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Skills are the passive and triggered abilities a unit brings into a fight in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. Twenty-four have been named ahead of launch, sorted into personal skills, which belong to a single character, and combat skills, which are shared. Three named skills have a published effect. The rest are names on a roster, and this page lists them as names.

Personal Skills

Four personal skills appear on the roster. None of them has been matched to a character in released material.

Two more personal skills have been named outside that roster. Ursula's is Merchants' Manager, which lets her and nearby allies pull items out of Storage in the middle of a battle. Olympia's is Rivalry, which raises her critical rate when she attacks with magic.

Combat Skills

Twenty combat skills have been named. Two carry a published effect; the others are names with nothing attached.

The Documented Effects

Underworld Boon

Underworld Boon halves the damage its bearer takes, and the reduction drops away when the incoming attack is effective against them. It belongs to the underworld side of the board. Balor's forces carry it, and volunteering at the temple of Aurora earns a blessing that strips it for a turn, which is the clearest link the game has shown between Temple Blessings and the endgame enemy.

Cleansing Blade

Cleansing Blade negates an opponent's Underworld Boon, and its effect fires at the start of combat rather than on the swing. It is not on the roster of twenty-four; it was read off a combat forecast, first transcribed as Purifying Sword from earlier footage and then corrected once the English text was legible on screen. In the battle where it was seen, Ursula's opponent was one of the risen dead, and its Underworld Boon showed in the forecast as cancelled.

Rein

Rein inflicts Avoid -3 on adjacent foes. Preview footage shows Theodora unlocking it at rank D in Authority, the only case so far of a skill being tied to a specific weapon rank on screen.

Entries Read Off Combat Forecasts

The forecast lists every effect that applies to a unit in that exchange, which is where most of what is known about skills has come from. Several entries appear there that are not on the named roster.

The number of entries a unit shows is not fixed. Ursula showed six. Anatolia showed four with gauntlets equipped, two without them, and one at a lower level, so weapon type and level both appear to feed the display. Crest entries take slots in the same list, and so do buffs handed over by a nearby ally. Three further icons in these forecasts were read as weapon-mastery skills, but the account that transcribed them marked all three uncertain, so they are not recorded here.

What Has Not Been Published

Twenty-two of the twenty-four named skills have nothing attached but a name. Nothing has been published about activation rates, about how a skill is learned, or about whether skills carry between classes the way weapon proficiency does. There is no published cap on how many a unit can equip, and no key for the icons the forecast uses. The one structural hint is Rein's tie to a weapon rank, and a single instance is not a system.

Related Pages

For how a forecast is assembled and what else feeds into it, see Combat System. Attacks paid for in weapon durability are covered on Combat Arts, the marks that share slots in the same list on Crests, and the classes that carry skills of their own on Classes.