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Ah yes, the timeless ultimate moral debate: what's more worth saving? A human life, or a good ol' pair of Timbs?

Fun fact about Farina: her name means 'flour' in Italian, so she's all about getting that bread.

You know how in some families, it's really obvious which kid was named by the dad? "Florina" is Latin for flower (floris) "Fiora" is Italian for flower (fiore) "Farina" is Latin for _flour_ (farina)

“Units that cost gold to recruit” also known as the smart ones

The Hugh stat changes blows my mind on how clever the Devs are, making such a small easter egg only diehard fans (ghast) will find

iirc, the 10,000 gold you pay Beowulf with just ends up in his inventory. So you don't actually lose any gold, it just shifts to a different unit.

*Shura on his knees begging for his life* Xander: What should we do with this man, Corrin? Corrin: Hmmm.... let’s kill him. Leon: Man, that’s pretty ruthless. Azura: How could you? Elise: WHY?!?! Corrin: I want his shoes. They look comfy.

Fates' Anna is the first beowulf archetype that cost real life money, followed by echoes DLC

Shura: I will fight for you! Corrin: Them shoes be looking fly my dood. Shura: My boots? Did... Did you want em? Corrin: Yeah yeah. Hey lets kill him and take his boots. Shura: You can have me and the boots! Corrin: Already made my peace. Make yours. *kills Shura*

I never remember Shura's name, I just call him Boots. And this is coming from someone who married him...

"The path I walk is cold...maybe these boots will help?"

The Echoes and 3 Houses DLC are truly the most expensive. Diving into your 4th Wall Wallet for them.

Number One: pretty much every single unit in FEH Edit: I went off the thumbnail of this video to make this comment, so I didn’t see the ‘that gold can buy’ in the title. Oof.

I like how none of these characters are even in the Mercenary classline

Not only is RD Volke cheap to recruit, he has a base convo with Ike before you enter the tower where he gives you 20k gold. So really, he costs negative 17k as long as you have 3k up front and don’t kill him

YOU KNOW i traded Shuras life for those fresh pair of foams.... Can't win a war without my nikes

Fun fact about Volke! He'll still charge 50 Gold per chest in Radiant Dawn. There is _one_ chest you can have him open. If you attempt to open it with less than 50 gold, the message the game gives you is a placeholder, something to the effect of "IID_NOGOLD".

Saber costs a million buck gold dagger you can take right back from him!

Waiting for the army management FE. Where you are the leader of a mercenary group and actually have to balance equipment, gold, units, and take jobs that pay.

Small brain: Killing Shura and using his boots Normal brain: Recruiting and using Shura as is Galaxy brain: Making Shura your Ballistician on Conquest

I honestly want a mod/remake of FE6 where Hugh would leave if you refuse all of this offers, then return to a later map, where he could only be recruited by Niime, who would literally pull his ear to the other team.

The Shura=boots meme is one of my favorites on the FE community. But ironically I never killed Shura in any of my Conquest runs, the guy is just too likable to bring myself to change him for a stat booster.

10:19- So about this story gold, it actually leads into something that I find kind of interesting and blows the cost of hiring any of these "Beowulfs" out of the water. [Warning- Minor Spoilers for Path of Radiance.] For those wondering about the story gold that comes on this map, it was supposed to be Daein's payment for receiving the aid of Naesala and some of his Raven Soldiers. However, that 50,0000 gold is not all of the money that they were promised. After clearing that chapter, you get 70,000 actual gold for you to use. What this means is that Daein paid 120,000 gold for their services. While Daein never paid this gold since they were only supposed to be paid after and how Reyson persuades Naesala and his men to withdraw, I always found it amusing that the enemy in this situation were willing to pay more money than what most FEs will give you for just a single fight for one mercenary group and failed horribly. Granted the price does make sense since at most, Daein is paying roughly on average 7,500 gold per Raven if you count all the Ravens (16, Naesala included) that could show up on PoR Hard Mode, but that rate might be even lower for the common Ravens given how high Naesala charges for himself. Speaking of which, you also have to wonder how much Naesala himself was charging for him to take part in the battle since in an earlier chapter he toyed at the idea of himself costing triple the rates of what most Ravens charge for their services and how much the cost of hiring Naesala made up that 120,000 gold.

Shura somehow managed to become one of my favorite units in Fates, I could never even imagine to kill him for boots lmao

I still can't get over the fact that Corrin deadass takes the guy he just executed's boots off of his corpse. Probably the most ratchet thing Corrin does in all of Conquest (and that's saying something). Also I don't think I could make such a decision regarding Nyx if we were given the same option in Rev...though given that I was the guy that spent half a day training her up to the same level as the rest of my team in Rev, I guess that would go without saying.

