Allies and rescues

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The 24 entries below include recruitment events covering multiple people. They do not represent the number of all named generic soldiers or the total of unique units.

Canopus

All routes / Chapter 1 Tynemouth

1. Win with him alive while he fights as a guest.
2. Use flight to deliver healing to rescue targets. A bow lets him provide support using height.

Presance / Felicia

All routes / Chapter 1 Krysaro

1. Presance joins if alive; Felicia joins if he dies. The 2 do not join together.
2. Presance carries Exorcism. Check his maximum MP and spellbooks before undead battles.

Sara and Voltare

All routes / Chapter 1 Krysaro

1. Join after clearing the town battle.
2. Distribute equipment with Sara as an archer and Voltare as an early front-line unit.

Zapan

L / Chapter 2 Qadriga / Chapter 4 Golyat

1. Accept recruitment after rescuing him in Chapter 2. If you saved him but refused, meet him again after Brigantes in Chapter 4. Reduce his HP to 1–20 and accept his plea for mercy.
2. He carries Prox at the Chapter 4 reunion. Choosing his recruitment timing does not mean allowing him to die in Chapter 2.

Aloser

C / Chapter 2C Tynemouth

1. Win with the guest alive. She always leaves if you proceed to N.
2. Use elevated positions for archery. Attack from behind the front line rather than isolating her at the front.

Sisteena, Folcurt, and Byan

N/C / Chapter 1 Rime → Chapter 2C rescue

1. Save Sisteena at Rime. Rescue Byan at Qadriga, accept the request, and go to Damsa. Keep all 3 alive and request their company at Boed Fortress.
2. Sisteena is involved in Chapter 4's wind temple. Avoid her death or dismissal after recruitment and keep her until the ritual.

Mildain

All routes / Chapter 3 Almorica

1. Joins during the Almorica Castle event on each route.
2. Give him a sword and healing items for ground-based front-line duties.

Gildas

L/C / Chapter 3 Almorica

1. Joins on the L/C routes. Does not join alongside Mildain on N.
2. Do not confuse his appearance as an enemy on N with permanent recruitment.

Vice, Payton, Baylevra, and Apsala

L / Chapter 3 Almorica

1. Recruit them by clearing Almorica Castle on L.
2. Vice is a Warrior who can use 2 one-handed weapons. Organize the other 3 units' spellbooks and equipment too.

Junoun

L / Chapter 3 Brigantes

1. Accept him in the conversation after liberation. Deploy him inside Coritani Castle too if seeking Chapter 4's Dragon Tamer.
2. Do not defeat the leader before his conversation with Guacharo. Keep him healed until his turn arrives.

Haborym, L

L / Chapter 3 Rime

1. Win with the rescue target alive.
2. Support him with separate flying and ground-based healing units. After recruitment, he can use Swordmaster support magic.

Haborym, C

C / Chapter 3, 2nd Bahanna Highlands visit

1. Win with him alive in the highlands after Brigantes.
2. This is not the earlier battle at the same highlands. Keep a save immediately before entering the rescue battle.

Haborym, N

N / Chapter 3 Qadriga / Golyat

1. Save him at the fortress by visiting Krysaro after Boed Fortress and before Ashton. If you skip the fortress, another opportunity appears at Golyat after Damsa.
2. Festa, Tamuz, and Chamos must survive at the fortress. Accept Haborym's recruitment after the battle.

Orias and Debordes

N / Chapter 3 port of Ashton

1. Keep both Orias and Debordes alive.
2. Position units to heal the 2 separately. Prepare a flying item carrier too, balancing undead exorcism with rescue support.

Selye, C

C / Boed Fortress after Rime in Chapter 3

1. After Rime, visit before Phidoch and clear the battlefield.
2. She opens Chapter 4's fire temple. Her role extends beyond being a late-game front-line unit.

Selye on N, and Ehlrig

N / Chapter 3 Boed rescue → Chapter 4 Qadriga

1. Save Selye in Chapter 3. After Chapter 4's temple, open the pirate report at Krysaro and ask for cooperation in the fortress conversation.
2. Do not mix this with C's recruitment timing. Rescue her in Chapter 3, then connect that to Chapter 4's permanent recruitment event.

Olivia

All routes / Chapter 4 Brigantes

1. Proceed through the castle event to recruit her.
2. She is also required to welcome Sherry. Keep her alive and in the party until before Barnicia.

Sherry

All routes / Chapter 4 temple → Balmamusa

1. Reduce Sherry to HP 1–20 at the temple and let her escape. After the princess's whereabouts event and before clearing Barnicia, visit town in heavy rain with Olivia.
2. Do not reduce Sherry's HP to 0. Use weak stone throws to adjust the final amount, and enter town after confirming heavy rain.

Kachua

All routes / Chapter 4 Barnicia

1. Use the matching temple answer and castle conversation. If she appears as an enemy, finish the battle with her alive.
2. See the route guide for example answers on the path where you refuse to fight your sister. Do not mix answers from other paths or PSP/Reborn.

Rendol

All routes / Chapter 4 Grimsby

1. Return to Phidoch after Barnicia and read the sunken-ship report. Win the battlefield with him alive.
2. Having recruited him once is also a requirement for generic men to become Gunners. Check gun quantities and lines of fire.

Ganpp, Berda Jr., and Obda Jr.

All routes / Chapter 4 Nimrahava Forest

1. Complete Rendol's rescue and the forest report. Keep the 2 griffins alive and reduce Ganpp's HP to 1–20.
2. Avoid hitting the 2 griffins with area attacks. Near the end, reduce only Ganpp's HP with single-target attacks.

Deneb

All routes / Chapter 4 Deneb's shop

1. Read the witch's shop report and buy a total of 255 items there. Select the shop's recruitment option.
2. The shop stops appearing after she joins. Buy needed orbs and other items first, and distinguish this from conditions for an additional-equipment version.

Radlum

All routes / Early rescue in the Palace of the Dead

1. Win with guest Radlum alive.
2. Protect him from attacks rather than simply targeting the enemy leader before rescuing him. He joins as a Warlock able to use Dragon Magic.

Oxyones

L / Chapter 4 Belmoruse

1. Requires Junoun's Chapter 3 recruitment and Coritani conversation. Deploy him in the plateau's random battle, trigger the conversation, and reduce Oxyones's HP to 1–20.
2. Missing Chapter 3 prerequisites cannot be made up on this battlefield. Check the number of dragons you intend to use and the L-size deployment limit.

Recruit generic soldiers through Denim's persuasion

1. Select Persuade from Denim's actions. Safely reduce enemy HP and approach instead of repeatedly trying from far away.
2. Do not expect to recruit enemy leaders or unique event characters in the same way as generic soldiers.
3. Successfully persuaded units act as guests during battle. Protect a new ally with healing if they advance too far toward enemies, then check formation and equipment after the battle.