Prologue IV: Difference between revisions

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The same cautious strategy will serve you well for the final chapter of the prologue. You can recruit the archer Gordin in this chapter. His base stats and growths are all sub-par, but this is a problem endemic to all of the game's starting bow units. If you choose to recruit Gordin, you will be attacked by a group of invincible Knights, forcing you to sacrifice one of your units. The best choice is Gordin himself, who has low stats and is a poor unit. Sacrificing Jagen has the novelty side effect of changing a couple of scenes later on in this chapter and the next and replacing him with Draug, though it should be noted Frey is the canonical sacrifice in this chapter. Make sure to trade the decoy's items to your other men before making the sacrifice. If you decide to sacrifice Gordin, you may as well simply kill him for a little free experience, as the north door will automatically open if Marth kills him. If Marth's entire party save him is wiped out, the north door will also open automatically and allow you to progress, though obviously this is not an ideal outcome. You'll want to stick around and let a couple of Pegasus Knights show up for some extra experience, particularly for Gordin, if you decide to use and not kill him. The Captain may seem good target practice for the Rapier, but other units likely need experience more than Marth, and he is an extremely weak boss; it amounts to a waste of a Rapier use, and Rapiers are very uncommon weapons to begin with in addition to being better spent on more difficult bosses in later chapters such as [[Jiol]] and/or [[Camus]].

Finally, if two or more units have died during the prologue (including the decoy), an archer named Norne will join you. Norne is a faster, but frailer and overall inferior version of Gordin; the choice of archer is yours. You could also theoretically elect to use both archers, though the requirement of an additional Cavalier unit being lost to recruit Norne for the sake of having two archers, when Castor is recruited in Chapter 2 and [[reclassing]] is available from Chapter 4 onwards, is even less ideal from most viewpoints.

|jap-name={{hl|序章　結|Joshō ketsu}}

|jap-mean=Prologue: Conclusion; "conclusion" here is the fourth of four phases of a narrative with the ''[[wikipedia:kishōtenketsu|kishōtenketsu]]'' structure.