Lodestar

Lodestar Marth as a Lodestar in Awakening. The Hero-King from the sagas said to have saved the world.

Unit type(s) Unknown Weapon(s) Sword Skill(s) Dancing Blade, Charm, Dual Guardsman, Speedtaker (Fates)

The Lodestar (Japanese: スターロード Star Lord) is a special Lord-like class debuting in Fire Emblem Awakening. It is a personal class exclusive to all bonus-character versions of Marth: both SpotPass versions and the downloadable content version in Awakening, and the amiibo version in Fates. In Awakening, it is capable of wielding the Rapier, Noble Rapier and all three Falchion variations, like the game's actual Lord characters; in Fates, it loses access to the Parallel Falchion, which is instead locked to Lucina.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Awakening	21	9	1	10	10	0	8	4	6	--	E

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Awakening	80	41	30	43	43	45	41	40	8	--	A

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Awakening	40/80%	20/45%	0%	20/45%	20/45%	0/50%	10/30%	5/30%	--	--	--	--

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

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Fates	+10 hit rate, +5 critical rate, +10 avoid	Innate.
Fates	Dancing Blade	Learned from Level 1 and up.
Fates	Charm	Learned from Level 10 and up.
Fates	Dual Guardsman	Learned from Level 25 and up.

Class change

Awakening

Special class
Lodestar

Fates

Any class	Promotion method	Special class
? Any male unit	Using a Hero's Brand.	Lodestar

Playable Lodestars

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Pr. Marth	Awakening (DLC version)
Pr. Marth	Awakening (Shadow Dragon SpotPass version)
King Marth	Awakening (New Mystery of the Emblem SpotPass version)
Marth	Fates (amiibo and DLC versions)
Playable Lodestar units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

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Trivia

• In Awakening, the Lodestar shares its battle model and map sprite with Lucina's version of the Lord class, which itself is meant to be dressed as Marth in the first place.
• The card game Fire Emblem Cipher and Fire Emblem Warriors both use the Lodestar as Marth's promoted class, since he was unable to to promote in his own games but the mechanics of Cipher and Warriors require that he is able to promote.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Lodestar	Literally speaking, a lodestar is an actual star used as a navigational reference. Metaphorically speaking, a lodestar is a guiding principle, like Marth's influence on the future of Archanea. Additionally, "lodestar" is phonetically similar to an inversion of the syllables of "Star Lord", the class's Japanese name.
Spanish	Polaris	From Polaris, the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor, which was historically used as a literal lodestar in world navigation.
French	Guide	Guide
German	Sternenlord	Starlord
Italian	Lord supremo	Supreme lord

Gallery

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  Marth as a Lodestar in Awakening.

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  Marth as a Lodestar in Fates.

See also

• Lord
• Great Lord

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