High Priest

High Priest Artwork of the High Priest from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game. Masters of staves with wisdom from experience. Their healing powers are lifesaving in battle.

Unit type(s) Infantry (all titles) Mystical (Engage) Weapon(s) Staff, Fire, Thunder, Wind (Genealogy of the Holy War) Staff, Light (Thracia 776) Tome, Staff, Art (Engage) Skill(s) Self-Healing (Engage)

High Priest (Japanese: ハイプリースト High Priest) is an advanced magical class which was introduced in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. It is present only in Genealogy, Thracia 776, and Engage, and a counterpart to the role of the Bishop in most other games. The High Priest acts as the promoted class for Priests of both genders in Genealogy and Thracia 776, and Martial Monks in Engage. High Priests wield staves in all three games, but their choice of weapons varies between the games: they wield the three forms of anima magic in Genealogy of the Holy War, light magic in Thracia 776, and tomes or Arts in Engage.

High Priests are competent healers with high magic and exceptional resistance, but are lacking in physical defense. Their offensive capabilities are passable with their high magic, but are crippled by having restricted access to offensive magic with their low weapon levels and, in Thracia 776, very few light magic tomes available for them to use. They are further held back in Genealogy of the Holy War by their movement, tied with that of the General for the lowest of any advanced class, in a game with a strong focus on large maps and high movement.

Stats

---

This section is missing stats, calculations, or growth rates which may be currently unknown. If this information is available, please help improve the page by adding it.

---

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	35	0	12	9	8	0	3	8	5	--	A C C C
Thracia 776	18/16	0	6	3/2	2/3	0	1	--	6	4/3	D E
Engage									5		B S C

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	80	15	27	24	23	30	18	23	5	--	A C C C
Thracia 776	80	20	20	20	20	20	20	--	20	20	A A
Engage	55	28	45	31	32	38	20	48	20	13	A S B

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision
Genealogy of the Holy War	--	--	3,000	--	--	--
Thracia 776	--	2	--	--	--	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	100%	10%	30%	30%	30%	0%	10%	30%	--	--	--	--
Thracia 776	30%	3%	20%	10%	10%	10%	5%	--	--	5%	0%	--

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

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Engage	Self-Healing	Learned at Level 5.

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 that change into the High Priest class have the following class change option:

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

Thracia 776

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

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Priest	Using a Knight Proof after reaching Level 10.	High Priest

Engage

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Martial Monk	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10. Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10 and having proficiency.	Martial Master or High Priest
Promotion choice criteria: The player may freely choose.

Playable High Priests

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Claud	Genealogy of the Holy War
Saias	Thracia 776
Pandreo	Engage
Playable High Priest units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable enemy High Priests

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Lepus	Genealogy of the Holy War
Enemy High Priest units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Engage	Masters of staves with wisdom from experience. Their healing powers are lifesaving in battle.	経験を積み、杖を極めた司祭。 大いなる癒しの力で、味方の命を救う。

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	High Priest	--
English (unofficial)	High Priest	Used in the Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776 fan translations.
Japanese	ハイプリースト	High Priest
Spanish	Gran sacerdote	Great priest
French	Prêtre d'élite	Elite priest
German	Oberpriester	High priest
Italian	Gran sacerdote	Great priest
Korean	하이 프리스트	High priest
Simplified Chinese	主教	Bishop
Traditional Chinese	主教	Bishop

Gallery

• 

  Artwork of the High Priest from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.

• 

  The generic High Priest portrait in Genealogy of the Holy War.

See also

• Bishop

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