—Opening Narration
Prisoner Release is Chapter 10 of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.
There are two ways to complete this level, go into stealth and avoid getting seen by the patrolling guards or just go through killing the enemy units like normal. The first of the two options gives a lot of bonus experience, while the second gives about the same amount of experience, but in the form of battles instead.
Recruitable Units
Break open the jail cells and talk to the units with the appropriate character (Ike for all or Oscar for Kieran), all of them except Sephiran will turn into Ally Units. If they survive the chapter then they will be recruited next chapter, even if you don't talk to them, just open their door.
Items
Dropped Items
- 1 Master Seal (dropped by Danomill the boss)
- 1 Chest Key (hard mode only)
- 2 Door Key
- 1 Chest Key
Chests
- 1 Statue Frag - Solo chest, upper right room.
- 1 Counter scroll - Lower chest in the Boss area.
- 1 Steel Lance
- 1 Short Axe
- 1 Javelin
Base Conversations
Name | Value | Requirement | Obtain |
Soldier | * | - | - |
Marcia | * | Marcia recruited and is alive | - |
Lethe | * | Lethe is alive | - |
Enemy Reinforcements
These appear if you get spotted by the enemies on patrol
- 1 knight, 2 myrmidon, and 1 archer appear behind where you start.
- 2 knights, 1 mage, and 1 myrmidon appear at the right.
- 3 soldiers, 2 knights, and 1 halberdier appear at the top.
Strategy
Subjective: The following part of this article is based upon the editor's personal experiences and opinions, and therefore may not be applicable for all readers.
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For Bonus Experience
For optimal bonus experience, you must go throughout the whole chapter without being spotted at all. In order to avoid being spotted and triggering enemy reinforcements, you must stay out of the attacking range of the moving guards. You can still open the doors and recruit Kierian, Brom and Nephenee so long as you immediately rescue them or Order them to stay away from the moving guards. Fighting the boss will not trigger the reinforcements but neither will it add to the total bonus experience for the map.
Another tip for bonus experience is to try to have every other teammate (including Kieran, Brom and Nephenee) escape before Ike, thus gaining more bonus experience.
Turn by turn walkthroughs for this chapter exist, such as the one in this FAQ.
For Recruits and Battle Experience
I would strongly suggest splitting your team into two groups. The first group should consist of Ike, Oscar, Volke, a healer, and a mage. This group will be running around the stage, recruiting new members and holding off the main group of enemy reinforcements. The second group should go all the way up from where the starting position is. Have the other sage and the other healer be protected by the other team members. This team will be defeating enemies that come in from the staircase, then joining up with the other group to defeat the boss and escape.
Recruiting Characters
It is unnecessary to talk to any of the characters you wish to recruit. All you need to do is open the doors. However on Japan-only Maniac mode, each of the three characters must also escape the map. For Brom and Nephenee, you can Rescue them then escape with rescuing units, while Kieran have to be spoken to with Oscar to make him a Partner Unit, and then Directed towards the escape point.
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