Marshall

Marshall Meg as a Marshall in Radiant Dawn. Walking fortresses whose precise attacks belie their bulk. They wield the skill Luna.

Unit type(s) Armored Weapon(s) Sword, Lance, Axe Skill(s) Shove, Luna/Eclipse

The Marshall (Japanese: 将帥マーシャル Marshal) is an advanced infantry class which is exclusive to Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. They are a rare third-tier promoted class and the final stage in the class change line for all of the game's heavily armored classes. Marshalls wield all three of the weapon types available to the game's armored classes - swords, lances, and axes - although their proficiency and stats depend on their original weapon of choice in their initial class.

Marshalls have the second-highest defense stat of any playable class in Radiant Dawn, surpassed only by Dragonlords. As is traditional for the heavily armored classes, Marshalls have immense HP, strength and defense, and high resistance for a physical class. This comes at the expense of low speed and the lowest movement of all third-tier advanced classes. Their access to a wide variety of weapons, high strength, good skill and access to the Luna skill gives them a good offensive presence as well, but their low speed holds them back and leads to them being frequently follow-up attacked. They continue the armored tradition of specializing in being defensive pivots to block impending enemy charges, and their high resistance, only surpassed by Seraph Knights among the physical classes, enables them to stand their ground against magic users as well.

The advanced classes Sword General, Lance General, and Axe General - themselves the promoted forms of the Armored Sword, Armored Lance, and Armored Axe - all change class to become Marshalls, with each class becoming a slightly different variant with different weapon levels and stats. There also exists a NPC-exclusive Marshall variant exclusive to Zelgius which appears only in a cutscene in Part III, Chapter 4. This variant has much higher stats than the usual Marshalls and has the Eclipse skill instead of Luna, but is unable to use axes.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn (Sword: Meg)	55	21	3	22	13	0	23	10	6	6	A C D
Radiant Dawn (Lance: Tauroneo, Gatrie)	55	21	3	21	14	0	24	9	6	13	D A C
Radiant Dawn (Axe: Brom)	55	21	3	20	15	0	24	9	6	13	C D A
Radiant Dawn (Zelgius)	60	31	18	35	28	0	30	24	6	13	SS S

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn (Sword: Meg)	60	36	20	33	32	30	35	32	20	99	SS S A
Radiant Dawn (Lance: Tauroneo, Gatrie)	60	36	20	34	31	30	37	30	20	99	A SS S
Radiant Dawn (Axe: Brom)	60	37	20	35	30	30	36	30	20	99	S A SS
Radiant Dawn (Zelgius)	70	40	20	40	35	30	40	35	20	99	SS SS

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision	Size
Radiant Dawn (Lance, axe)	--	--	--	+13	60	3	--
Radiant Dawn (Sword, Zelgius)	--	--	--	+10	60	3	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn (Sword: Meg)	80%	50%	15%	55%	45%	60%	35%	30%	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn (Lance: Tauroneo, Gatrie)	75%	45%	20%	45%	30%	25%	55%	45%	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn (Axe: Brom)	75%	45%	20%	45%	30%	25%	55%	45%	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn (Zelgius)	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	--	--	--	--

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

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Radiant Dawn	Shove	Innate.
Radiant Dawn	Luna	Innate (Mastery skill). Sword, lance and axe variants only.
Radiant Dawn	Eclipse	Innate (Mastery skill). Zelgius variant only.

Class change

Radiant Dawn

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class	Promotion method	Master class
Armored Sword	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Sword General	Using a Master Crown after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Marshall
Armored Lance		Lance General
Armored Axe		Axe General

• Note: Armored Lances and Armored Axes only appear as enemy units, and while they do have the ability to promote programmed in, it does not happen in an unmodified game.

Notable NPC Marshalls

Other Units
Name	Game
Zelgius	Radiant Dawn
Neutral Marshall units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn (class roll)	Even the most powerful of attacks will not stop these warriors. They wield the skill Luna.	強力な攻撃技も容易く弾いてしまう 歩く要塞 奥義【月光】の使い手
Radiant Dawn (help)	Walking fortresses whose precise attacks belie their bulk. They wield the skill Luna.	強力な攻撃技も容易く弾いてしまう 歩く要塞 奥義【月光】の使い手
Radiant Dawn (class roll, Zelgius)	Zelgius, general of Begnion. None can match his expertise with swords. He employs the skill Luna.	ベグニオン帝国軍将軍ゼルギウス その剣技は何者をも凌驚する 奥義【月光】の使い手
Radiant Dawn (help, Zelgius; unused)	The Begnion general, Zelgius. His swordsmanship is unparalleled. He employs the skill Luna.	ベグニオン帝国軍将軍ゼルギウス その剣技は何者をも凌驚する 奥義【月光】の使い手

Trivia

• The NTSC-U description erroneously states for the Zelgius variant that it wields Luna instead of Eclipse. This error occurred due to Luna and Eclipse sharing the same Japanese name.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Marshall	Marshall (alternatively spelled marshal) is a modern military command rank which is the highest possible rank available to members of a land army in many countries. The title has its origins as a feudal title given to some court dignitaries.
Japanese	将帥マーシャル	Officially romanized as Marshal; literally "commander" from the kanji. In Radiant Dawn, all Japanese class names are spelled primarily in kanji (i.e. 将帥), with a foreign-language name in katakana applied as furigana (i.e. マーシャル) and used as the basis for the romanized name in the class roll.
Spanish	Mariscal	Marshall
French	Maréchal	Marshall
German	Marschall	Marshall
Italian	Gran generale	Great general

Gallery

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  Meg as a Marshall in Radiant Dawn.

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  Tauroneo as a Marshall in Radiant Dawn.

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  Brom as a Marshall in Radiant Dawn.

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  Gatrie as a Marshall in Radiant Dawn.

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  Zelgius as a Marshall in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Baron
• Black Knight

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