Prisoner

In Fire Emblem Fates, enemy units who are captured are sent as prisoners to the prison facility at the player's My Castle. The player can recruit these units from the prison. Prisoner units can fulfil several uses, including helping to reinforce their army if they are missing proper units, giving access to unobtainable classes in the player's route, and giving the player a unit with access to unique skill combinations which ordinary playable units would otherwise not be able to easily obtain.

Overview

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Once the prison has been constructed, Orochi and Niles can use their personal skills, Capture and Kidnap respectively, to send defeated units to the prison. After clearing the map, the prison can then be visited in My Castle to view the captured units. There are two ways of convincing prisoners to defect to the player's army: to spend resources to bribe them, or to have the current prison guard attempt to persuade them. Bribing works automatically, but persuasion may require multiple tries to succeed depending on how high the prisoner's stats are.

Prisoners behave as bonus units. They have no dialogue of their own, and unlike the bonus units of Awakening, will not display dialogue boxes when they activate an event tile. However their portrait's expression changes during a level up depending on their stat gains; for example, they smile enthusiastically on a great level up, and wince when receiving a bad level up. They also cannot form support relationships, although they can participate in pairing up, and they are not mentioned in the epilogue's character endings. Like other bonus units, prisoner units can have their current stats saved to the Unit Logbook and can be re-bought later in other save files. They have a specific section of the Logbook dedicated to them, which can save a maximum of 100 prisoner units. A prisoner's Logbook entry can be updated at any time to reflect any changes made to their stats, and entries can also be removed or locked to prevent automatic overwrites.

Generic prisoner units retain the same portrait and battle model that they had as enemies, with the exception of Outlaws, whose hoods will be lowered once they have been recruited, like Niles. Upon changing class, they keep their original portrait but use the head model of their new class. For example, a generic Fighter will keep his brunette, helmetless portrait, but will have a grey haired, helmeted model if promoted to Hero. The capturable bosses retain their own portraits and appearances when converted into the player army, including head models.

Stats

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• Class: Prisoners retain their original class. If they are in a base class, they can be promoted normally using Master Seals. The only reclass option available to them is the alternate promotion of their base class, if they are promoted, so they cannot use Heart Seals if they are unpromoted. However, prisoners are allowed to use items such as the Witch's Mark and Sighting Lens to reclass into specific gender-compatible classes. The exception to this is Candace, who cannot reclass at all.
• Stats: Prisoners retain their original stats without changes after conversion into the player army. This means that prisoners captured on higher difficulties will be stronger than those captured in lower difficulties.
• Maximum stats: Boss units have unique max stat modifiers like regular playable characters do. Generic units have no negative or positive stat modifiers, so their maximum stats are just the standard maximums for their current class.
• Growth rates: Both generic and boss units have their own personal growth rates.
• Inventory: Prisoners do not retain their inventory from before their capture.
• Skills: Prisoners retain all skills when recruited, with the exception of enemy exclusive skills, which either disappear or are downgraded into regular skills. Skills that are unusual for a class but aren't enemy-exclusive will remain, such as an enemy Archer retaining Counter after conversion into the player army. If they do not currently know any of their class line's skills, they will learn them normally when leveling up.
  The following skills are designated as enemy-only and will be removed when a prisoner is recruited:

• Dragonskin
• Void Curse
• Staff Savant
• Divine Shield
• Resist Status
• Immune Status
• Hit/Avo +10
• Hit/Avo +20
• Immobilize
• Self-Destruct
• Inevitable End
• Winged Shield

Compatible enemy units

All generic human enemies in the main campaigns are able to be captured and recruited, including members of the otherwise enemy-only Lancer class. Non-human units cannot be captured at all; this includes both members of non-human classes (Faceless, Stoneborn, Kitsune, Nine-Tails, Wolfskin, Wolfssegners), and Vallite and Illusion soldiers.

