Great Lord

Great Lord Chrom as a Great Lord in Awakening. A seasoned leader of royal blood. Wields swords, lances.

Unit type(s) Unknown Weapon(s) Sword (Roy, Eirika) Sword, Axe (Hector) Lance (Ephraim) Sword, Lance (Chrom, Lucina) Skill(s) Canto (The Sacred Stones Aether, Rightful King (Awakening)

The Great Lord (Japanese: normally マスターロード Master Lord; グレートロード Great Lord in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade) is an advanced class which debuted in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, and is the most common advanced form of the Lord class. In the majority of its appearances it is the advanced class of all Lord characters to appear in the games in question; the exception is Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, where it is only Hector's advanced class, with Eliwood and Lyn getting Knight Lord and Blade Lord respectively.

Owing to its comparable status as a personal class for specific characters, and the different traits of the characters in question, the Great Lord's stats typically vary from game to game. Whereas Hector's version is reminiscent of the General in its possession of higher Strength and Defense at the expense of Speed, Eirika and Ephraim's versions in The Sacred Stones have more in common with the Paladin as a mounted class. The versions employed by Roy, Chrom and Lucina in The Binding Blade and Awakening are more balanced and loosely resemble the Hero class. As a general rule, all incarnations of the Great Lord are very competent and powerful classes.

Much as the statistical builds of the class vary on a personalized level, so too do the weapons to which they have access. Roy and Eirika both wield only swords, Ephraim wields only lances, Hector wields axes with swords as a secondary weapon, and Chrom and Lucina wield swords and lances. No incarnation of the Great Lord has ever wielded bows or magic.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Binding Blade (Roy)	22	5	--	6	6	0	7	5	6	8	A
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (Hector)	18	3	--	3	4	0	5	0	5	15	D D
The Sacred Stones (Eirika)	18	3	--	3	4	0	5	0	7	7	C
The Sacred Stones (Ephraim)	18	3	--	3	4	0	5	0	7	10	C
Awakening (Chrom)	23	10	0	7	9	0	10	3	6	--	Template:Sword3DS E Template:Lance3DS E

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Binding Blade (Roy)	60	25	--	25	25	30	25	25	15	25	S
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (Hector)	60	30	--	24	24	30	29	20	15	25	S S*
The Sacred Stones (Eirika)	60	24	--	29	30	30	22	25	15	25	S
The Sacred Stones (Ephraim)	60	27	--	26	24	30	23	23	15	25	S
Awakening (Chrom)	80	43	30	40	41	45	42	40	8	--	Template:Sword3DS A Template:Lance3DS A

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
The Binding Blade	60%	35%	--	30%	30%	35%	10%	15%	--	--	--	--
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade	90%	45%	--	40%	45%	40%	15%	20%	--	--	--	--
The Sacred Stones	90%	45%	--	40%	45%	40%	15%	15/20%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
The Sacred Stones	Canto	Innate; hidden and unnamed.
Awakening	File:Is 3ds aether.png Aether	Learned at level 5.

Class change

The Binding Blade

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Lord	Automatically at the end of Chapter 21.	Great Lord

Fire Emblem

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Lord	Automatically at the end of Chapter 29 or Using a Heaven Seal at level 10 or above.	Great Lord

The Sacred Stones

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Lord	Using a Solar Brace* or Lunar Brace* at level 10 or above; can be done automatically at the end of Chapter 17.	Great Lord

Awakening

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
File:Ma 3ds lord lucina playable.gif Lord	Using a Master Seal at level 10 or above.	File:Ma 3ds great lord lucina playable.gif Great Lord

Trivia

• In Awakening, the Great Lord carries a shield on its left arm. For Chrom, this shield is the Fire Emblem, and accordingly changes as its orbs are collected and disappears entirely for the few chapters in which it has been stolen by Validar. Lucina's shield is a larger version of the mask she wore in her "Marth" guise.

Gallery

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  Chrom as a Great Lord in Awakening.

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  Lucina as a Great Lord in Awakening.

Etymology and other languages

Roy, Eirika, Ephraim, Chrom and Lucina's

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Great Lord	As of The Sacred Stones.
Spanish	Gran lord	Great lord
French	Grand lord	Grand lord
German	Erzlord	Archlord
Italian	Gran Lord	Grand Lord

Hector's

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Great Lord	--
Spanish	Gran lord	--
French	Lord Happia
German	Herrscher	Sovereign
Italian	Grande Lord	Grand Lord

See also

• Blade Lord
• Knight Lord
• Prince

This article is part of Project Classes, a project focused in writing articles for every class present in the Fire Emblem series.