There are 13 children in Fire Emblem Awakening, all of which can be unlocked as playable Characters via marriage. The children can be acquired in Paralogues , or Side Missions, appearing after the corresponding mother (or your main character, aka My Unit ) gets married and you complete Chapter 13 .

While characters of all sexes can be paired up, for two characters to get married in Fire Emblem's medieval scenario, they must be of the opposite sex. Only certain mothers may have offspring (listed below). To make a marriage happen, you must simply pair up characters on the battlefield repeatedly to improve their relationship status. Once the relationship status reaches "S" rank, the characters will marry, if able.

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After marriage, you can recruit your pair's children in Paralogues on the world map. If you don't marry off your characters, many of Fire Emblem Awakening's Paralogues (Side Quests) will not be available to play.

It should be noted that at any time two characters are married (reach the "S" rank) after chapter 13, their corresponding child's Paralogue chapter will instantly appear on the world map. Therefore, with the exception of Chrom, it is not necessary to reach an "S" rank with the potential parents before the completion of chapter 13.

Notes:

Both Chrom and the My Unit character have the ability to have two children, but a female My Unit can have two children only if paired with Chrom.

All children are recruited at level 10

Children characters can reach "S" ranks as well (marry each other), but cannot have children, unless married to My Unit

All children begin with "C" rank support to both parents and any siblings (if applicable)

Children's Classes, Stats and Skills

Children get their parents' last equipped skill (remember that you can rearrange skills using the "Equip Skills" command, the lowest skill on the list is inherited) except for Chrom's children and Inigo - Chrom's daughters get the "Aether" skill, and Chrom's sons get the "Rightful King" skill. Olivia's "Secret Dance" skill cannot be passed to Inigo, as it is locked to the Dancer class. Make sure you carefully consider which skills you are passing on. This allows for some creative customization by the player. For instance, if the mother can become a Dark Flier, you should pass the Dark Flier's Lv15 skill "Galeforce" along. You could also potentially pass "Astra" to a Taguel, both "Sol" and "Luna" to a Knight, or even "Lethality" to a Priest.

Skills are passed on to the child when the paralogue chapter is started, not when it appears on the map. Therefore, skill acquisition in the parents can continue after the "S" rank has been acheived as long as the paralogue has not been completed.

If a daughter's father is a male main character, Gaius, or Donnel, the daughter can become a Pegasus Knight. If the daughter's father is Vaike, the daughter can become a Mercenary. The Mercenary class is extremely useful (because of the "Armsthrift" skill and "Sol" skill). Therefore, you should consider carefully about the spouses of My Unit, Gregor, and Donnel.

Children's available Classes are classes which either their father or mother can become (except for male-only or female-only classes. The male-only or female-only classes are changed to corresponding sex-only classes). Additionally, any child produced from your My Unit character will have the ability to change to any class (excluding gender-specific classes).

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Children's base stats and growth rates are the same as the mother, but they inherit the sum of both parents' stat modifiers +1 (the green + numbers). Aesthetically, the children will always have the the hair color of the father (except Morgan).

List of Children

The following graphic is an example of parental matching as to unlock all children available - these particular pairings are not the only possibilities. See below for more info about each child.

Original version of Parent Chart by SlashReturns [1]

Here are the 13 children you can recruit in Fire Emblem Awakening. They are based on a single parent, usually the mother, as listed below.

Parent: Chrom

Class: Lord

Recruited: Automatically after completion of Chapter 13

WARNING: Chrom gets married after you complete Chapter 11, so develop a relationship early!

Due to Lucina's join time, it is recommended that you get any skills you wish Lucina to have on her parents through the additional SpotPass, DLC, or Reeking Box grinding. Having a character with both Aether and Galeforce at LV10 (Ripe for promotion!) this early in the game is insane.

If you chose female MyUnit, Lucina can do everything. No, seriously, everything. Also, Morgan becomes much stronger thanks to Rightful King access.

If you chose Sully, Lucina cannot become a Pegasus Knight. Therefore, Galeforce cannot be acquired. However, there are plenty of dodge skills and firepower-support skills.

If you chose Maribelle, abandon Falchion and become a magic attacker.

If you chose Sumia, Lucina can be passed down Galeforce or acquire it on her own. Due to having access to Aether already, it is not really worth going after any additional attack skills, as this pairing grants a high enough skill for Aether to trigger about 1/4th of the time.

If you chose Olivia (which is hard), Lucina can be devastating with multiple high-activation chance attack skills, and Inigo gains access to Rightful King Royal Weapon, increasing the chances of his easy-to-get Sol activating. To ensure that you get Chrom to marry Olivia, make sure that Chrom never builds a support relationship with any of his other possible wives, even if it is just one heart, and then make Olivia Dance for him a few times in her joining chapter. (Even use Some Seeds of Trust, which may require a few because of the hidden affinity stats. One can be aquired via renoen at 210.