Only thirteen bosses are capturable and recruitable, most of them coming from paralogues. All other bosses cannot be captured. These thirteen are:

• Daniela (Birthright only)
• Haitaka (Conquest only)
• Kumagera (Conquest only)
• Lloyd
• Llewelyn
• Nichol
• Candace
• Tarba (Birthright and Revelation)
• Funke (Birthright and Revelation)
• Daichi (Birthright and Revelation)
• Gazak (Conquest and Revelation)
• Senno (Conquest and Revelation)
• Zhara (Conquest and Revelation)

Names

There are 137 possible names for generic prisoner units, which are assigned to them once they enter the prison. The names are assigned to units based on their gender and nation of origin, and are divided into five sets: Hoshidan men, Nohrian men, Hoshidan women, Nohrian women, and Einherjar names. The capturable bosses retain their own names once imprisoned.

Hoshidan men

Japanese	English		French	German	Spanish	Italian
	NTSC	PAL
シモツキ Shimotsuki			Akihiro	Akihiro	Akihiro	Akihiro	Akihiro	Akihiro
キクヅキ Kikudzuki	Daisuke	Daisuke	Daisuke	Daisuke	Daisuke	Daisuke
コトワリ Kotowari	Hajime	Hajime	Hajime	Hajime	Hajime	Hajime
フチマシ Fuchimashi	Hideaki	Hideaki	Hideaki	Hideaki	Hideaki	Hideaki
ヨイヤミ Yoiyami	Kaede	Kaede	Kaede	Kaede	Kaede	Kaede
ツゴモリ Tsugomori	Kento	Kento	Kento	Kento	Kento	Kento
イニシエ Inishie	Kazuki	Kazuki	Kazuki	Kazuki	Kazuki	Kazuki
ウシトラ Ushitora	Masahiko	Masahiko	Masahiko	Masahiko	Masahiko	Masahiko
イヌワシ Inuwashi	Mitsuru	Mitsuru	Mitsuru	Mitsuru	Mitsuru	Mitsuru
トヂメ Tochime	Nobu	Nobu	Nobu	Nobu	Nobu	Nobu
セミマル Semimaru	Saburo	Saburo	Saburo	Saburo	Saburo	Saburo
ミチノク Michinoku	Yoichi	Yoichi	Yoichi	Yoichi	Yoichi	Yoichi
サムシロ Samushiro	Kazunari	Kazunari	Kazunari	Kazunari	Kazunari	Kazunari
イカルガ Ikaruga	Rintaro	Rintaro	Rintaro	Rintaro	Rintaro	Rintaro
サザナミ Sazanami	Kazuma	Kazuma	Kazuma	Kazuma	Kazuma	Kazuma
カイドウ Kaidou	Hidetora	Hidetora	Hidetora	Hidetora	Hidetora	Hidetora
イカヅチ Ikadzuchi	Yamato	Yamato	Yamato	Yamato	Yamato	Yamato
インロウ Inrou	Takanori	Takanori	Takanori	Takanori	Takanori	Takanori
ヤブサメ Yabusame	Tomihiko	Tomihiko	Tomihiko	Tomihiko	Tomihiko	Tomihiko
カミカゼ Kamikaze	Kenshi	Kenshi	Kenshi	Kenshi	Kenshi	Kenshi
ハシダテ Hashidate	Jinpei	Jinpei	Jinpei	Jinpei	Jinpei	Jinpei
ササハラ Sasahara	Yohei	Yohei	Yohei	Yohei	Yohei	Yohei
アジロギ Ajirogi	Ariyoshi	Ariyoshi	Ariyoshi	Ariyoshi	Ariyoshi	Ariyoshi
フナヒト Funahito	Mizuki	Mizuki	Mizuki	Mizuki	Mizuki	Mizuki
カササギ Kasasagi	Ukyo	Ukyo	Ukyo	Ukyo	Ukyo	Ukyo
サネカズラ Sanekazara	Ren	Ren	Ren	Ren	Ren	Ren
ナガツキ Nagatsuki	Hiroyuki	Hiroyuki	Hiroyuki	Hiroyuki	Hiroyuki	Hiroyuki
アリアケ Ariake	Tamaki	Tamaki	Tamaki	Tamaki	Tamaki	Tamaki
シガラミ Shigarami	Jin	Jin	Jin	Jin	Jin	Jin
ツリフネ Tsurifune	Hiromi	Hiromi	Hiromi	Hiromi	Hiromi	Hiromi