I just wish Shura had more supports

I really wished that in Crimson Flower (Fe3h) If you didn't recruit Shamir, you could hire her in chapter 14 (Defence of Garreg Mach) for 25 000 gold since its quite clear that she would leave the army she is in for those numbers

Hugh's grandma still has headaches on her back

I actually have a funny story about Shura. When I played Conquest and was presented with the choice to kill him, I felt too bad to go through with it, but was terrified that sparing him would lead to him betraying me later on. Because of this, I decided to have my avatar S-Support him so he have too deep of an emotional bond to double-cross me. Of course, this fear ended up being unfounded, by I was still somewhat new to the series and it seemed like a legitimate concern to me at the time.

I honestly didn't know there was a benefit to killing Shura

Units that cost gold to recruit. So 90% of the Berwick Saga roster?

Dang. I'm probably too soft to kill a recruitable character, but if there ever was an incentive, it would be boots.

The 50,000 story gold that Volke gets paid actually comes from the money Daein was going to pay Naesala. I always found that to be pretty cool

The characters from the Fire Emblem Echoes Season Pass.

Hugh is such an interesting character, and a weird unit. I love him to death as a unit and he's an amazing character... But he's not really worth his asking price unless you're doing the Magic cap glitch

I used Hugh in two of my normal mode playthroughs, and he was equally as good as Lugh and Lilina. All three of them are solid units. Although maybe I just got lucky in those two playthroughs cause I'm surprised to hear that his growths aren't great.

Missed opportunity to talk about the Hugh money glitch :c

I've always gotten Rennac in Sacred Stones, (using La'Rachel) but by that time I've groomed Colm for the rouge class. So I get him but immediately Bench him.

The hugh glitch is one of my favorite parts of fe6

Should've mentioned Overflow Hugh, the glitch where if you recruit Hugh for the lowest price, suspend the game, then immediately promote him to Sage he gets capped Mag and Skill lol

5:36 He's in Grado castle, not Renais castle.

I honestly didn't know Rennac was a "Beowulf" I always just talked to him with L' Rachel since I knew he was with her and Dozla before, so she would obviously be the one to recruit him (Also with her it would be a bit easier to catch up to him with her 6 move versus the Ephraim/Eirika and their 5 move).

I feel like killing Shura is a sin.

This is great - I have fond memories of grinding to make sure I had enough gold for Farina, just because I wanted to utilize the triangle attack for the first time!

I reclassed Shura into a berserker and he was a mad lad. High speed and skill, with enough hp to withstand a couple hits. I was really happy with him :)

When Shura gets added to FEH I hope he comes with Odd or Even Tempest (a skill that increases movement on odd/even turns).... so I can kill him for boots!

Also the generics in the DS shadow dragon that require a certain death count of your own units

Keep up the great work Ghast. I always spend the money on these units, and the highest amount on Hugh, even if I'm not planning on using him. I'm a sucker.

Japanese slang nickname for Shura is ブーツさん (Būtsu-san...i.e. boots or mr. boots). I guess like English fans Japanese fans can also reduce characters to their lowest common denominator. For FE7 if you talk about the funds rank than promoting Dart can be similar to recruiting Farina (bit off-topic as it was not a recruitment cost). Maybe I always approached funds rank wrong as it felt like you both had to be ultra-frugal and keep track of things externally though I recall in modes with silver card it was somewhat easier (as you can turn gold into elixir to double it's value).

Thing about Shura, he doesn't begin as an Outlaw, he's an Adventurer when you recruit him. But anyways, great video man.

Don't forget Xavier from Thracia. The cost: your sanity.

Perfect timing. I’m in the process of doing Hector hard mode for the first time (with save states because holy shit is that mode tough) and am just about to recruit farina.

I didn't even realize Rennac charged a fee.

Trick question, it’s all of the characters from Three houses, as it is the most expensive at retail price!

Aye only 4 minutes old awesome love your content man

Awesome Video! The only question left of my mind is: what is the most expensive unit possible? Not just full characters but even Including buyable extra units like the Avatar log in Awakening or in fates. Where are the limits how expensive can you go?

Where are you Rennac Gang???

Is everyone forgetting about Gaius? He was recruited over some sweets... 😅

Ah, this was interesting! I’ve played several of these, but I still learned a lot here. As for me, I could never take the boots for Shura’s life, regardless of whether I intend to touch him at all. Say what you will, I really like to immerse and let my morals play a part in such decisions!

Such characters do round things out in a world. The lack of such in Awakening might be a nod to perhaps the different atmosphere of the area (now and back in Marth's days).

Two fun stories about the characters in this video. When I first played radiant dawn, at the chapter when you recruit volke, spent all my gold on forges. I thought “it’s the second last chapter anyway, may as well.” I remember talking to him, exited to get one of my favourite characters from path of radiance back. Only for him to call me poor and just fucking dip. In my first play though of conquest, I was under the impression that my choice to kill shura meant nothing (as does literally every other choice in fates lol). So I killed him thinking Elise would stop me or something. Boots were 100% worth tho.

