Dark Sage

Dark Sage Pelleas as a Dark Sage in Radiant Dawn. The king of Daein. He is a master of dark magic's enigmas and can also wield lightning magic.

Unit type(s) Infantry Weapon(s) Dark, Thunder Skill(s) Shove

The Dark Sage (Japanese: 闇の賢者ダークセイジ Dark Sage) is an advanced magical class which is exclusive to Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It is a variant of the common Sage class with unique access to dark magic, and is exclusive to the character Pelleas. The class is one of Radiant Dawn's element-specialized versions of the Sage class of other Fire Emblem series games, along with the Fire Sage, Thunder Sage, Wind Sage and Light Sage, and it specializes in dark magic while also being able to use thunder magic.

As one of only three playable classes and two playable units in Radiant Dawn which can use dark magic, Pelleas has a unique advantage as a Dark Sage. The class's stats are very similar to the other Sage classes (and identical to the Thunder Sage), with high magic, skill and speed, and as a result deals in pure magical offense which is improved by the superior raw power of dark tomes. However, in addition to the traditional frailty of Sages, The class is hindered by the sheer weight of dark tomes, the heaviest of all magic types, and a lack of enough strength to work around this.

The Dark Sage's promoted form is the Arch Sage, specifically an individual variant which gains access to staves in addition to the Dark Sage's thunder and dark magic. There is no base equivalent of this class anywhere in the game; in fact, no base classes are able to use dark magic at all. Also, although there are dark magic-wielding enemies in Radiant Dawn, they use the Druid class rather than the Dark Sage.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	29	11	18	16	15	0	10	14	6	10	C B

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	40	15	26	23	24	30	17	23	20	99	A S

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision
Radiant Dawn	--	--	--	+0	30	3

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	50%	10%	35%	25%	35%	50%	25%	35%	--	--	--	--

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

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Radiant Dawn	Shove	Innate.

Class change

Radiant Dawn

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Fire Mage	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Fire Sage	Using a Master Crown after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Arch Sage
Thunder Mage		Thunder Sage
Wind Mage		Wind Sage
		Dark Sage

Playable Dark Sages

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Pelleas	Radiant Dawn
Playable Dark Sage units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn (class roll)	Sages who have mastered the complexities of dark magic.	??
Radiant Dawn (help)	The king of Daein. He is a master of dark magic's enigmas and can also wield lightning magic.	デイン国王 難解な魔道を己のものとした闇使い 闇属性と雷属性の魔法を得意とする

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Dark Sage	--
Japanese	闇の賢者ダークセイジ	Officially romanized as Dark Sage. In Radiant Dawn, all Japanese class names are spelled primarily in kanji (i.e. 闇の賢者), with a foreign-language name in katakana applied as furigana (i.e. ダークセイジ) and used as the basis for the romanized name in the class roll.
Spanish	Sabio Oscuro	Dark Sage
French	Sage nuit	Night sage
German	Weiser/Finster	Sage/Dark
Italian	Saggio buio	Dark sage

Gallery

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  Pelleas as a Dark Sage in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Druid
• Sage
  • Fire Sage
  • Light Sage
  • Thunder Sage
  • Wind Sage
• Sorcerer

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