Nohrian men

Japanese	English		French	German	Spanish	Italian
	NTSC	PAL
エルザス Elzas			Gerald	Gerald	Gerald	Gerald	Gerald	Gerald
ティルビッツ Tirbitz	Hendrik	Hendrik	Hendrik	Hendrik	Hendrik	Hendrik
ウェーゼル Wesel	Bernd	Bernd	Bernd	Bernd	Bernd	Bernd
ブラント Brandt	Fritz	Fritz	Fritz	Fritz	Fritz	Fritz
ゴットハルト Gotthard	Christof	Christof	Christof	Christof	Christof	Christof
テオドリヒ Theodorich	Elmar	Elmar	Elmar	Elmar	Elmar	Elmar
ヴィルギル Vergil	Virgil	Virgil	Virgil	Virgil	Virgil	Virgil
ヨルク Yorck	Hubert	Hubert	Hubert	Hubert	Hubert	Hubert
グラウデンツ Graudenz	Konrad	Konrad	Konrad	Konrad	Konrad	Konrad
ヴォルフ Wolf	Ludwig	Ludwig	Ludwig	Ludwig	Ludwig	Ludwig
ザクセン Sachsen	Oskar	Oskar	Oskar	Oskar	Oskar	Oskar
イルティス Iltis	Reinhard	Reinhard	Reinhard	Reinhard	Reinhard	Reinhard
ドラッヘ Drache	Sven	Sven	Sven	Sven	Sven	Sven
レオパルド Leopardo	Tobias	Tobias	Tobias	Tobias	Tobías	Tobias
ブリッツ Blitz	Wenzel	Wenzel	Wenzel	Wenzel	Wenzel	Wenzel
ゼンメル Semmel	Andreas	Andreas	Andreas	Andreas	Andreas	Andreas
クレメル Kramer	Otto	Otto	Otto	Otto	Otto	Otto
フェルス Fels	Helmut	Helmut	Helmut	Helmut	Helmut	Mahinorm
ジーモン Simon	Simon	Simon	Simon	Simon	Simón	Simon
エグモント Egmont	Manfred	Manfred	Manfred	Manfred	Manfred	Manfred
グラーフ Graf	Wolfgang	Wolfgang	Wolfgang	Wolfgang	Wolfgang	Wolfgang
ルクス Luchs	Stefan	Stefan	Stefan	Stefan	Stefan	Stefan
アルバトロス Albatross	Roderick	Roderick	Roderick	Roderick	Roderick	Roderick
エルベ Elbe	Tancred	Tancred	Tancred	Tancred	Tancred	Tancred
オーサ Ossa	Theobald	Theobald	Theobald	Theobald	Theobald	Theobald
ザスニッツ Sassnitz	Leonard	Leonard	Leonard	Leonard	Leonard	Leonard
ゲパルト Gepard	Liam	Liam	Liam	Liam	Liam	Liam
ツォーベル Zobel	Bertram	Bertram	Bertram	Bertram	Bertram	Bertram
ブレムゼ Bremse	Roland	Roland	Roland	Roland	Roland	Roland
ヤグアル Jaguar	Edsel	Edsel	Edsel	Edsel	Edsel	Edsel

