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Not to be confused with Substitute character

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Malledus informing Marth that replacement characters are available for recruitment

Replacement characters are a fan term used to describe a type of playable unit that appears in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem.

Overview[]

In the games that they are utilized, replacement characters appear if the player suffers many losses - so much that they have less than the maximum number of units allowed for the current map in their entire army.

These characters have no face sprites, all have blue hair, and use the generic class icons. Their names are fixed (chosen from a bank of 31 names) and depend on the language version. For instance, the Japanese replacement characters are named after German numbers, days and months. In the North American version some of the characters come with humorous and derogatory names such as "Lucer", "Auffle", and "Wymp". Replacement characters can be male or female, but their class icon will rarely reflect female characters.

They have no stat additions (meaning that their base stats are equal to the class base stats) or growth rate additions (so their growth rates are equal to the playable class growth rates) so they are typically inferior to regular playable units. Additionally, their lack of a luck stat makes them prone to enemy criticals.

In Shadow Dragon, the replacement characters stats are based off the average level of the remaining units in your army. For example if the player has several promoted or prepromoted units, the replacement characters will come in promoted classes.

In New Mystery of the Emblem, the levels and class of the replacement characters are instead based off the chapter they come in.

Exceptions[]

In Shadow Dragon, in addition to the generic replacement characters, there are a few unique characters, such as Norne and Athena, that can only join the player's force if the player advances to certain points in the game having lost certain numbers of units. Unlike the generic replacements, these characters have unique appearances, personalities, and stat growths, and they reappear in New Mystery of the Emblem, where their recruitment is no longer tied to allowing units to die.

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