Dark Knight

Not to be confused with the Black Knight of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, or with the character of the same name.

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Dark Knight A Dark Knight in battle in Awakening. A spell-casting knight who rides a black horse. Can wield swords in addition to magic.

Unit type(s) Unknown Weapon(s) Sword, Tome Skill(s) Slow Burn, Lifetaker

Dark Knight (ダークナイト Dark Knight) is an advanced class debuting in Fire Emblem Awakening. It is one of the class change options available to Mages, and functions very similarly to the Mage Knight class of the Jugdral games as a mixed class with access to both physical weapons and magic.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level

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

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Awakening	Slow Burn	Learned at level 5.

Class change

Awakening

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Mage	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10	Dark Knight or Sage
Promotion choice criteria: The player can freely choose

Playable Dark Knights

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Ares	Awakening
Olwen	Awakening
Selena	Awakening
Playable Dark Knight units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable enemy Dark Knights

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Farber	Awakening
Anguilla	Awakening
Ares	Awakening*
Olwen	Awakening*
Enemy Dark Knight units in the Fire Emblem series.

Trivia

• In Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, there is an unrelated unused class also called "Dark Knight", of no relation to the Awakening incarnation. Able to wield swords and lances, it uses the sprites of the Cavalier as placeholders for its own graphics which, as a result of the class being cut, were never completed.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Dark Knight	--

See also

• Dark Flier
• Grandmaster
• Mage Fighter
• Mage Knight

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