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Ovate
September 23, 2026 at 07:19 AM
Reconciled the Reason and Black Magic naming with the released skill list; dated open gaps
The Ovate is an Advanced magical class introduced in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. Its in-game description reads: "A black-magic user who deals high amounts of damage, cutting through heavy armor." It is the class Hong Hua starts the game in.
Field | Value |
|---|---|
Tier | Advanced |
Unit type | Infantry |
Movement | 5 |
Proficiency | Reason |
Role | Offensive magic |
Class skills | Black-Magic Seeker, Magic Hit +5, Bind Speed |
Japanese name | ウァテス (Watesu), Vates |
The class sits on the offensive side of the game's magic system. Its proficiency is Reason, the attacking school, as opposed to the Faith proficiency that the Bishop, War Monk and Guardian lines build on. The class description and the exam screen both say black magic, while pre-launch footage read the proficiency listed on the class itself as Reason. The released game's skill list, as it appears on the experience bonuses bought with Karma Shards, names the category Black Magic and has no Reason entry, so Black Magic is the retail English term; Reason is kept here as the reading earlier footage gave.
Cutting through heavy armor is the practical point of the class. Physical attacks are the wrong tool against the armored classes, and an Ovate answers them where an axe or a lance struggles, which puts it opposite the Dreadnought and the Armored Knight on a battlefield.
Skill | How It Is Learned |
|---|---|
Black-Magic Seeker | Innate |
Magic Hit +5 | Innate |
Bind Speed | Class mastery, at an unpublished class experience cost |
Magic Hit +5 is the only one of the three with a number attached, and as of September 2026 this wiki has recorded only the names of the other two. Bind Speed sits in the mastery slot and unlocks only once the class has been mastered.
The Ovate is the one documented Advanced class with a primary requirement and no secondaries: Black Magic at B, listed elsewhere as Reason B. Like every Advanced class shown so far it is also reported to want a Renown level of at least 8 and a recommended character level of 35, both provisional figures read off a menu screen. The mechanic itself is covered on Certification Exams.
Ovate is another word for the vates, a class of seers and sacrificers in Gaulish society, and the Japanese name is that same word transcribed. It is a priestly title rather than a military one, which sets the class apart from the soldier-derived names elsewhere on the roster.
As of September 2026, no base stats, growth rates or stat modifiers for the Ovate have appeared on any class screen. The movement value above is the only figure available, and every stat table for the class is currently empty. See Classes for the wider tier structure.
For the unit who starts the game in this class, see Hong Hua, and for the armored class it is built to punch through, see Dreadnought. Guardian is the Faith-proficiency Advanced class on the other side of the magic split, and the casting economy both draw on is on Magic.
