Master Seal

Master Seal
The Master Seal releasing its energy in Awakening.
First Seen	Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
Item Type	Promotional Item
Effect	Promotes all Level 10+ units, save for those with scripted promotions
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“An item that promotes a lesser-class unit at level 10 or above to a higher class.”
—In-game description, Shadow Dragon and New Myster of the Emblem

The Master Seal (マスタープルフ Masutā purufu, lit. Master Proof) is a promotional item that recurs across the Fire Emblem Series, indiscriminately permitting all first tier units Level 10 and above to be promoted into their respective second-tier classes, save for those with scripted promotions.

In Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, the Master Seal is known as the Earth Seal (地の刻印 Chi no kokuin), in contrast to the Heaven Seal, which is used to promote Lords. The item does not promote characters of the Pirate or Thief class lines, and the Ocean Seal and Fell Contract are respectively required instead. In more recent titles in the series, the Master Seal also works on these classes.

The Master Seal is more useful in the games that utilise a promotion system where an entire spectrum of items exists, each one serving the purpose of promoting units in very specific class lines (Eg: The Knight Crest is designed to promote Cavaliers and Knights). In the games where promotions occur automatically (Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn), promotion items are only used for promoting earlier than Level 20. Since early promotion leads to lower maximum stats, doing so is not very useful in the long term, although it can serve as a sort of quick-fix when the player desires a specific unit to promote immediately and not have to spend time and resources building experience in order to nurture them to reach Level 21. Alternatively, one can use Master Seals on Level 20 units in order to save experience, since promotion by level causes the player to lose one full level of potential growths in the various key stats.

Item Information

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776

Name	Uses	Worth	Effect(s) / Note(s)
Master Proof	1	8,000	No effect (Unused).

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade

Name	Uses	Worth	Effect(s) / Note(s)
Earth Seal	1	20,000	Promotes all Level 10+ first-tier units (excluding Thieves, Pirates and Lords).

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

“For some units Lv. 10 and up who have not changed class.”
—In-game description

Name	Uses	Worth	Effect(s) / Note(s)
Master Seal	1	20,000	Promotes all Level 10+ first-tier units (excluding Lords).

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Name	Uses	Worth	Effect(s) / Note(s)
Master Seal	1	10,000	Promotes all Level 10+ first-tier units (excluding Ike).

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Name	Uses	Worth	Effect(s) / Note(s)
Master Seal	1	10,000	Promotes all Level 10+ first-tier units (excluding Micaiah).

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

Name	Uses	Worth	Effect(s) / Note(s)
Master Seal	1	2,500	Promotes all Level 10+ first-tier units (excluding Lords, Thieves, Ballisticians, Freelancers and Manaketes).

Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem

Name	Uses	Worth	Effect(s) / Note(s)
Master Seal	1	2,500	Promotes all Level 10+ first-tier units (excluding Lords, Thieves, Ballisticians, Dancers, Freelancers and Manaketes)

Fire Emblem Awakening

Name	Uses	Worth	Effect(s) / Note(s)
Master Seal	1	2,500	Promotes all Level 10+ first-tier units (excluding Dancers, Villagers, Taguels, Conquerors and Manaketes).

Fire Emblem Fates

Name	Uses	Worth	Effect(s) / Note(s)
Master Seal	1	2,000	Promotes a base class at LV 10 or higher to an advanced class (excluding the Songstress class).

Item Locations

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade

Method	Location
Steal	Eliwood's Story: Enemy Druid (Ch. 26)* Hector's Story: Enemy Druid (Ch. 28)*
Visit	Eliwood's Story: Ch. 23 - Village Hector's Story: Ch. 24 - Village
Event	Eliwood's Story: Ch. 30 - Start of chapter. Hector's Story: Ch. 32 - Start of chapter.
Secret Shops	Eliwood's Story: Ch. 30 Hector's Story: Ch. 32

*Hard Mode only.

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Method	Location
Inventories	Creature Campaign: Ismaire • Fado
Visit	Ch. 15 - Village
Treasure	Final - Chest

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Method	Location
Dropped	Danomill (Ch. 10) • Mackoya (Ch. 11)
Treasure	Ch. 21 - Chest

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Method	Location
Steal	Part 1: Enemy Soldier (Ch. 5)
Treasure	Part 1: Ch. 4 - Hidden in the corresponding map. Ch. 6-2 - Hidden in the corresponding map. Ch. 7 - Hidden in the corresponding map.
Bargains	Part 1: Ch. 9 • Endgame

Fire Emblem Fates

Method	Location
Dropped	Birthright: Ch. 9 • Ch. 11 • Ch. 15(2) • Ch. 19x2 • Ch. 20x2 • Ch. 21x2
Treasure	Revelation: Ch. 11
Vendor	Birthright: Vendor Level 1 (Two) • Vendor Level 2 (Five)