Seeing these comments, now I want a video on dlc recruitable units.

In another case of "Kaga did it first", the mercenaries you do hire in Berwick Saga (i.e. most of your army) DO cost money every chapter, and the higher level they are, the more they cost. I mean, eventually they become free after you finish their personal sidequest, but those come only after MANY maps you play with them and you won't get most of them permanently recruited until 3/4 through the game. Really incentives you to go after those bullions and treasure chests in that game.

I totally forgot about Conquest ch16’s gold mechanic, that’s so clever and I wish I had time to play Conquest again. I think I’ve always kept Shura even without using him, because I just don’t want to kill characters

Given that I'm a filthy casual that only started at Awakening, Shura is the only character on this list that I know.

I wonder what you think of other rpg series such as Tactic Ogre? I find that its characters are very compelling too, just like the ones on fire emblem.

At least the FE6 Illian and Lycian Mercenaries are explained by being paid off already by Hector and Eliwood.

Here's a fun fact about Rennac, having a price that ends with 8 is basically the Asian equivalent of having prices that end with 9 in North America or Europe. He's basically saying "I'm not $100, I'm only $99.99."

The thing is, Beowolf's wage is still on the player's side because of how fe4 works, while the others just eat what you pay them or something.

Shura had those Jordans to die for

I picked Shura even though it would be really funny if Corrin murdered someone for footwear in the story

That thumbnail is genius.

Shura is a cool character, and he has a pretty good staff rank in a game where proficiency rank takes forever to upgrade.

I love Volke. Every time Lethality activated in RD it was the coolest thing.

I didn't even know about paying for Rennac since the only time I've recruited him I did it with L'Arachel since I figured she was the only one that could.

Deen and Sonya are interesting cases as well in Shadows of Valentina... While they may not cost gold, Getting either one is in exchange of the life of the other.

Loved the video, but I believe Rennac is in the Grado Keep in Ephraim's route, not Castle Renais. We're all human.

So interesting thing about Volk in Radiant Dawn: He still takes 50 gold per chest or door you unlock with him, but by that point there is only one chest in the game. So what happens if you don't have 50 gold? You can't open the chest. but what's more is that if you then check the info box, the text will be "dummy", meaning that this is such a remote situation that the play testers never found it. (Source: BigKlingy) Edit: Realized after writing that this was already in the video, whoops.

Almost forgot about Rennac because I think he was the only one who died in my playthrough when doing that post game area place (or something of the sort.

I didn't even know you could pay Rennac. I always just took him up with L'Arachel lol.

TIME FOR MY MAN HUGH TO SHINE

It's been like months after the unification of Valentia. I still wanna know where my gold is

Man I haven't played Fates and I have no idea what I'm going to do when I have to make the choice with Shura. I always make a point to recruit and protect all possible characters yet I also make sure to collect every stat-boosting item. What an impasse.

I don’t think I’d be able to play Fire Emblem because I would get too attached to everyone and try to collect all of the characters Then cry when they die

Beowulf is probably the cheapest of them

Is there a link to all of the awesome character art from this video?

Shura had one major flaw going against him. Lack of supports. He honestly should have atleast had support options with the other ninjas. Even though they were from different clans, i'm sure there was SOMETHING to draw conversation about between them. Also in revelations he is ironically kind of busted due to joining absurdly over leveled.

Where did you get the art? It is beautiful!

Funnily enough both hugh and shura are of my favorite characters in their respective games so my answer to them is obvious, I guess I have a thing before Beowulf's or they just hit the charm, honestly I love the takes and spins of the archetype the series get, specially the mechanics around hugh and shura being very interesting

Grado Keep is where you recruit Rennac on Ephirams route

Shura be looking like Nameless from King of Fighters.

I'm a little disappointed you didn't mention the Hugh glitch. I wasn't too keen on him either but then he randomly capped his magic and skill in one level up. I had a ton of fun with that and it doesn't hurt that he's one of FE6's most entertaining characters.

“I feel we ought to spare Shura.” “Eyyo but he got them Jordans tho.”

I didn’t even know Rannuc could be paid, I just went directly to him with L’arachel and recruited him

i love fe 10 and i think, you get before the final from volker some cash back (after looking, it was 30k gold) so in my oponion, he is the cheapest from all, cause you get extra money for recruiting him. (cheaper then the "free units")

I always recruited Shura in Conquest. He is a really underrated character.

I fucking love Shura, he ended up becoming one of my MVPs in both Conquest AND Revelation (since they actually start him at a good level with good bases in Rev), and he's just such a great support bro, I could never trade him in for a pair of boots lmao.

Can’t forget Hughs magic stat can roll over and instantly cap out if you refuse his initial price and he rolls a few specific stats (I don’t remember which) and then he will immediately have capped magic.

Love Volke & Farina on this list, just wish they were both more available in their respective games