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11 Supports are the relationship system in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. They do two jobs. On the battle map, characters who have grown close hand each other a bonus for standing side by side. Off it, the same closeness unlocks conversations between them. Nintendo's dedicated presentation covers both halves, noting that adjacent allies can receive buffs during the positioning rundown, and that characters who have grown close may converse and show their support to each other at inns.
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33 On the Battle Map
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55 Adjacency drives the combat half. When two characters who have grown close stand beside each other, the interface shows the partner's portrait with a heart icon and a numeric level, and the bonus itself appears as a banner. Combat System covers where that sits among the other positioning rules.
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77 Pre-launch combat forecasts show the numeric level in use. The table below records what has actually been read off those screens.
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99 PairWhat the Screen ShowedTroy and EshmelA Level 1 support bonus, in a fight that appears to happen soon after Troy joinsHong Hua and EshmelA Level 1 support bonus already in placeTalimun and UrsulaA Level 1 supportPeter and UltandA support prompt appearing on the map when the two stand togetherOlympia and MuA support bonus picked up from Mu standing next to her
1010 As of September 2026, no official system explainer or presentation says what the bonus adds. No figures have appeared for any level, and no source states whether Level 1 is the floor for every pair or something a pair has to reach.
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1212 A second heart display appears on the map when a single unit is selected: markers over other units that cap at five and vanish when the selection moves. Nothing published explains what they count, so they are recorded here as an observed interface element rather than a described mechanic.
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1414 Raising a Support Level
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1616 ActivityWhat It DoesGiftsGiven to a character in Dagsion, capped to a set number of uses per weekShared mealsInviting a character to eat, likewise capped per weekCampfiresEating at a campfire restores HP and earns support pointsDungeon linksCoordinating a link with a party member is reported to raise the support level between the two, covered on Dungeons and ClashesAdventure Guide tasksGuide entries marked with a heart award support points when completed
1717 The Adventure Guide sorts its entries into Dagsion and world map categories and marks each one with a symbol for the reward it carries, hearts among them. World Map and Exploration and Between-Match Preparation cover where those activities sit in the time you have between matches.
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1919 Supports and Recruitment
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2121 A support level is one of two bars behind a successful recruitment, the other being Renown. Individual characters set their own minimums, and Ninae is cited as needing support level 3 before an attempt will land. The gifts and shared meals that raise a support level are the same ones the recruitment pitch uses, so the two systems run on one track. Recruitment covers the full sequence.
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2323 Support Conversations
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2525 Conversations are held at inns while time passes between matches. Each character has a support list screen showing their partners and which conversations are available.
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2727 The ranks seen so far are C, B and A, and coverage is uneven. Not every pair carries all three: some are missing a C conversation and some are missing an A. Some conversations are locked until a later point in the story. No rank above A has appeared on any published screen.
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2929 PairWhat Has Been ShownLeda and CaiListed on Leda's support listLeda and DietrichB and A conversations listedLeda and TheodoraListed on Leda's support listDietrich and EsmeraldaA conversation shown on camera, in which Esmeralda talks about visiting Dietrich's sister once he leaves DagdaDante and LedaA support conversation listed, with no dialogue publishedCatania and LedaA support chain listed, with no conversations shown
3030 Eshmel appears on at least one support list as a guest unit, carrying an A conversation and nothing below it. What that means for the protagonist's place in the system has not been explained.
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3232 How Far the System Goes
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3434 Accounts written from the finished game describe support levels running from 1 to 3, the same count as the C, B and A conversation ranks listed above, raised by the gifts and shared meals covered further up this page.
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3636 They also converge on the volume being thin. The number of conversations a character carries, and the number of pairs with a full chain behind them, is repeatedly described as modest against what the series has trained players to expect. There is no romance or marriage system attached either: a completed chain ends at the conversations and the map bonus, and nothing turns it into a pairing.
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3838 What Is Not Known
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4040 The bonus figures are the largest gap: as of September 2026, no official presentation, press release or system explainer gives the stat effect of any support level. The same surfaces carry no size for the weekly gift and meal caps, no point at which the time-locked conversations open, and no count of how many conversations a full chain runs to. None of them describes what a completed support leads to beyond the conversations themselves, and no rank above A has appeared on a published screen or in any account of the finished game. Every figure on this page that carries a number came from a menu or forecast screen read in pre-launch footage, so treat all of them as provisional until they are confirmed in the shipped game.
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4242 Related Pages
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4444 The positioning rules the adjacency bonus sits among are covered on Combat System. Inns, where the conversations are held, are part of the loop described on Between-Match Preparation. For how characters join the roster in the first place, see Recruitment.