Summoner
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Summoners are one of the promotions available for Shamans in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, the other one being Druid.
They can summon Phantom minions to fight for them and they are also quite skilled in using Dark Magic themselves. They can also use staves. In The Sacred Stones, there are two possible summoners, Ewan, who starts as a Pupil, and Knoll, who starts as a Shaman. There is only one other class that can summon phantoms, which is Necromancer, unique to Lyon. As their level goes higher the phantoms they summon become more powerful.
Summoners were originally introduced to the game for two reasons; to give Dark Magic Users a second choice of promotion (seeing as The Sacred Stones used a branched promotion system), and also to create a new Dark magic Class, seeing as only Shamans and Druids could use Dark Magic Tomes (and a few unique classes: Archsage, Necromancer, etc...).
Statistically Summoners are inferior to Druids in their stats and growths, except for their skill stat. This can be attributed to the fact Summoners have more options in battle, due to the Summon Command. Most people choose to promote Knoll to Summoner (as opposed to Ewan) so as not to ruin Ewan's massive potential stat growths. In Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, only one Phantom can only be of the field.
In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn a single Summoner makes an appearance, although he is not playable. This Summoner is Izuka. Instead of summoning Phantoms like Summoners in The Sacred Stones, Izuka summons Feral Laguz. Izuka can summon four Feral Laguz per turn, this as opposed to the single Phantom previous summoners could summon.
[edit] Promotion
They are the promoted forms of Shamans and so cannot be promoted themselves. To promote a Shaman into a summoner, the item Guiding Ring is necessary.