Doing Olivia isn't that hard. If you can wait it out, make sure NONE of your units, and I mean NONE, are in Gangrel's attack range, or the people who are super close around him ( the wyvern riders and stuff, depends which difficulty for who's there). Anyway, don't get in his attack range and just fight off the reinforcements from the fort. They stop coming by turn 11 (or so...I think) The you can have Olivia dance for Chrom repeatedly. Or, you can just pair her up with Chrom and have them attack 5 or so enemies. Make sure you have NO support convos filled out with the other candiddates and Olivia's the bride!

If you don't do these you get a generic townsgirl who screws Lucina over for you. DO NOT DO IT!!!!

Parent: My Unit

Class: Varies

Recruited: Paralogue 12; talk to with My Unit or Chrom

Morgan's gender is opposite from MyUnit's. Actually, MyUnit can become all classes except for sex-exclusive classes, Manakete, Taguel, Dancer, Villager, and Fighter. If MyUnit's partner can become such classes (except for Dancer and Lord), Morgan can become them (for example, female Morgan between male MyUnit and Nowi can become a Manakete). If the parent is Chrom, Olivia or Lucina, then Morgan will join as a Tactician with the Veteran skill as well as his/her inheritance.

One very important note is that Morgan can be the child of any character in the game - this includes units with an S relationship with MyUnit after Chapter 13 such as Anna, Basilio, Flavia, or even Walhart and Aversa (both of whom pass on exclusive skills). More importantly, MyUnit can marry "children" units (in this case, Morgan can be someone's grandchild).

These options mean that Morgan is potentially the strongest character in the game, if you pair up your characters wisely.

Note: It is not possible to utilize other "My Unit" characters in marriage, either through StreetPass or through your Avatar Logbook, to create an army of Morgans or other MyUnit children. All characters recruited through StreetPass, SpotPass, or your Avatar Logbook cannot engage in support conversations.

Morgan is a great choice for Dread Fighter/Bride.

Lucina as the Mother allows Chrom to be Morgans grandfather and Morgan will have acess to Aether, Galeforce, Ignis and really good stats. If the Avatar marries a child character Morgan will inherit growths of not two but four characters.

A good plan is to pass down Galeforce from a female Avatar to male Morgan;

Or Counter from a male Avatar to female Morgan.

Morgan's parents should be considered thoroughly. Great choices are:

Male Avatar and: Lucina, Cherche, Aversa, Flavia, Cordelia, Nowi, Olivia, Tiki, Anna, Nah

Female Avatar and: Chrom, Donnel, Walhart, Basilio, Owain, Inigo, Yarne, Gerome, Laurent

Parent: Lissa

Class: Myrmidon

Recruited: Paralogue 5; talk to with Lissa or Chrom

While Lissa is a magic fighter/healer (unless you reclassed her to War Cleric, which will give Owain some bonuses), Owain is Myrmidon. If his father is also a magic fighter, you should consider using a Second Seal to change his class, although there is a DLC that will give him access to the Demon Fighter class, which uses both Tomes and Swords; Lissa's high Magic makes him an ideal candidate.

Also, Lissa can become a Dark Flier. It is therefore possible for him to inherit Galeforce from Lissa, and an offensive move from his father, such as Sol, Luna etc. It is unnessecary to pass down Astra as Owain can easily obtain it on his own as a Swordmaster.

Quick note: IMO best father= Ricken. You make Owain a Sage ASAP for GODLY Mag. Seriously if you make Ricken the dad Owain is frickin broken as a Mage class.

NOTE: If Owain talks to the Green-Unit NPC in the southern house in his joining chapter, he will gain his own personal weapon, the Missiletainn. This is a very good sword for a character of his level, with a decent attack power and an additional +1 to Skill, which is nice to have. This can help compensate for Lissa's lack of physical abilities.

Parent: Sully

Class: Knight

Recruited: Paralogue 8; talk to with Sully or Chrom

Sully's available classes are Cavalier, Myrmidon, and Wyvern Rider.

Important thing: Sully is a candidate for Chrom's wife.

If you choose Frederick/Stahl as Kjelle's father, no more classes are available for her; you should avoid this pair unless you are certain that the available builds are what you want to go with. On the contrary, if you choose Donnel, there are 7 basic classes available, 6 of which are based on weapon attacks, which makes her capable of various situations. However, Donnel is extremely attractive for most "mothers", so don't jump in this pair without consideration.

Consider Kellam as a father for Kjelle. Sully and Kellam both give massive defense bosts to their children, giving Kjelle potentialy the highest defense in the game. Pass down Aegis to shave off magic damage and Miracle from Kellam if you reclass him to priest. Let her learn Renewal and Luna on her own and she will be an unbreakable wall capable of withstanding massive amounts of punishment.

Parent: Miriel

Class: Mage

Recruited: Paralogue 14; Miriel must visit nearby southwestern village

Miriel is a typical magic fighter (strong magic, weak defense). Her husband should enhance Laurent's magic, or support his weakness. Pairing Miriel with Kellam gives Laurent a much higher defense, increasing his general usefulness.

