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What weapons does the Bride class in Fire Emblem Awakening use?

In Fire Emblem Awakening, the Bride class, accessible only by female units, uses Lances, Bows, and Staves. Additionally, the Bridal Blade, a sword, is a weapon associated with this class. The Bride class is considered the female counterpart of the Dread Fighter class.

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How can a unit become a Bride class in Fire Emblem Awakening?

A unit in Fire Emblem Awakening can transition into a Bride class, a role that combines physical combat and magical support, by utilizing a Wedding Bouquet available through DLC. This class is exclusively accessible to female units and is equipped with Lances, Bows, and Staves. The Bride class is seen as the female counterpart of the Dread Fighter class. Upon reclassification into the Bride class, units can only reclass into a base class if they are at lower levels.

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What is the male equivalent of the Bride class in Fire Emblem Awakening?

The Dread Fighter class serves as the male counterpart to the Bride class in Fire Emblem Awakening. While the Bride class, which is a blend of physical combat and magical support, is exclusive to female units and requires DLC-exclusive Wedding Bouquets, the Dread Fighter class is its male equivalent.

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How is the Bride class's Experience Point gain calculated in Fire Emblem Awakening?

In Fire Emblem Awakening, the Bride class, despite having advanced class stat caps, gains Experience Points (EXP) like a base class. This means a unit reclassed to the Bride class can level up and improve stats faster than other advanced classes when combating similar caliber units. The unit ascends to the next level after amassing 100 points, with the number of points earned being contingent on the character's combat involvement.

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Is the Bride class in Fire Emblem Awakening accessible to male units?

In Fire Emblem Awakening, the Bride class is exclusively accessible to female units. This class, serving both physical combat and magical support roles, can be accessed through DLC-exclusive Wedding Bouquets. The Bride class, considered the female counterpart of the Dread Fighter class, is equipped with Lances, Bows, and Staves.

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History in the Series

The Bride class has only appeared in one game, Fire Emblem Awakening, as an optional DLC class. It is essentially the inverse of the Awakening variation of the Dread Fighter class as it is locked to female characters whereas the Dread Fighter is locked to male characters. Both each utilize three equipment that the other does not with the Bride utilizing Lances, Bows, and Staves.

According to the Bridal Variation of Cordelia in Fire Emblem Heroes, the Bride class is a legitimate combat class in Ylisse.

Overview

In general, the Bride Class is a universal class for all female characters of Awakening and is highly flexible as both an offensive and supportive unit. Lances gives them the ability to attack at both ranges with Javelins, especially Spears, as well as some other useful weapons for Magic oriented characters in the Shockstick. Other useful lances include the Killer Lance and Brave Lance for more physical characters. Bows also makes them great for swatting aerial units, though they cannot use the Longbow. Staves gives Brides supportive options to heal allies.

Their true strength lies in their two unique skills. Rally Heart is a variation of Rally Spectrum. While the boost to all stats are +2 rather than the latter's +4, the other huge benefit is the +1 to movement, which does stack on the boost from Rally Movement. It also stacks on Rally Spectrum, making it an extremely potent skill on female Robin, female Morgan, any other daughter of male Robin, and most female Einherjar. Aside from Lissa, Maribelle, Sumia, and Emmeryn, who already have five Rally skills in their default kits, Bride gives most of the other first generation females a fourth Rally skill or a third one. Their other skill Bond heals 10 HP to all allies within three spaces of them at the start of the Player Phase, which also stacks on Renewal's heal.

In-Game

Base Stats

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE13	21	7	6	11	10	0	7	6	6	-	-	E E E

Maximum Stats

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE13	80	40	39	42	42	45	41	40	6	-	-	A A A

Growth Rates

Class Skills

	Skill	Requirements
FE13	Rally Heart Bond	Learnt at Level 1. Learnt at Level 15.

Promotion

	Base Class	Promotion Method	Promoted Class
FE13	(Any female unit)	Use a Wedding Bouquet.	Bride

Non-Canon Appearances

Project X Zone 2

In Project X Zone 2, as part of Lucina's Right and Down attacks, she transforms into the Bride class, wielding Gradivus and a Brave Bow and using Astra as her Cross Special 2.

Fire Emblem Warriors

A Bride costume is available to Lucina in this game for those who purchase the DLC Season Pass. The costume is purely cosmetic and has no effect on Lucina's class or abilities.

A second Bride costume is available to Caeda by clearing A Brush in the Teeth, a History Mode map from the Shadow Dragon DLC Pack. Like Lucina's Bride costume, it is purely cosmetic and has no effect on Caeda's class or abilities.

Trivia

• In Awakening, the Bride class uses the Grandmaster's unused bow, staff, and lance animations, a trait shared by the Dread Fighter, which utilizes the Grandmaster's sword and tome animations, and the unused axe animation.
• Fire Emblem Heroes has annually released special variants of select characters dressed as brides in May, though they do not function as the Bride character class.
  • Released Brides include: Caeda, Lyn, Cordelia, Charlotte, Ninian, Sanaki, Tharja, Fjorm, Louise, Sigrun, Tanith, Micaiah, Nailah, Oboro, Catria, Shanna, Juno, Thea, Lilina, Cecilia, Sophia, Larum, Say'ri, Tiki (Archanea & Ylisse), Ylissean Anna, Flavia, Sharena, Veronica, Nel, Lapis, Julia, Ishtar, Larcei, Tine and Lana.

Gallery

Concept artwork of the Bride class.

Battle model of Lissa as a Bride.

Map sprite of Lucina as a Bride.