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 Miriel as a Dark Knight in Awakening. A seasoned, mounted mage who wields tomes and swords.

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

The Dark Knight (ダークナイト Dark Knight) is an advanced mounted class debuting in Fire Emblem Awakening. It is one of the class change options available to Mages and Dark 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. Its physical and magical offensive stats are roughly balanced, leaning slightly more toward magic than strength, and it has decent defensive stats with its defense being its highest stat overall.

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 and Dark Mage	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10.	Dark Knight

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
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.

Gallery

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  Miriel as a Dark Knight in Awakening.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Dark Knight	--
Spanish	Caballero oscuro	Dark knight
French	Paladin noir	Black paladin
German	Dunkelritter	Dark knight
Italian	Cavaliere oscuro	Dark knight

See also

• Grandmaster
• Mage Knight

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