Shrine Maiden

Shrine Maiden The generic Shrine Maiden portrait in Fates. Hoshidan. A holy woman who uses rods to heal her allies.

Unit type(s) Infantry Weapon(s) Rod Skill(s) Miracle, Rally Luck

The Shrine Maiden (Japanese: 巫女 Miko) is a base healer class which was introduced in Fire Emblem Fates as a Hoshido-aligned class. One of only two explicitly female-only Hoshido classes (the other being the Priestess, one of its potential promotions), the Shrine Maiden is the basic female healing class of Hoshido and as such wields rods. They can promote to either Priestess or Onmyoji, and their male counterpart is the Monk.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Fates	16	0	3	5	5	4	2	5	5	--	E
Warriors (Sakura)	58	5	9	6	7	8	4	10	5	--	E/

Maximum stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Fates	35	18	21	20	22	23	17	24	7	--	B
Warriors (Sakura)	839	87	157	99	132	138	64	182	5	--	S/

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Fates	0/60%	5/0%	10/55%	10/45%	15/50%	15/30%	0/30%	20/55%	--	--	--	--

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

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Fates	+10 dodge	Innate; hidden and unnamed.
Fates	Miracle	Learned from Level 1 and up.
Fates	Rally Luck	Learned from Level 10 and up.

Class change

Fates

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Shrine Maiden	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10.	Onmyoji or Priestess
Promotion choice criteria: The player may freely choose.

Warriors

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Shrine Maiden	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 15.	High Priestess

Playable Shrine Maidens

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Sakura	Fates, Warriors
Mitama	Fates
Playable Shrine Maiden units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable enemy Shrine Maidens

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Sakura	Fates
Enemy Shrine Maiden units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable neutral Shrine Maidens

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Sakura	Fates, Warriors
Neutral Shrine Maiden units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Fates	Hoshidan. A holy woman who uses rods to heal her allies.	白夜の兵種。神に仕え、人々を癒やす女性。 祓串で仲間を癒すことができる。

Trivia

• The Shrine Maiden and its male counterpart, the Monk, are the only base classes whose members learn a rally skill by level-up.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Shrine Maiden	"Shrine maiden" is a common English term for the Miko (巫女; literally, "female shaman"), priestesses of Japan's Shinto religion who work at shrines.
Japanese	巫女	Officially romanized as Miko.
Spanish	Vestal	Nun
French	Gardienne	Guardian (feminine)
German	Schreinjungfer	Shrine maiden
Italian	Miko	--
Korean	무녀	Shrine Maiden

Gallery

• 

  The generic Shrine Maiden portrait in Fates.

See also

• Cleric
• Monk

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