The Monk is a combat magical class that is introduced in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. Wielding Light magic as their sole weapon of choice, Monks are commonly armed with the tomes of Lightning and Shine, but will, on occasion, carry advanced tomes such as Aura as well.

The Monk class's equivalent in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is the Light Mage class, one that is exclusive to Micaiah.

Overview

Combat

Statistically, player-controlled monks tend to be extremely similar to Mages with higher Resistance and slightly lower Defense. Curiously, though users of Light Magic often have high Luck, both playable monks have below-average luck.

Enemy Monks tend to be weaker than enemy Mages in virtually every area aside from Resistance. Their Magic growth in particular is extremely inadequate, falling a full 25% beneath that of the standard Mage. This problem is exacerbated by the lower Might and (ironically) heavier weight of Light tomes, as well as the relative scarcity of Dark magic carriers, the only units they will ever achieve a Weapon Triangle Advantage over. As a result of these shortcomings, enemy Monks are among the weakest enemies in the series, their only real asset being their ability to occasionally score moderately painful critical hits against units with low Luck and Resistance. They are slightly more dangerous in The Sacred Stones than in The Blazing Blade because tactician stars, which lower the odds of an enemy scoring a critical hit, do not exist in the former.

Promotion

Monks, like Priests, can promote into Bishops. As Bishops, they are permitted to wield Staves alongside Light Magic, allowing them to further aid their allies through healing and support magic.

In The Sacred Stones, Monks also gain Slayer upon promotion into Bishops, a skill that grants them the ability to inflict effective damage against Monster-based enemies. They are also given the additional option to promote into Sages, a class that lets them wield not just Staves and Light magic, but also Anima magic.

In Three Houses and Three Hopes, Monks, due to them being part of the Beginner Class curriculum, serve as the base class for the more advanced magic-using classes. As such, Monks can promote to either Mage or Priest.

Class Mastery

In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, mastery of the class grants a unit the abilities Magic +2 and Draw Back. However, to access this class, a level 5 Commoner or Noble class unit must have a Beginner Seal and have a Reason or Faith Weapon Rank of D or higher and take the Certification Exam.

The monk class is the only beginner class to have access to reason and faith skills. This, in conjunction with the Magic +2 skill, makes monks the perfect class for any magic-oriented noble or commoner to promote to.

In-Game

Base Stats

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE7	18	-	1	1	2	0	1	5	5	6	-	E	-
FE8	18	-	1	1	2	0	1	5	5	6	-	E	-
FE16	20	4	8	6	6	4	3	4	4	-	-	D D	0

Maximum Stats

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE7	60	-	20	20	20	30	20	20	15	20	-	A	-
FE8	60	-	20	20	20	30	20	20	15	20	-	A	-

Growth Rates

	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Wt	Wlv	Cha
FE7	50%	-	30%	35%	32%	45%	8%	40%	-	-	-	-	-
FE8	50%	-	30%	35%	32%	45%	8%	40%	-	-	-	-	-
FE16	5%/10%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	5%/20%	-	-	-	+1 +1	5%

Class Modifiers

Class Skills

	Skill	Requirements
FE16	Magic +2 Draw Back	Class Mastery. Class Mastery.
FEW3H	Bow Buster Lv 1 Res +2 Trust Faith Prowess Heal Fire Thunder Wind Blizzard	Class skill. 1-star Class Mastery for certain units. 1-star Class Mastery for certain units. 2-star Class Mastery for all units. 3-star Class Mastery for most units. 3-star Class Mastery for Mercedes. 3-star Class Mastery for Rodrigue and Manuela. 3-star Class Mastery for Linhardt and Flayn. 3-star Class Mastery for Marianne.

Promotions

	Base Class	Promotion Method	Promoted Class
FE7	Monk	Use a Guiding Ring on a Level 10+ Monk.	Bishop
FE8	Monk	Use a Guiding Ring on a Level 10+ Monk.	Bishop Sage
FE16	Any class	Use a Beginner Seal on a Level 5+ unit and pass the Monk Certification Exam.	Monk
FEW3H	Monk	Use an Intermediate Seal on a unit that has mastered the Monk class.	Priest Mage

Notable Monks

The Blazing Blade

• Lucius - A monk who follows the religion conceptualized after the teachings of Saint Elimine.

The Sacred Stones

• Artur - A monk from Renais.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

• Aelfric - A cardinal of the Church of Seiros and overseer of the Abyss under orders from the Church.

Trivia

• In the GBA games, the monk's generic enemy portrait is shared with that of Priests and Clerics. The portrait displays a person in white robes carrying a staff; this is incorrect in the case of the Monk, owing to the fact that the class is not able to use staves.
• Prior to Three Houses there were only two playable monks in the entire series, one in each of the two games they appeared in.

Gallery

Concept artwork of the male Monk class from Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

Concept artwork of the female Monk class from Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

Generic class portrait of a Monk from the GBA games.

Battle model of a male Monk in Fire Emblem Three Houses

Battle model of a female Monk in Fire Emblem Three Houses

Unique battle animation of Lucius, a Monk from The Blazing Blade.

Battle animation of Artur, a Monk from The Sacred Stones.

Map sprite of the Monk class.

A female Monk in Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes.