Tsurugi

 * HP: 16
 * Str: 4
 * Skl: 5
 * Spd: 11
 * Lck: 0
 * Def: 6
 * Res: 0


 * Wlv: Sword / Lance: 9

Fire Emblem: Gaiden

 * HP: 26
 * Str: 8
 * Skl: 3
 * Spd: 9
 * Lck: 0
 * Def: 7
 * Res: 7

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem

 * HP: 16
 * Str: 5
 * Skl: 5
 * Spd: 7
 * Lck: 0
 * Def: 6
 * Res: 6


 * Wlv: Lance: 9

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

 * HP: 35
 * Str: 7
 * Mag: 0
 * Skl: 7
 * Spd: 12
 * Lck: 0
 * Def: 5
 * Res: 7


 * Wlv: Sword / Lance: 9

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776

 * HP: 18
 * Str: 4 (Mounted) / 3 (Dismounted)
 * Mag: 5
 * Skl: 5 (Mounted) / 4 (Dismounted)
 * Spd: 8 (Mounted) / 6 (Dismounted)
 * Lck: 0
 * Def: 3 (Mounted) / 2 (Dismounted)
 * Build: 5
 * Weapon Rank: Lance: D (Mounted only) / Sword: E (Dismounted only)

Fire Emblem: Binding Blade / Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken / Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

 * HP: 14
 * Str: 4
 * Skl: 5
 * Spd: 5
 * Lck: 0
 * Def: 3
 * Res: 2

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

 * HP: 14
 * Str: 4
 * Mag: 0
 * Skl: 4
 * Spd: 8
 * Lck: 0
 * Def: 3
 * Res: 2

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

 * HP: 16
 * Str: 5
 * Mag: 0
 * Skl: 6
 * Spd: 9
 * Lck: 0
 * Def: 6
 * Res: 8

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

 * HP: 16
 * Str: 4
 * Mag: 2
 * Skl: 5
 * Spd: 7
 * Lck: 0
 * Def: 5
 * Res: 6

Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo ~Hikari to Kage no Eiyū~

 * HP: 16
 * Str: 4
 * Mag: 2
 * Skl: 5
 * Spd: 7
 * Lck: 0
 * Def: 7
 * Res: 0

Fire Emblem: Awakening

 * HP: 16
 * Str: 4
 * Mag: 2
 * Skl: 7
 * Spd: 8
 * Lck: 0
 * Def: 4
 * Res: 6

Fire Emblem: Fates

 * HP: 16
 * Str: 3
 * Mag: 0
 * Skl: 5
 * Spd: 7
 * Lck: 4
 * Def: 2
 * Res: 6

Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi

 * HP: 52
 * Str: 20
 * Skl: 20
 * Spd: 20
 * Lck: 20
 * Def: 20
 * Res: 20


 * Wlv: Sword / Lance: 20

Fire Emblem: Gaiden

 * HP: 52
 * Str: 40
 * Skl: 40
 * Spd: 40
 * Lck: 40
 * Def: 40
 * Res: 40

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem

 * HP: 52
 * Str: 20
 * Skl: 20
 * Spd: 20
 * Lck: 20
 * Def: 20
 * Res: 20
 * Wlv: Lance: 20

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

 * HP: 80
 * Str: 22
 * Mag: 15
 * Skl: 22
 * Spd: 27
 * Lck: 30
 * Def: 20
 * Res: 22
 * Weapon Rank: Sword: B Lance: B

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776

 * HP: 80
 * Mag: 20
 * Str: 20
 * Skl: 20
 * Spd: 20
 * Lck: 20
 * Def: 20
 * Build: 20
 * Weapon Rank: Lance: A (Mounted only) Sword: A (Dismounted only)

Trivia

 * In Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem the enemy Pegasus Knights appeared to be male, making them the first known male Pegasus Knights in the series. In Fire Emblem: Fates, the class has become unisex and Subaki is the first male Pegasus unit under the player's control.
 * In Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken the enemy Pegasus Knights appear female and are otherwise indistinguishable from allied Pegasus Knights, except that they use the male mounted formula for AID, giving them the highest AID of any unit in the game, 20.
 * Pegasus Knights are generally female due to the myth of the unicorn, which states that only pure-hearted maidens could approach Pegasi. Pegasi within the series alternate between being traditional pegasi or an alicorn/winged unicorn.