Great Master

Great Master The generic Great Master portrait in Fates. Hoshidan. An enlightened monk who uses both rods and naginata.

Unit type(s) Infantry Weapon(s) Naginata, Rod Skill(s) Renewal, Countermagic

The Great Master (Japanese: 山伏 Yamabusi) is an advanced infantry class that debuted in Fire Emblem Fates. It is a Hoshido-aligned class and is a class change option for the Monk. Great Masters augment their support skills with rods with the ability to fight with naginata.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Fates	19	8	6	6	8	5	6	7	6	--	E E

Maximum stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Fates	55	32	30	31	33	32	28	32	8	--	B A

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Fates	10/85%	15/50%	5/50%	5/50%	15/55%	15/30%	10/40%	10/50%	--	--	--	--

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

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Fates	Renewal	Learned from Level 5 and up.
Fates	Countermagic	Learned from Level 15 and up.

Class change

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Monk	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10.	Onmyoji or Great Master
Promotion choice criteria: The player may freely choose.

Notable enemy Great Masters

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Azama	Fates
Enemy Great Master units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Fates	Hoshidan. An enlightened monk who uses both rods and naginata.	白夜の兵種。荒行の末に悟りを得た者。 祓串で仲間を癒やし、薙刀で敵を討つ。

Trivia

• The Great Master is one of only two explicitly male-only Hoshido classes, the other being the Monk.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Great Master	"Great Master" (大師 dàshī in Mandarin Chinese, or daishi in Japanese) is a style used when addressing Buddhist monks.
Japanese	山伏	Officially romanized as Yamabusi. A yamabushi (literally, "one who bows on the mountain") is a Japanese monk of the Shugendō religion who lives a solitary hermit life in the mountains of Japan. In addition to their role as holy men, yamabushi also trained in martial arts to further themselves both physically and spiritually, and are known to have participated as warriors in major historic battles of the Sengoku period.
Spanish	Gran maestre	Great master
French	Grand maître	Great master
German	Erzmeister	Archmaster
Italian	Sommo maestro	Greatest master
Korean	도사	Great Master

Gallery

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  The generic Great Master portrait in Fates.

See also

• War Monk
• Priestess, the Great Master's female counterpart

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