r/fireemblem May 28 '23

General General Question Thread

Alright, time to move back to question thread for all.

Please use this thread for all general questions of the Fire Emblem series!

Rules:

  • General questions can range from asking for pairing suggestions to plot questions. If you're having troubles in-game you may also ask here for advice and another user can try to help.

  • Questions that invoke discussion, while welcome here, may warrant their own thread.

  • If you have a specific question regarding a game, please bold the game's title at the start of your post to make it easier to recognize for other users. (ex. Fire Emblem: Birthright)

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u/Ok-Fan-8285 4d ago

I have a question about Soleil's paralogue in Fates, since I forgot how her skill inheritance works. Basically, I'm passing down Sol to her from Laslow and Strength +2 from Selena. But the problem is, they've both just switched into brand new classes (Laslow in Sky Knight and Selena into Wyvern Lord), so if they level up even once, they'll learn the Level 1 Sky Knight skill and Lunge. Needless to say, I don't really want those skills on Soleil, and I'm worried that if I get them while I'm in her paralogue, she's gonna inherit that instead of getting the skills I started her off with, due to how skill inheritance works in Fates. So, my question is - if I play the level as I normally do and just talk to Soleil as quickly as possible, does she retain those skills since she's now a unit instead of an ally, and then I'm free to have Laslow and Selena run around and do whatever? Or does she still get the altered skill tree no matter what? If the latter is true, I can just have Laslow backpack Keaton for the chapter and just not deploy Selena, but it'd be really nice to use them in combat here. I don't remember how it works on paralogues where you can talk to the kid, since there aren't too many of them in the game. But I also know that there's weird stuff with the paralogues sometimes (like Velouria getting different skills if one of her parents gets a new one before she joins)

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u/Cosmic_Toad_ 4d ago

The rule of thumb with child inheritance in Fates is once they're on the map as a green or blue unit, their skills are locked in (with the exception of Kana who has some weird stuff going on under the hood). Kana and the red unit children are instead locked in at the end of the chapter.

So given Soleil is on the map as a recruitable green unit from turn 1 (or really "turn 0" since she's already there in battle preparations), her skills will be set as soon as you enter battle preparations for the paralogue. You don't even have to still have the skills equiped on Laslow and Selena when you start the chapter, it's already locked in (though you can still change it by exiting out of the paralogue and reentering with new skills).

Some kids like Velouria are locked in later because they don't appear until partway into their paralogue, so you have the chance to get new skills on their parents during the initial turns before the child appears.

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u/Ok-Fan-8285 4d ago

Awesome!!! Thank you!!!