Transporter

Transporter A merchant who transports goods and supplies. Cannot engage in combat.

Unit type(s) Unknown Weapon(s) None Skill(s) None

A transporter (Japanese: 輸送隊 Transporter) is a class that carries items that appears rarely in the Fire Emblem series. In most other games, the convoy serves the same function and is not in the form of a unit or a class. However, in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade and Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, the Transporter class appears as a unit with this role, with only one character, named Merlinus. Usually, supply convoys of other games are nameless, or the group of named merchants of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn run the convoy but do not appear on the battlefield. In contrast to those examples, Merlinus is a character who appears in battles with a personality, dialogue, and even several support conversations.

If it is deployed, when a unit receives more items than their maximum capacity (five items), the item, or another item in that unit's inventory, can be selected to go to the convoy. If it is not present, the unit must discard one item. Since a transporter cannot attack, it must be guarded. Merlinus does have very high growth rates in HP, skill, speed, and luck, which help the only instances of this class have good endurance and dodging chances. If the transporter hits 0 HP, it can still be deployed the next chapter.

In The Binding Blade, the Transporter class does not change class. Here, Merlinus does take up a deployment space and only gains experience by being attacked, making the class incredibly tedious to level up, but regardless if he is present or not, items can still be sent to the convoy.

In The Blazing Blade, the class starts as a stationary tent. Merlinus starts at level 5; after he reaches level 20, he "promotes" to another transporter class, which is the horse-riding class that appears in The Binding Blade. Unlike The Binding Blade every chapter that Merlinus is deployed he gains a level, and he does not take up space in the number of allowed units; the player is asked if he or she wants to deploy Merlinus right before the chapter starts. However, if he is absent, and a unit's inventory is full, the player is instead forced to discard any item present in that unit's inventory. He cannot be deployed in Chapter 26Ex/28Hx, Chapter 28e, Chapter 30h, and both parts of the endgame.

Despite having sprites for when the class promotes in The Blazing Blade, there are no animations displayed when it is attacked.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Binding Blade	15	0	--	3	3	0	3	0	5	25	--
The Blazing Blade	15	0	--	3	3	0	3	0	0/5	25	--

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Binding Blade	60	20	--	20	20	30	20	20	15	25	--
The Blazing Blade	60	20	--	20	20	30	20	20	15	20/25	--

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision
The Binding Blade	--	1	--	--	--	--
The Blazing Blade	--	1	--	--	--	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
The Binding Blade	10%	0%	--	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	--	--	--	--
The Blazing Blade	10%	0%	--	0%	0%	0%	0%	10%	--	--	--	--

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

Class change

The Binding Blade

Base class
Transporter

The Blazing Blade

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Transporter	Automatically at Level 20.	Transporter

Playable transporters

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Merlinus	The Binding Blade, The Blazing Blade
Playable Transporter units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Binding Blade (help)	A conveyor of goods and items. Lacks combat skills.*	たくさんの持ち物を運ぶ役目 戦う力はもっていない
The Blazing Blade (class roll)	A merchant who transports goods and supplies. Cannot engage in combat.	たくさんの持ち物を預かる輸送隊 戦う力はもっていない
The Blazing Blade (help)	A conveyor of goods and items. Lacks combat skills.	たくさんの持ち物をあずかる役目 戦う力はもっていない

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Transporter	--
Japanese	輸送隊	Officially romanized as Transporter; literally "transport party", which is the same name as the convoy mechanic.
Spanish	Mercader	Merchant
French	Marchand	Shopkeeper
German	Transporter	Transporter; shortened as "Transport." in-game.
Italian	Corriere	Carrier

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