Summoner

Summoners are one of the promotions available for Shamans in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, the other one being Druid.

They can summon Phantom minions to fight for them and they are also quite skilled in using Dark Magic themselves. They can also use staves. In Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, there are two possible summoners, Ewan, who starts as a Pupil, and Knoll, who starts as a Shaman. There is only one other class that can summon phantoms, which is Necromancer, unquie to Lyon. As their level goes higher the phantoms they summon become more powerful.

Summoners were origanally introduced to the game for two reasons,one to give Dark Magic Users a second choice of promotion (seeing as The Sacred Stones used a branched promotion system), and also to create a new dark magic Class. Seeing as only Shamans and Druids could use Dark Magic Tomes (and a few unquie classes: Archsage, Necromancer, etc...).

Statistically Summoners are inferior to Druids in their stats and growths. This can be attributed to the fact Summoners have more options in battle, due to the Summon Command. Most people choose to promote Knoll to Summoner (as opposed to Ewan) so as not to ruin Ewans massive potential stat growths.

Promotion
They are the promoted forms of Shamans and so cannot be promoted themselves. To promote a Shaman into a summoner, the item Guiding Ring is necessary.

Radiant Dawn
In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn a single Summoner makes an appearence, although he is not playable. This Summoner is Izuka a terrible man who has a deep rasist hate of the Laguz.

The odd things about Izuka is that, insted of summoning Phantoms like Summoners in previous games Izuka Summons Feral Laguz. Feral Laguz are Laguz that have been fed the feral drug (created by Izuka) which makes them have to stay in Animal form permently and causes them to go insane. It has been speculated that the Feral Laguz summonded by Izuka are the lost souls of previously killed Feral Laguz who he summons to fight for him.

Izuka also can summon four Feral Laguz per turn, this as aposed to the single Phantom previous summoners could summon. The four Feral laguz apear on either side of him, if a Laguz is alrady standing beside him he can not summon a Laguz to that space.

Like previous Summoners Izuka uses Staves and Dark Mgaic aswell.