The Brigand (さんぞく or 山賊 Sanzoku, also known as Bandit), is a combat physical class of common enemies in the Fire Emblem series and TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga. Wielding Axes as their sole weapon of choice, Brigands are often encountered in the early stages of most games. Despite being present in a majority of the games within the series, Brigands rarely are a playable class.
History in the Series[edit | edit source]
While the class does not appear in Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, there are enemy Fighters that act as mountain bandits in the story.
In their original inception in Gaiden, Brigands act as an enemy-only class that is used by criminal characters. They are the first enemies encountered within the game.
Brigands return in Mystery of the Emblem with the same purpose as enemy axe users. Brigands reuse Fighter sprites, but have higher stats. Brigands are in the criminal class category, and thus are weak to the Ladyblade.
In Genealogy of the Holy War, Brigands remain an enemy only class, but gain a new purpose within the series. Brigands now operate on the sole purpose of plundering and looting Villages for personal benefit. Sending a unit to defeat them, and pay visits to Villages are necessary to ensuring that they do not succeed in their devious schemes.
In Thracia 776, Brigands are known as Mountain Thieves (マウンテンシーフ Maunten shīfu), serving much the same purpose as their predecessors. For the first time in the series, the class is made playable, taking the form of Marty, a subordinate of Dagdar. In this title, Mountain Thieves are able to promote into Warriors.
In TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga, the Brigand class is enemy-only, and serves the same purpose as its non-playable predecessors.
In The Binding Blade, the Brigand class is yet again made playable, taking the form of Gonzalez. The class promotes into the Berserker class in this title. The class is thenceforth rendered an enemy-only class in the rest of its appearances in the series.
While Brigands remain enemy-exclusive in The Blazing Blade and The Sacred Stones, their ability to promote into Berserkers remains in place from The Binding Blade. In The Sacred Stones, Brigands can alternatively choose to promote into Warriors, giving them the same promotion options as Pirates.
In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Bandits promote into Berserkers, although none are playable without hacking. Their promotion gains are +3 in every stat except Magic and Resistance.
Bandits appear again in the direct sequel Radiant Dawn, but do not promote as the Berserker class is absent.
In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the Brigand (ブリガンド Burigando) class is a potential class path for playable characters. A Commoner or Noble unit must be at least Lv. 10 and have an Axe Skill Level of C or Higher with an Intermediate Seal during the Certification Exam for this optional class.
Brigands are an enemy exclusive class in TearRing Saga: Berwick Saga. They are joined by Snow Brigands, and Barbarians (known as Sand Brigands). They often have thievery related skills.
In Vestaria Saga I, the Brigand is known as the Ruffian. It is an enemy-only class. There are two variants of this class, the Mountaineer, which can traverse mountains and the Chief Thief, which has higher stats and can wield Swords (though none of the Chief Thieves in the game come with Swords). The Chief Thief variant became playable in The Holy Sword of Silvanister.
Overview[edit | edit source]
Combat[edit | edit source]
The main characteristics that brigands have are high HP and Strength, only offset by their low Skill and Defense (Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 is an exception where the only notable brigand, Marty, has low strength and high defense). This stat distribution means that in combat situations, brigands often have a difficult time hitting their enemies (due to the low skill). However, if they do land successful hits, they are capable of inflicting considerable amounts of damage. When attacked, they often sustain tremendous damage themselves due to their relatively low defense, although their high HP helps immensely in countering this, much like Fighters. They are also able to cross peaks and mountains like Berserkers, but not water.
Brigands are known for their ability to destroy Villages, a trait which they share with the Thief and Pirate classes. During the enemy phase, if a brigand unit ends its turn on a village entrance, the village will be destroyed, and any item that could have been gained from the village will be lost. This can be prevented by visiting the village with any ally unit before it gets destroyed. Fittingly, brigands often appear as reinforcements near villages in order to incentivize the player visiting the village as soon as possible.
Most games with a sword-using Lord have the player fight brigands as the most common units in early stages, due to the Weapon Triangle advantage and their generally low hit rate.
Some enemy brigands in Thracia 776 possess the Steal skill, being the one of the few non-thief class/promotion to ever utilise this ability.
In Fire Emblem Gaiden, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Pirates are rolled into this class, with the Bandit class being assigned to both land- and seafaring ruffians.
In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the class is freely able to be reclassed into granted that the unit passes the Certification Exam. Though only an Intermediate class, the Brigand is an essential class for most physical based units to reclass into as soon as possible as it has the highly coveted Death Blow skill as a Mastery skill, which increases that unit's Strength by 6 when they initiate combat, granting them even greater power.
