Makalov

Makalov
Species	Beorc
Class	Sword Knight
Promotion	Paladin
Affiliation	Crimean Liberation Army
Hair color	Pink
Base	Begnion
Relatives	Marcia (sister)
Debut	Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Makalov is a playable unit in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and is the only playable Sword Knight in the game.

Background

Makalov was a compulsive gambler who bet any money he could get his hands on. But he often lost and so he often wound up indebted to various shady characters. This usually lead him to work for his debtors, sometimes in criminal activities, or to rely on his sister Marcia to bail him out of trouble. He later wound up on the run from his debtors, and he fell into the ranks of a group of bandits he was indebted to, who worked in the underground laguz slave ring.

In "Chapter 14: Training of Path of Radiance, the bandits engaged in battle with Ike and his mercenary group. There Makalov was reunited with Marcia, whom had fallen into the ranks of Ike's company. Marcia strong-armed him into switching sides and joining up with Ike's group. Afterwards, Makalov decided to find ways to skip working for Ike and, since he had a fixed income, he planned to spend it all at the casinos. But Ike saw through this plan and used the company's money to pay off all of Makalov's debts. In turn, this meant that Makalov was indebted to the mercenary company, and the money would be taken out of Makalov's wages to the point where he would be working for free for a while, and he was required to attend every battle he was called into.

Makalov made several attempts to steal money from his sister, but ultimately he remained in Ike's ranks for the remainder of the war. After the war ended, he decided to start over with a more responsible life in Begnion that involved less men threatening to break his knees.

Support Conversation Summaries

Makalov is capable of having Support conversations with three other characters.

• Astrid- In the first conversation, Astrid introduces herself to Makalov formally, leading him to say he's not actually a knight, and she gives him some wildflowers that he dropped. Makalov says he picked them to butter up Marcia (if Marcia is dead at that point in the story, he picks the flowers to place by her grave). Astrid considered him thoughtful, and he let her keep several of the flowers as thanks. In the next conversation, Makalov suggested that they were linked by fate but only because he wanted to borrow money from her. He found she had given all her money to a poor family she met, which caused Makalov to criticize her move. However, Astrid then gave Makalov an expensive pendant of hers. In the third conversation, Makalov returns the medallion to Astrid because his sister caught him trying to pawn it off and got angry at him (if Marcia had died, Ike instead got angry at Makalov and said he was insulting his sister's memory). Makalov then became shocked to learn that the pendent was a memento of Astrid's grandmother, and she said she had given it so freely to Makalov because her grandmother's memory would always be in her heart and so she felt less bad about giving the pendant to someone in need. Makalov expresses his humility and admits he was going to use the money for gambling, but Astrid instantly forgives him and calls him a fine gentlemen before she becomes embarrassed and leaves.
• Bastian-
• Haar-

Additionally, Makalov has a Support bonus with Marcia which increases his chances of delivering a critical hit when she is nearby, and vice-versa.