Knight Lord

Knight Lord Battle Sprite of Eliwood, a Knight Lord, in The Blazing Blade. Eliwood, a young noble of Pherae. A swordfighter with an important mission.

Unit type(s) Mounted Weapon(s) Sword, Lance Skill(s) Canto

The Knight Lord (Japanese: ロードナイト Lordknight) is an advanced, mounted lord-type class. It is shared by three Fire Emblem series protagonists: it is the promoted class for Seliph of Genealogy of the Holy War and Eliwood of The Blazing Blade, and is the initial class of Sigurd, Seliph's father, in Genealogy of the Holy War. Wielding both swords and lances, the class bears many similarities to the Paladin class.

In Genealogy of the Holy War, the Knight Lord promotes from Junior Lord under the usual circumstances for the game; it is not a story-driven event and can be done at any time once Seliph reaches Level 20. In The Blazing Blade, it promotes from Eliwood's Lord variant, the circumstances of which depend on the story mode in question; in Eliwood's tale, the promotion is an automatic event at the end of Chapter 27, while in Hector's story mode, the Heaven Seal promotion item can be used at any time under the usual promotion circumstances.

Additionally, an unused unpromoted class that shares the same name in western versions (Japanese: リキア騎士 Lycia Knight) is also found in the data of The Blazing Blade.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	40	10	0	7	7	0	7	3	9	--	A B
The Blazing Blade	18	3	--	3	4	0	5	0	7	9	D D
The Blazing Blade (Unused)	20	5	--	2	5	0	6	0	7	7	E D

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War	80	25	15	22	22	30	22	18	9	--	A B
The Blazing Blade	60	27	--	26	24	30	23	25	15	25	S S*
The Blazing Blade (Unused)	60	20	--	20	20	30	20	20	15	20	A A

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision
Genealogy of the Holy War	--	--	3,000	--	--	--
The Blazing Blade	--	3	--	--	--	--

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%	--	--	--	--
The Blazing Blade	90%	45%	--	40%	45%	40%	15%	15%	--	--	--	--
The Blazing Blade (Unused)	75%	35%	--	40%	28%	30%	15%	15%	--	--	--	--

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

Promotion gains

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Defense	Resistance	Weapon level
The Blazing Blade	4	2	--	0	1	1	3	--

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Genealogy of the Holy War The Blazing Blade	Canto	Innate; hidden and unnamed.

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, Seliph—the only unit that changes into Knight Lord class—has the following class change option:

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Junior Lord	Choosing the "Class change" option at a home castle after reaching Level 20.	Knight Lord

The Blazing Blade

Used

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Lord	Automatically at the end of Chapter 27E* / Using a Heaven Seal at Level 10 or above.*	Knight Lord

Unused

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Knight Lord	Hypothetical only: Automatically at the end of Chapter 27E in Eliwood's tale.*	Paladin

Playable Knight Lords

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Sigurd	Genealogy of the Holy War First Generation
Playable Knight Lord units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Blazing Blade (class roll)	Eliwood, a young noble of Pherae. A swordfighter with an important mission.	フェレ侯公子　エリウッド 重要な役わりをになう剣の使い手
The Blazing Blade (help, used variant)	An honorific bestowed upon Lycia's mounted knights.	君主たる資質を備えた者の称号 騎馬を駆って戦う　リキアの騎士
The Blazing Blade (help, unused variant)	A noble attached to a ruling house. Has great potential.	領地をおさめる君主の後継 まだ年若い　未完の大器

Trivia

• In The Blazing Blade, the Knight Lord has a unique battle animation when wielding Durandal. In the 0206 and 0219 pre-release builds of the game, this animation is significantly different from that of the finished product, sporting a much shorter blade.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Knight Lord	--
English (unofficial)	Lord Knight	Used in older versions of the Genealogy of the Holy War fan translation.
Japanese	ロードナイト リキア騎士	Officially romanized as Lordknight. Lycia Knight; Used for the unused variant in The Blazing Blade.
Spanish	Lord caballero	Knight lord
French	Lord Equus	Horse Lord; from the Latin equus, "horse".
German	Edelmann	Nobleman
Italian	Lord cavaliere	Knight lord

See also

• Lord
• Great Lord
• Paladin

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