In-Game[edit | edit source]
Base Stats[edit | edit source]
HP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Mov | Con | Wt | Wlv | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FE2 | 26 | 7 | - | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | - | - | Axe |
FE3 | 24 | 5 | - | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | - | - | Axe ? |
FE4 | 35 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | - | - | ![]() |
FE5 | 22/24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | - | 6 | 9 | - | ![]() |
TS | 25 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | - | 4 | - | - | ![]() |
FE6 | 20 | 5 | - | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 12 | - | ![]() |
FE7 | 20 | 5 | - | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 12 | - | ![]() |
FE8 | 20 | 5 | - | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 12 | - | ![]() |
FE9 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 14 | ![]() |
FE10 | 25 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 13 | ![]() |
FE15 | 26 | 7 | - | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | - | - | ![]() |
Maximum Stats[edit | edit source]
HP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Mov | Con | Wt | Wlv | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FE3 | 52 | 20 | - | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 6 | - | - | Axe 20 |
FE4 | 80 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 22 | 30 | 20 | 15 | 6 | - | - | ![]() |
FE5 | 80 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | - | 20 | 20 | - | ![]() |
TS | 60 | 19 | 15 | 16 | 19 | 30 | 18 | - | 12 | - | - | ![]() |
FE6 | 60 | 20 | - | 20 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 20 | - | ![]() |
FE7 | 60 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 20 | - | ![]() |
FE8 | 60 | 20 | - | 20 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 20 | - | ![]() |
FE9 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 20 | 20 | 6 | 13 | 14 | ![]() |
FE10 | 45 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 35 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 13 | ![]() |
FE15 | 52 | 40 | - | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 4 | - | - | ![]() |
Growth Rates[edit | edit source]
HP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Mov | Con | Wt | Wlv | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FE2 | 150% | 50% | - | 50% | 50% | 0% | 50% | 0% | - | - | - | - |
FE3 | 90% | 50% | - | 10% | 20% | - | 50% | 0% | - | - | - | - |
FE6 | 82% | 50% | - | 30% | 20% | 15% | 10% | 10% | - | - | - | - |
FE7 | 82% | 50% | - | 30% | 20% | 15% | 10% | 13% | - | - | - | - |
FE8 | 82% | 50% | - | 30% | 20% | 15% | 10% | 13% | - | - | - | - |
FE9 | 90% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 25% | 40% | 20% | - | - | - | - |
FE10 | 105% | 60% | 10% | 85% | 75% | 70% | 90% | 50% | - | - | - | - |
FE15 | 120% | 45% | - | 40% | 45% | 0% | 40% | 10% | - | - | - | - |
Class Skills[edit | edit source]
Skill | Requirements | |
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FE5 | ![]() | Base skill of Mountain Thieves. |
TS | ![]() | Base skill of Bandits. |
FE16 | ![]() | Mastery Ability of Brigand. |
Promotions[edit | edit source]
Base Class | Promotion Method | Promoted Class | |
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FE5 | ![]() | Use a ![]() | ![]() |
FE6 | ![]() | Use a ![]() | ![]() |
FE7 | ![]() | Use an ![]() | ![]() |
FE8 | ![]() | Use an ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
FE9 | ![]() Bandit | Use a ![]() | ![]() Berserker |
FE16 | Any class | Use an ![]() | ![]() |
Notable Brigands[edit | edit source]
Fire Emblem Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia[edit | edit source]
- Brigand Boss - Leader of the Thieves' Shrine.
- Barth - A brigand who is responsible for the death of Valbar's family.
- Garth - A brigand who captures people for the Grieth Pirates.
Mystery of the Emblem[edit | edit source]
- Hyman - The leader of the Soothsires, a feared group of thieves. (Fighter in Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light / Shadow Dragon).
Thracia 776[edit | edit source]
- Marty - A youth from Fiana and a member of the Mount Violdrake Bandits.
The Binding Blade[edit | edit source]
- Gonzalez - A dull but kindhearted bandit with a very rough exterior.
- Scouran - A brigand who works alongside Zinc to destroy villages.
The Blazing Blade[edit | edit source]
- Batta - A Ganelon Bandit who is called the Beast for his savagery.
- Zugu - The leader of a group of bandits sent by Lundgren to kill Lyn.
- Migal - A member of the Ganelon Bandits.
- Carjiga - A member of the Ganelon Bandits.
- Bug - The most powerful of the Ganelon Bandits.
- Groznyi - A bandit hailing from Caelin.
The Sacred Stones[edit | edit source]
- Bone - The only named henchman of Bazba's Bandits.
- Bazba - The leader of Bazba's Bandits.
- Nameless Bandit - A nameless bandit from Carcino with unique stats.
Path of Radiance[edit | edit source]
- Zawana - The leader of a group of bandits plundering a village in Caldea.
- Ikanau - A bandit part of the same group as Zawana, he is responsible for kidnapping Mist and Rolf.
- Havetti - A pirate who extorts money and supplies from villagers.
- Nedata - A relatively more honorable pirate who enjoys singing.
Vestaria Saga: The Holy Sword of Silvanister[edit | edit source]
- Baselhaen/Baselpapa: A bandit captured and forced to fight in Zade's army. He is infamous for his foul odour.
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