How to Recruit All Playable Characters

Plenty of new and returning faces from Fire Emblem: Three Houses appear as playable characters in Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (FEW3H). Read on to learn more about all of the characters you can unlock and play as per route!

How to Recruit Every Playable Character

All Unlockable Characters Per Route

The chapter listed is where the character can be recruited for that respective route. You may sort the characters alphabetically, or by route chapter by clicking each column's header.

Character	Scarlet Blaze	Azure Gleam	Golden Wildfire
Shez	Chapter 00: Crossed Roads	Chapter 00: Crossed Roads	Chapter 00: Crossed Roads
Edelgard	Chapter 03: The Shadows of Adrestia	Unrecruitable in this path.	Unrecruitable in this path.
Dimitri	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 03: Crisis in Fhirdiad	Unrecruitable in this path.
Claude	Unrecruitable in this path.	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 03: The Battle for the Locket
Hubert	Chapter 03: The Shadows of Adrestia	Unrecruitable in this path.	Unrecruitable in this path.
Ferdinand	Chapter 03: The Shadows of Adrestia	Unrecruitable in this path.	Unrecruitable in this path.
Linhardt	Chapter 03: The Shadows of Adrestia	Chapter 11: Reprisal	Chapter 04: To War! (Golden Wildfire)
Caspar	Chapter 03: The Shadows of Adrestia	Unrecruitable in this path.	Unrecruitable in this path.
Bernadetta	Chapter 03: The Shadows of Adrestia	Chapter 06: Conspiracy in the Air	Chapter 06: The Leader's Stratagem
Dorothea	Chapter 03: The Shadows of Adrestia	Chapter 05: Skirmish in the Fog (Azure Gleam)	Chapter 13: Darkness Attacks
Petra	Chapter 03: The Shadows of Adrestia	Chapter 04: To War! (Azure Gleam)	Chapter 07: A Contest of Beasts
Monica	Chapter 03: The Shadows of Adrestia	Unrecruitable in this path.	Unrecruitable in this path.
Dedue	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 03: Crisis in Fhirdiad	Unrecruitable in this path.
Felix	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 03: Crisis in Fhirdiad	Unrecruitable in this path.
Ashe	Chapter 05: Skirmish in the Fog (Scarlet Blaze)	Chapter 03: Crisis in Fhirdiad	Chapter 11: The Sword Swings Wide
Sylvain	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 03: Crisis in Fhirdiad	Unrecruitable in this path.
Mercedes	Chapter 08: The Maiden's Peril	Chapter 03: Crisis in Fhirdiad	Unrecruitable in this path.
Annette	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 03: Crisis in Fhirdiad	Unrecruitable in this path.
Ingrid	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 03: Crisis in Fhirdiad	Unrecruitable in this path.
Rodrigue	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 03: Crisis in Fhirdiad	Unrecruitable in this path.
Hilda	Unrecruitable in this path.	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 03: The Battle for the Locket
Lorenz	Chapter 06: Bridge of Betrayal	Chapter 09: Reunion at the Fortress City	Chapter 03: The Battle for the Locket
Raphael	Chapter 07: The Triumph of Valor	Chapter 09: Reunion at the Fortress City	Chapter 03: The Battle for the Locket
Ignatz	Chapter 06: Bridge of Betrayal	Chapter 09: Reunion at the Fortress City	Chapter 03: The Battle for the Locket
Lysithea	Chapter 07: The Triumph of Valor	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 03: The Battle for the Locket
Marianne	Chapter 07: The Triumph of Valor	Chapter 09: Reunion at the Fortress City	Chapter 03: The Battle for the Locket
Leonie	Chapter 12: The Rising Darkness	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 03: The Battle for the Locket
Holst	Unrecruitable in this path.	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 05: The Golden Guardian
Yuri	Chapter 10: Shifting History	Chapter 09: Reunion at the Fortress City	Chapter 10: Love and Loss
Balthus	Chapter 06: Bridge of Betrayal	Chapter 10: Fanaticism	Chapter 05: The Golden Guardian
Constance	Chapter 04: The Struggle Commences	Chapter 11: Reprisal	Chapter 09: The End of the Alliance
Hapi	Chapter 04: The Struggle Commences	Chapter 04: To War! (Azure Gleam)	Chapter 09: The End of the Alliance
Seteth	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 05: Skirmish in the Fog (Azure Gleam)	Unrecruitable in this path.
Flayn	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 05: Skirmish in the Fog (Azure Gleam)	Unrecruitable in this path.
Manuela	Chapter 04: The Struggle Commences	Unrecruitable in this path.	Unrecruitable in this path.
Jeritza	Chapter 04: The Struggle Commences	Chapter 13: Clash of Torment	Unrecruitable in this path.
Catherine	Unrecruitable in this path.	Chapter 09: Reunion at the Fortress City	Unrecruitable in this path.
Shamir	Chapter 09: Unrest in Enbarr	Chapter 09: Reunion at the Fortress City	Chapter 03: The Battle for the Locket
Byleth (F)	Chapter 10: Shifting History	Chapter 12: A Trick of the Goddess	Chapter 10: Love and Loss
Jeralt	Chapter 10: Shifting History	Chapter 12: A Trick of the Goddess	Chapter 10: Love and Loss

Recruitment Guide: How to Recruit Units

All Secret Characters

Purchased with Renown

Rhea

Sothis

Arval

Rhea, Sothis, and Arval are secret unlockable characters that do not need to be recruited. Instead you'll have to complete the game at least once, and unlock them using Renown from your personal quarters in the camp. They each cost 60 Renown to unlock.

Renown Farming Guide
How to Get Renown Fast

Gatekeeper

The fan-favorite Gatekeeper of Garreg Mach has also been spotted as a playable character! He is automatically playable at the start of the following chapters after your third New Game Plus playthrough of the game. No dialogue and added steps needed.

Character	Scarlet Blaze	Azure Gleam	Golden Wildfire
Gatekeeper	Chapter 04: The Struggle Commences	Chapter 05: Skirmish in the Fog (Azure Gleam)	Chapter 04: To War! (Golden Wildfire)

All Non Recruitable Characters

Non-Playable Characters

Members of Garreg Mach

Gilbert	Alois	Hanneman
Anna	Cyril

Other characters like those from Garreg Mach have returned to the game. They do not seem to be playable, but they appear in certain chapters either as an NPC in the camp, in cutscenes with other playable and non-playable characters, or as enemy generals in the battlefield.

Those Who Slither in the Dark

Kronya	Solon	Thales
Cornelia	Metoday

Just like the previous games, Those Who Slither in the Dark make an appearance and sow chaos in Fodlan. They are not playable characters and instead are featured in different cutscenes, or as enemy generals during quests.

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