Mage Fighter

Mage Fighter Artwork of the Mage Fighter from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.

Unit type(s) Infantry Weapon(s) Sword, Fire, Thunder, Wind, Staff* Skill(s) Adept

The Mage Fighter (Japanese: マージファイター Mage Fighter) is an advanced class exclusive to Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. It possesses access to swords as well as fire, thunder, and wind magic; additionally, female Mage Fighters can use staves. It is the promoted class for Thunder Mages, Wind Mages and female Mages, with male Mages instead becoming Mage Knights.

As a mixed-weaponry class, the Mage Fighter is unique in its balanced status; while not possessing the same sheer strength in both types as a pure-physical or pure-magical unit, it is competent in both fields. Its stats skew further toward the magical side than the physical, possessing on average better magic and resistance than its strength and defense, though in this respect its magic and resistance are still inferior to the pure magical classes, such as the Sage and High Priest. Compared to the Mage Knight, it is crippled by its lesser movement, particularly given the vast nature of the maps of Genealogy of the Holy War and thus the demand for units with higher movement.

Mage Fighters are entirely absent from Genealogy of the Holy War's successor, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. Presumably, the fact that Mage Knights can now dismount and temporarily act as infantry units rendered the Mage Fighter redundant.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War (male)	30	5	12	10	10	0	7	7	6	--	B B B C
Genealogy of the Holy War (female)	26	3	12	9	12	0	5	10	6	--	B B B B C

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Genealogy of the Holy War (male)	80	20	27	25	25	30	22	23	6	--	B B B C
Genealogy of the Holy War (female)	80	18	27	24	27	30	20	25	6	--	B B B B C

Miscellaneous stats

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

Class growth rates

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

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

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Genealogy of the Holy War	Adept	Innate.

Class change

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 Mage Fighter class have the following class change option:

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Mage* Thunder Mage Wind Mage	Choosing the option "Class change" in the home castle after reaching Level 20.	Mage Fighter

Notable enemy Mage Fighters

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Vaja	Genealogy of the Holy War
Ishtore	Genealogy of the Holy War
Anguilla	Genealogy of the Holy War
Enemy Mage Fighter units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable NPC Mage Fighters

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Aida	Genealogy of the Holy War
Neutral Mage Fighter units in the Fire Emblem series.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English (unofficial)	• Mage Hero • War Mage	• Used in older versions of the Genealogy of the Holy War fan translation; the provided rationale is to rename the class after another class that can use swords (Hero), as opposed to it sharing the name of one which cannot (Fighter). • Used in the "Project Naga" patch. May have been named by analogy with the War Monk and War Cleric from Awakening, which are similar mixed physical/magic infantry classes.
Japanese	• マージファイター • 魔道剣士	• Mage Fighter, referring to the class's dual mage and physical fighter functionality. Used in gameplay. • Magic swordsman. Used in the world map narration of Chapter 5.

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Mage Fighter from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.

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  The generic Mage Fighter portrait in Genealogy of the Holy War.

See also

• Priestess (Gaiden)
• Dread Fighter
• Grandmaster
• Mage Knight
• Mortal Savant

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