Hoshidan women

Japanese	English		French	German	Spanish	Italian
	NTSC	PAL
ウヅキ Uzuki			Madoka	Madoka	Madoka	Madoka	Madoka	Madoka
ハヅキ Hazuki	Kanade	Kanade	Kanade	Kanade	Kanade	Kanade
シロタエ Shirotae	Chiaki	Chiaki	Chiaki	Chiaki	Chiaki	Chiaki
ミカサ Mikasa	Mikasa	Mikasa	Mikasa	Mikasa	Mikasa	Mikasa
コマチ Komachi	Komachi	Komachi	Komachi	Komachi	Komachi	Komachi
モミジ Momiji	Momiji	Momiji	Momiji	Momiji	Momiji	Momiji
シロギク Shirogiku	Eriko	Eriko	Eriko	Eriko	Eriko	Eriko
ハツセ Hatsuse	Asuka	Asuka	Asuka	Asuka	Asuka	Asuka
コロモ Koromo	Koromo	Koromo	Koromo	Koromo	Koromo	Koromo
ミヨシノ Miyoshino	Akane	Akane	Akane	Akane	Akane	Akane
ミソギ Misogi	Hiroe	Hiroe	Hiroe	Hiroe	Hiroe	Hiroe
ワカバ Wakaba	Fumi	Fumi	Fumi	Fumi	Fumi	Fumi
ハルサメ Harusame	Saya	Saya	Saya	Saya	Saya	Saya
アサツユ Asatsuyu	Hotaru	Hotaru	Hotaru	Hotaru	Hotaru	Hotaru
スミレ Sumire	Haru	Haru	Haru	Haru	Haru	Haru
カスミ Kasumi	Kasumi	Kasumi	Kasumi	Kasumi	Kasumi	Kasumi
ツバメ Tsubame	Chihiro	Chihiro	Chihiro	Chihiro	Chihiro	Chihiro
スズメ Suzume	Suzume	Suzume	Suzume	Suzume	Suzume	Suzume
ツキアカリ Tsukiakari	Ruri	Ruri	Ruri	Ruri	Ruri	Ruri
ホシアカリ Hoshiakari	Yayoi	Yayoi	Yayoi	Yayoi	Yayoi	Yayoi
ヤエ Yae	Tomoe	Tomoe	Tomoe	Tomoe	Tomoe	Tomoe
ココノエ Kokonoe	Kanon	Kanon	Kanon	Kanon	Kanon	Kanon
ソラネ Sorane	Sorane	Sorane	Sorane	Sorane	Sorane	Sorane
アサジフ Asajifu	Yoriko	Yoriko	Yoriko	Yoriko	Yoriko	Yoriko
ヨモギフ Yomogifu	Yukari	Yukari	Yukari	Yukari	Yukari	Yukari
ワカナ Wakana	Naomi	Naomi	Naomi	Naomi	Naomi	Naomi
ハツシモ Hatsushimo	Shizue	Shizue	Shizue	Shizue	Shizue	Shizue
シラキク Shirakiku	Nanoha	Nanoha	Nanoha	Nanoha	Nanoha	Nanoha
シラユキ Shirayuki	Miyabi	Miyabi	Miyabi	Miyabi	Miyabi	Miyabi
カスガ Kasuga	Suzuran	Suzuran	Suzuran	Suzuran	Suzuran	Suzuran

Nohrian women

Japanese	English		French	German	Spanish	Italian
	NTSC	PAL
アルマ Alma			Adele	Adele	Adele	Adele	Adele	Adele
ベアトリーゼ Beatrice	Beatrice	Beatrice	Beatrice	Beatrice	Beatrice	Beatrice
ベッティ Betty	Hilda	Hilda	Hilda	Hilda	Hilda	Hilda
ブリギッタ Brigitta	Brigitta	Brigitta	Brigitta	Brigitta	Brigitta	Brigitta
コルドラ Cordula	Cordula	Cordula	Cordula	Cordula	Cordula	Cordula
ドーラ Dora	Dora	Dora	Dora	Dora	Dora	Dora
シュフティ Schufty	Ingrid	Ingrid	Ingrid	Ingrid	Ingrid	Ingrid
ニクセ Nixe	Kirsten	Kirsten	Kirsten	Kirsten	Kirsten	Kirsten
ミーナ Meenah	Lotte	Lotte	Lotte	Lotte	Lotte	Lotte
ユリカ Eureka	Margot	Margot	Margot	Margot	Margot	Margot
ヘクセ Hexe	Stella	Stella	Stella	Stella	Stella	Stella
ガウナ Gauna	Ursula	Ursula	Ursula	Ursula	Úrsula	Ursel
フレイヤ Freyja	Freyja	Freyja	Freyja	Freyja	Freyja	Freyja
ベアテ Beate	Verona	Verona	Verona	Verona	Verona	Verona
ダイナ Dinah	Gisela	Gisela	Gisela	Gisela	Gisela	Gisela
グレーテル Gretel	Gretel	Gretel	Gretel	Gretel	Gretel	Gretel
ユーディト Judith	Judith	Judith	Judith	Judith	Judith	Judith
カルリーネ Karline	Karline	Karline	Karline	Karline	Karline	Karline
マルグレート Margret	Annette	Annette	Annette	Annette	Annette	Annette
ローザリエ Rosalie	Ernesta	Ernesta	Ernesta	Ernesta	Ernesta	Ernesta
ロミー Romy	Romy	Romy	Romy	Romy	Romy	Romy
ナナ Nana	Astrid	Astrid	Astrid	Astrid	Astrid	Astrid
ルル Lulu	Lulu	Lulu	Lulu	Lulu	Lulú	Lulu
フロリアン Florian	Nina	Nina	Nina	Nina	Nina	Nina
テレマ Thelema	Thelma	Thelma	Thelma	Thelma	Thelma	Thelma
リタ Rita	Rita	Rita	Rita	Rita	Rita	Rita
マルテ Marte	Marta	Marta	Marta	Marta	Marta	Marta
エーリカ Erika	Marion	Marion	Marion	Marion	Marion	Marion
イルゼ Ilse	Ilse	Ilse	Ilse	Ilse	Ilse	Ilse
ファティマ Fatima	Louisa	Louisa	Louisa	Louisa	Louisa	Louisa

