Valkyrie
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Valkyries are the promoted version of the Troubadour class, introduced in Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi. Clerics can also promote to the class in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. They both need a Guiding Ring and to be of levels 10 and up. They are usually used as healers but can also use Light magic or Anima magic in a pinch. As they are on horseback, they can move more spaces than Bishops; however, stat-wise, they are like Bishops but with a higher speed and less resistance.
In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, they reappear but they can wield swords instead of magic. They use anima magic in Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken and Fūin no Tsurugi and light magic in The Sacred Stones. As far as their battle roles go, they are more suited to kill enemy magic-users.
[edit] Characters of this Class
Valkyries first appeared in Fūin no Tsurugi, the playable Valkyries in this game were Clarine (a troubadour who could promote into a Valkyrie) and Cecilia (a pre-promoted Valkyrie).
In Rekka no Ken, Priscilla was the game's only possible playable Valkyrie (she was a troubadour who could promote to a Valkyrie) but an enemy Valkyrie, Ursula, featured as one of the main antagonists in the game.
Valkyries returned in The Sacred Stones, however in this game they used light magic instead of anima magic and they were a possible promoted form of clerics as well as troubadours. The Valkyrie class appears as one of the optional promotions of L'Arachel (a troubadour) and Natasha (a cleric).
Mist is the only playable Valkyrie in Path of Radiance; she can promote to a Valkyrie from a Cleric and gains the use of swords upon promotion (rather than magic). Strangely, Valkyries don't count as horseback units even though they have most of the properties as them (thus they receive no effective damage from horse-killing weapons like horseslayer).
Mist returned in Radiant Dawn as the game's only playable Valkyrie. However, she can use both swords and staves, and gains a mount upon promotion to Valkyrie.
[edit] Etymology
In Norse mythology, Valkyries were warrior-maidens and the handmaidens of Odin who rode through battlefields (either on horseback, wolves, or by flying) and brought the worthiest warriors among the slain to Valhalla, the heroes' heaven. They are associated with both ravens and swans. The name means "chooser of the slain."
