Axe Knight

Axe Knight Artwork of the Axe Knight from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game. Mounted knights who have mastered both horsemanship and the art of the axe.

Unit type(s) Mounted (all titles) Infantry (replaces Mounted when dismounted; Thracia 776) Beorc (Path of Radiance) Weapon(s) Axe Skill(s) Canto

The Axe Knight or Axe Cavalier (Japanese: アクスナイト Axe Knight) is a basic mounted class which debuted in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. It is one of the four weapon-specialist versions of the Cavalier, specializing exclusively in axes as its name suggests, and is a counterpart to the Free Knight/Sword Knight, Lance Knight and Arch Knight/Bow Knight.

Axe Knights are statistically very similar to their counterpart base mounted classes, but owing to their exclusive axe use their performance varies in practice. They are slowed down substantially by the sheer weight of their weapons of choice, but in exchange deal significantly greater damage on average with the higher might of axes. They also tend toward having bulkier defenses than their counterparts, with somewhat higher HP and defense. In Thracia 776, Axe Knights are forced to dismount to operate indoors, which forces them to wielde swords instead of their usual axes, thus reducing the burden of axe weight upon them and making them faster and more accurate fighters.

In Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, Axe Knights promote to the Great Knight class. In Path of Radiance, they instead promote to Paladin like their counterparts and have a choice of new weapon type to wield upon promotion. In Radiant Dawn, they promote to Axe Paladin, which in turn promotes again to Gold Knight. In Engage, they can promote into Paladin or Wolf Knight.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	30	7	0	6	6	0	6	0	8	--	B
Thracia 776	20	3/2	0	3/2	4/2	0	3/2	--	8/5	8	E, E
Path of Radiance	20/18	5	0	2	5/6	0	6/5	0/1	8	10/7	D
Radiant Dawn	18	8	0	7	6	0	7	0	8	10	D
Engage	23	6	1	8	7	2	4	2	5	6	B

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	80	22	15	21	21	30	21	15	8	--	B
Thracia 776	80	20	20	20	20	20	20	--	20	20	A, A
Path of Radiance	40	20	15	20	20	40	20	20	20	99	A
Radiant Dawn	40	20	10	20	20	30	20	10	20	99	A
Engage	69	40	21	41	37	30	27	29	20	12	B

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision
Genealogy of the Holy War	--	--	1,000	--	--	--
Thracia 776 (Mounted)	--	3	--	--	--	--
Thracia 776 (Dismounted)	--	2	--	--	--	--
Path of Radiance (Male)	--	--	--	+23	15	--
Path of Radiance (Female)	--	--	--	+22	15	--
Radiant Dawn	--	--	--	+24	15	2

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	100%	30%	10%	30%	30%	0%	30%	10%	--	--	--	--
Thracia 776	50%	20%	3%	15%	10%	10%	15%	--	--	15%	0%	--
Path of Radiance	70/65%	45/35%	15/20%	40%	50/55%	30%	45%	40/50%	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn	70%	45%	15%	40%	45%	25%	40%	40%	--	--	--	--
Engage	10%	10%	0%	10%	10%	10%	10%	10%	--	0%	--	--

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

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Genealogy of the Holy War Thracia 776 Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn	Canto	Innate; hidden and unnamed in all appearances except Radiant Dawn.

Class change

Genealogy of the Holy War

The class a unit changes into in Genealogy of the Holy War is determined by the unit and not the class; however, all units in the Axe Knight class have the following class change option:

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Axe Knight	Choosing the "Class change" option in a home castle after reaching Level 20.	Great Knight

Thracia 776

The class a unit changes into in Thracia 776 is determined by the unit and not the class; however, all units in the Axe Knight class have the following class change option:

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Axe Knight	Using a Knight Proof after reaching Level 10.	Great Knight

Path of Radiance

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Axe Knight	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Paladin

Radiant Dawn

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class	Promotion method	Master class
Axe Knight	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Axe Paladin	Using a Master Crown after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Gold Knight

Engage

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Axe Cavalier	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10. Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10 and having proficiency.	Paladin or Wolf Knight
Promotion choice criteria: The player may freely choose.

Playable Axe Knights

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Lex	Genealogy of the Holy War First Generation
Iuchar	Genealogy of the Holy War Second Generation
Brighton	Thracia 776
Hicks	Thracia 776
Kieran	Path of Radiance
Playable Axe Knight units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Path of Radiance	Mounted knights with swift movement who can wield a variety of weapons.	馬上でよろいに身をかため 武器を自在にあつかいます 移動力にすぐれます
Radiant Dawn (class roll)	Knights whose mounts carry them quickly across the battlefield. They wield axes.	騎馬で戦場を駆ける騎士 斧を武器とする
Radiant Dawn (help)	Mounted knights who have mastered both horsemanship and the art of the axe.	馬を自在に操り移動力に優れる騎士 斧を専門に扱って戦う 他に弓騎士・剣騎士・槍騎士がいる
Engage	Axe-wielding knights who ride freely about the battlefield. They strike a good balance of skills.	馬を自在に操り、移動力に優れる斧騎士。 能力のバランスが良い。

Trivia

• The Axe Knight's flavor text in Path of Radiance is shared with the Sword Knight, Lance Knight, and Bow Knight classes.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Axe Knight Axe Cavalier	Used in Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn. Used in Engage.
Japanese	• アクスナイト • 斧騎士アクスナイト	• Officially romanized as Axe Knight; this katakana rendering is used in all appearances. • Officially romanized as Axe Knight. In Radiant Dawn, all Japanese class names are spelled primarily in kanji (i.e. 斧騎士), with a foreign-language name in katakana applied as furigana (i.e. アクスナイト) and used as the basis for the romanized name in the class roll. Additionally, in Japanese dialogue in all other games, members of the class are usually referred to by the kanji name 斧騎士.
Spanish	Caballero hacha	Axe knight. Abbreviated to Cab. hacha in gameplay due to space restrictions.
French	Cavalier bipenne	Double-headed axe cavalier. Abbreviated to Cav. bipenne in Path of Radiance and C. bipenne in Radiant Dawn due to space restrictions.
German	Axtritter	Axe knight
Italian	Cavaliere ascia	Axe cavalier. Abbreviated to Cav. ascia in gameplay due to space restrictions.

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Axe Knight from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.

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  The generic Axe Knight portrait in Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  The generic Axe Knight portrait in Thracia 776.

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  An enemy Axe Knight in Path of Radiance.

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  An enemy Axe Knight in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Free Knight/Sword Knight
• Lance Knight
• Arch Knight/Bow Knight

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