Pass down Lifetaker, Tomefaire etc.

Parent: Maribelle

Class: Priest

Recruited: Paralogue 7; talk to with Maribelle or Chrom

Brady can get useful skills such as Luna, Renewal, Aegis, and Life Absorb. However, since Maribelle is a healer, his defense may be weak.

Also, Maribelle has extremely high Luck, which is helpful when you use Armsthrift and Miracle.

In addition, Maribelle has the possibility to pass down Galeforce.

Brady is a potential son of Chrom, but Rightful King is mostly wasted on him, compared to Chrom's other potential children.

Parent: Panne

Class: Taguel

Recruited: Paralogue 13; talk to with Panne or Chrom

Although Taguels cannot be promoted using a Master Seal, there are some useful Second Seal classes that can be utilized to help Yarne's initial skill set. For instance, a Taguel with both Lethality and Astra (from the father) can be highly destructive. Alternatively, upon reaching the level cap of 30 for the Taguel race, it is possible to use a Second Seal to reset Yarne to LV1 Taguel and keep his current stats, allowing for an infinite loop until all of them are capped.

Parent: Cordelia

Class: Mercenary

Recruited: Paralogue 10; assist her in reaching the villager Holland

Since Cordelia can become a Pegasus Knight, Mercenary, and Dark Mage, Severa is one of the most useful characters in the game (she can be passed the coveted Galeforce skill). However, Cordelia lacks in attack skills, so you should choose someone who has such skills as her husband (a good example would be Lon'qu for Astra or MyUnit for any ability you please). Using a Second Seal and then turning Cordelia into a Dark Knight will allow Severa to get Slow Burn, and since most battles don't last more than 15 turns, it's useful.



Note: Be careful when you acquire her; on higher difficulties, it is easy for her to be terminated. Use strong units to take out enemies and clear the path for her. Also, use Rescue when necessary.

Parent: Nowi

Class: Manakete

Recruited: Paralogue 16; talk to with Nowi or Chrom

Nah is a powerful and flexible character, just like her mother. Choose her father to specialize one side of her: devastating firepower, or impregnable fortress. If her father is Donnel, and you pass down Aptitude, she becomes nigh-unstoppable in any shape or form, due to insanely high growths. Although, a male MyUnit is still the best option here. With MyUnit as her father she may reclass into almost any class. One of which includes the Dark Flier class which gives Nah access to Galeforce.

At level 30, if a Second Seal is used, not only can she revert back to a level 1 Manakete, she can also switch to a level 1 advanced class (e.g. - Assassin) that is available to her. The same is true for any Manakete or Taguel class.

Parent: Sumia

Class: Pegasus Knight

Recruited: Paralogue 9; talk to with Sumia or Chrom

We must note that Sumia's candidate husbands are a few, but include Chrom. Other candidates are male MyUnit, Frederick, Gaius, and Henry. There are slim choices, so choose her companion as soon as possible.

Cynthia is arguably one of the more powerful children, having access to Galeforce and Aether, just like Lucina if you pair Sumia with Chrom.

If you choose Henry, pass down Venegeance or Lifetaker.

If you choose Gaius, pass down Lethality.

If you choose Frederick, pass down Luna.

Parent: Olivia

Class: Mercenary

Recruited: Paralogue 6: talk to with Olivia or Chrom

Olivia is the Dancer, but Inigo cannot become a Dancer. However, his Mercenary class is extremely useful for many purposes. Before you acquire him, you should have Olivia get Galeforce so she can pass it on to him. Alternatively, have her pass down Astra (from the Swordmaster branch) or Luck+4 if you are too lazy to reclass her. (Special Dance cannot be passed down)

His available classes are Mercenary, Myrmidon, and Fighter. Any father will be okay for him, except for Gregor or Donnel (if you choose either of them, only a few extra classes are available).

Also: Olivia can marry Chrom. In this case, Lethality/Astra/Luna combined with the Rightful King skill make Inigo devastating.

If Lon'qu is the father, pass down Astra or Lethality.

Be warned, Paralogue 6 is perhaps the most difficult child recruitment chapter. Bring plenty of armor-busters and an Archer or two, and make sure to feed Inigo some kills for some sweet extra gear at the end.

Parent: Cherche

Class: Wyvern Rider

Recruited: Paralogue 11; talk to with Cherche or Chrom

Cherche has high Strength, so enhance Gerome's Strength to inflict lethal damage to enemies. He also has some of the highest growths in the game, and becomes insanely good if granted access to Aptitude through Donnel.

Gerome benefits well from breaker skills, so pass down Bowbreaker if you choose Virion.

If you choose the Avatar, pass down Ignis.

Parent: Tharja

Class: Archer

Recruited: Paralogue 15; joins automatically on turn 2

Noire can learn various attack and defense skills on her own.

But remember: Tharja's Luck status is weak. Be careful for enemies' critical hits! You can counter this by pairing her with Libra or Donnel.