Once you’ve chosen your house, you’ll have access to characters from that house you chose. But that’s not all, you can also recruit students from other houses and other characters, with a few exceptions – you can’t recruit the house leaders. And some characters will only be recruited once you reach a certain point in the game and you’ve got a better support level.
If you want to recruit other students, I suggest to use your free time at the monastery to explore, chat with them, return their lost items to them and give them gifts. That way you will build better support level and you will have a better idea of who you want to recruit and what you need to do.
Three things are needed to recruit someone: specific skill level, specific stats and better support level between you and the one you want to recruit.
| Character | Requirements | House |
|---|---|---|
| Anette | MAG & FAITH | Blue Lions |
| Ashe | CHA & LANCE | Blue Lions |
| Bernadetta | STR & BOW | Black Eagles |
| Caspar | STR & BRAWL | Black Eagles |
| Dedue | STR & AXE | Blue Lions |
| Dorothea | CHA & AUTHORITY | Black Eagles |
| Felix | SPD & SWORD | Blue Lions |
| Ferdinand | DEX & HEAVY ARMOR | Black Eagles |
| Hilda | CHA & AXE | Golden Deer |
| Hubert | only Black Eagles* | Black Eagles |
| Ignatz | DEX & AUTHORITY | Golden Deer |
| Ingrid | DEX & FLYING | Blue Lions |
| Leonie | STR & LANCE | Golden Deer |
| Linhardt | MAG & REASON | Black Eagles |
| Lorenz | CHA & REASON | Golden Deer |
| Lysithea | MAG & FAITH | Golden Deer |
| Marianne | MAG & RIDING | Golden Deer |
| Mercedes | MAG & BOW | Blue Lions |
| Petra | DEX & RIDING | Black Eagles |
| Raphael | STR & HEAVY ARMOR | Golden Deer |
| Sylvain | CHA & REASON | Blue Lions |
There are other recruitable characters who you can recruit once you reach a certain point in the game, depending on the choices you make: Flayn, Shamir, Manuela, Hanneman, Seteth, Alois, Catherine, Cyril, Gilbert.
You can’t recruit: Rhea, Jeralt, Jeritza, Tomas
*It is possible that depending on the choices you make, Hubert can also be recruited later, like some other characters.
