Knight Ward

Knight Ward Icon of a Knight Ward from Path of Radiance. A magic item that, when equipped, raises defenses. For use by soldiers, knights, and paladins only.

Type Item (Equipment) First game Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

The Knight Ward (Japanese: 騎士の護り Knight's Protection) is an item debuting in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, an equipment item making its only proper appearance in that game. Only Knights, Cavaliers, Soldiers, and their advanced forms may equip this item; when one of them does, the bearer will gain two-point boosts to their Defense and Resistance as well as a 30% boost to their Speed growth rate.

Radiant Dawn features an unused skill scroll version of the Knight Ward, albeit without functionality.

Data

Game	Icon	Uses	Worth	Effects and notes
Path of Radiance		--	4,000	+2 defense, +2 resistance, and +30% growth rate in speed when equipped. Knights, Generals, Cavaliers, Paladins, Soldiers, and Halberdiers only.
Radiant Dawn		--	1,000	Unused.

Locations

Path of Radiance

Inventory

Astrid

Radiant Dawn

Unused

If hacked into the game, it cannot be used at all as it has no functionality programmed.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Path of Radiance	A magic item that, when equipped, raises defenses. For use by soldiers, knights, and paladins only.	装備すれば　防御が上がる 騎士、兵士、重歩兵たちが使用可能

Trivia

• The Knight Ward's icon seems to be based on the Dracoshield's icon from the Game Boy Advance games.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Knight Ward	--
Japanese	騎士の護り	Knight's Protection. Romanized in the internal game files as KNIGHTSHIELD
Spanish	Escudo caballero	Knight's Shield. Abbreviated to Esc. caball. in gameplay due to space restrictions.
French	Ecu de cavalier	Cavalier's Shield. Abbreviated to Ecu de cav. in gameplay due to space restrictions.
German	Ritterschild	Knight's Shield
Italian	Scudo di cavaliere	Knight's Shield. Abbreviated to Sc. di cav. in gameplay due to space restrictions.