Einherjar

These names are used for the generic units that can be bought in the castle's Einherjar Shop. The first nine are Hoshidan, and the last eight are Nohrian.

Japanese	English		French	German	Spanish	Italian
	NTSC	PAL
イッパク Ippaku			Ippei	Ippei	Ippei	Ippei	Ippei	Ippei
ジコク Jikoku	Jitaro	Jitaro	Jitaro	Jitaro	Jitaro	Jitaro
サンペキ Sanpeki	Minori	Minori	Minori	Minori	Minori	Minori
シロク Shiroku	Shinobu	Shinobu	Shinobu	Shinobu	Shinobu	Shinobu
ゴオウ Gōu	Goro	Goro	Goro	Goro	Goro	Goro
ロッパク Roppaku	Musashi	Musashi	Musashi	Musashi	Musashi	Musashi
シチセキ Shichiseki	Nanaki	Nanaki	Nanaki	Nanaki	Nanaki	Nanaki
ハッパク Happaku	Hachio	Hachio	Hachio	Hachio	Hachio	Hachio
キュウシ Kyūshi	Konoe	Konoe	Konoe	Konoe	Konoe	Konoe
アインス Eins	Unil	Unil	Nemos	Unil	Mus	Ansuz
ツヴァイ Zwei	Dua	Dua	Lernos	Dua	Bovis	Æsch
ドライ Drei	Trim	Trim	Cerynos	Trim	Tigris	Berkano
フィーア Vier	Quatro	Quatro	Erymos	Quatro	Lepus	Cen
フュンフ Fünf	Penvo	Penvo	Augios	Penvo	Draco	Dagaz
ゼクス Sechs	Xestu	Xestu	Stymfos	Xestu	Anguilla	Ehwaz
ズィーベン Sieben	Hepto	Hepto	Crestos	Hepto	Equus	Ear
アハト Acht	Octu	Octu	Diomos	Octu	Ovis	Eihwaz

Trivia

• Like the Nintendo DS-era replacement units, some prisoner names are (probably accidentally) shared with other characters in the Fire Emblem series. In the Japanese version, the Nohrian-male name Fels is shared with Pheros from Awakening, and in both Japanese and Spanish the last eight Einherjar names, whose names count from one to eight in German in the former and name the animals of the Chinese zodiac in Latin in the latter, once again share their names with the first eight Deadlords from Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, and Awakening, although the Japanese version spells "Sieben" slightly differently compared to the Deadlord's Japanese name. The Nohrian prisoner names are also shared with the first eight replacement units from Shadow Dragon in both English and Japanese. In the NTSC English version, the names Stefan, Bertram, Roland, Astrid, Ursula, and Nina are all reused from official localizations, while Japanese character names such as Hilda, Reinhard, and Stella also appear. The "Nina" name has the unusual distinction of sharing a name with a character from the same-language version of Fates itself.
• Villagers have data for being captured, and their own personal growth rate, but as enemy villagers are only found in the arena or as Vallites, they cannot be captured in-game.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Prisoner
French	Prisonnier	Prisoner

See also

• Bonus unit
• Replacement unit