Want students from other Houses to join yours?
A key element of your time with Fire Emblem: Three Houses will be recruiting other students to join your House. Yes, while you must make the all important decision of which House to pick early on in the game, all the students at Garreg Mach Monastery can be a bit more fluid as they go through their academic adventure. Of course, this means you can often fill your House with the characters you want, rather than the default assortment found in the beginning. While each student is unique we wanted to go over some general guidelines for how to recruit other students in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
How to Recruit Other Students
As I said, each student at Garreg Mach Monastery is unique. How you will recruit them can be totally different from one to the other, but the method is pretty much the same at its core. I’ll also list off the specifics later on and we may break these down further, so check back for updates as we spend more time with the game. With that said, here’s a rundown of the methods used to recruit other students in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
Basically you need to spend time with any particular student you want to recruit and get to know them. Each student at the Monastery has specific traits that they are looking for in their potential leader. Fulfill those traits while also ingratiating yourself with whomever you wish to recruit and you’ll be able to get anyone to join your House. Well, not anyone as some students, including all House Leaders are not recruitable due to story purposes. So if you went with the Blue Lion House don’t think you can get on Edelgard’s good side and bring her over to your crew. You can’t, but you can grab some of the other students in the Black Eagle or Golden Deer.
As I said, to do this you’ll want to spend time with the particular student you wish to recruit. Invite them to tea, join them for choir practice, and always look for them and speak with them while exploring the Monastery. You should also be sure to return any Lost Items to them and give them Gifts they’ll enjoy. Talking to them will often give you an idea of what they are looking for, but you can also just choose the Recruit option in the dialogue tree to have the game explain it to you. Once you do this you’ll see which stats the specific student wants. To recruit them you’ll just need to raise those stats for yourself by choosing activities that build them up. Here’s a rundown of what some students are looking for…
Alois – Story Related Ashe – Chraisma and Lance Bernadetta – Strength and Bow Caspar – Strength and Brawl Catherine – Level Related Cyril – Story Related Dorothea – Charisma and Authority Felix – Speed and Sword Ferdinand – Dexterity and Heavy Armor Flayn – Story Related Hanneman – Story and/or Level Hilda – Charisma and Axe Ignatz – Dexterity and Authority Ingrid – Dexterity and Flying Leonie – Strength and Lance Lindhardt – Magic and Reason Lorenz – Charisma and Reason Lysithea – Magic and Faith Marianne – Magic and Riding Mercedes – Magic and Bow Petra – Dexterity and Riding Raphael – Strength and Heavy Armor Seteth – Story Related Shamir – Level Related Sylvain – Charisma and Reason
- This article was updated on July 29th, 2019
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