Aimee's shop menu in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.
The Shop (市肆) is a facility found throughout the Fire Emblem series.
Overview[]
While there are specialty shops in the series, such as armories, general goods shops also exist, and are typically where the player can buy Staves and healing items such as vulneraries and elixirs. In older Fire Emblem titles, shops are only available during specific battles where they can be found on the battlefield. Later games, however, include shops either as facilities that can be visited from a menu between battles, or at friendly locations such as My Castle in Fire Emblem Fates, Garreg Mach Monastery in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, or the Somniel in Fire Emblem Engage. Most on-map shops offer +5 to 10 avoid on their territory when a unit is positioned on its map space.
The selection of items a shop has for sale depends on the game, as well as the point in the game that the player has reached. Shops may sell a variety of staves, healing and protective items, keys for unlocking doors or chests, and promotional items. Secret Shops, which only appear in some games, usually sell rarer items than standard shops. The shops in some games also may offer special deals or discounts on certain items. If the player has acquired a Silver Card, prices at shops will receive a universal discount.
Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake are the only two titles in the series that do not have shops, but there are blacksmiths where gold can be spent.
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is the first title in the series to allow the player to visit shops via a world map between battles. Armories and secret shops can also be visited in the same fashion.
In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, the shop will also have special deals on rare items.
In Fire Emblem Fates, the shop can only be accessed in My Castle after being built there. There are two versions of the shop: the Rod Shop for Hoshido and the Staff Shop for Nohr. Shop discounts may occur from time to time and are determined by which of the player's units is currently running the shop. Fates is also the first game in the series in which stat-boosting and promotion items are sold at a standard shop.
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