Blazing Sword

Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword
The Tactician

Credits: Nitrodon (Tactician points)

When you start a new game, you will be prompted to make a profile for yourself, as the Tactician of the protagonists' army. If you're starting Eliwood or Hector's story, you can skip making a Tactician, while it's compulsory for Lyn's story.

Profile settings

Name: It doesn't matter what you choose here. The default name is "Mark".
Birth month: This affects the Tactician's elemental Affinity. If a character's Affinity matches with the Tactician, they receive a minor statistical boost.
Gender: Depending on which you choose, it slightly affects how characters address the Tactician.

You can view this information from the Fortune-Tactician window during Battle Preparations (the option will appear once you've reached a certain stage in the game).

Tactician Affinity

Note: This applies for the English version only. The Japanese version included an additional setting, Blood type, which was also a deciding factor.

January Light	February Ice	March Wind	April Thunder	May Wind	June Anima
July Fire	August Dark	September Fire	October Anima	November Ice	December Thunder

Tactician Stars

In the Fortune-Tactician window, one star is awarded for every 12 Tactician points obtained. Tactician points are added at the end of the each chapter, the amount depending on the Overall Rank obtained for that individual chapter:

0 for E Rank, 1 for D Rank, 2 for C Rank, 3 for B Rank, 4 for A Rank and 5 for S Rank

The maximum obtainable stars is 10.

For each Tactician star, all playable characters receive +1 Critical Evade. Playable characters with the same Affinity as the Tactician receive an additional +1 Accuracy and +1 Avoid for each star.

Other effects

When the Tactician is present, some characters will briefly speak to the Tactician when the battle begins. The character that appears depends on the current chapter you're in.

At the end of Chapter 22 (Eliwood's story) or Chapter 23 (Hector's story), or the corresponding sidequest chapter if you chose to accept it, you will obtain the Afa's Drops item. However, you will only obtain it if the Tactician is present. The Afa's Drops increases a character's growth rates by +5% to every stat.

There are two slightly different versions of the Epilogue, depending on whether the Tactician is present or not.

Not an effect

Some guides claim that characters with the same Affinity as the Tactician have all their growth rates increased by 5%. This isn't true.

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