Whisper

Whisper Sothe as a Whisper in Radiant Dawn. Moving with stealth and secrecy, Whispers destroy their foes with the deadly skill, Bane.

Unit type(s) Infantry Weapon(s) Knife Skill(s) Steal, Shove, Bane

The Whisper (Japanese: 密偵エスピオン Espion) is a third-tier advanced infantry class which is exclusive to Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It is the promoted form of the Rogue class, and is accordingly the hypothetical final form of the non-playable Thief class. Like their predecessors, Whispers continue to exclusively wield knives and to have the unique ability to unlock doors and chests without without relying on the limited durability of keys.

Whispers continue the same style of gameplay of their preceding classes, with their time much better spent avoiding combat in favor of performing unlocking duties. Their skill and speed stats are both extremely high, with their speed and the low weight of their knives also giving them a very high avoid rate, and their immense speed also allows them to make good use of their Steal skill on enemies' items. However, their poor strength and defensive stats leave them very unsuited to combat, even with their high avoid, so their offensive ability goes no further than being able to fend off enemy attacks if they absolutely have to.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	47/46	18	4	18/19	21/20	0	15	6/7	7	10/7	A

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	50	28	20	38	40	35	26/25	25/26	??	??	SS

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	70/65%	35/45%	15/30%	60/55%	55/70%	40%	35/15%	20/25%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Radiant Dawn	Steal	Innate.
Radiant Dawn	Shove	Innate.
Radiant Dawn	Bane	Innate (mastery skill).

Class change

Radiant Dawn

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Rogue	Automatically at end of Part 4 Prologue (Sothe) / Using a Master Crown after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21. (Heather)	Whisper

Trivia

• The Japanese and NTSC-U help description erroneously states that the Whisper's Bane skill incapacitates an enemy. The Bane skill does reduce an enemy to 1 HP with a single strike, but it does not technically incapacitate them.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Whisper	Quietly pronounced speech, here used as a metaphor for how stealthily and quietly members of this class are meant to operate on the battlefield.
Spanish	Espía	Spy
French	Espion	Spy
German	Windsänger	Wind-singer
Italian	Spia	Spy

Gallery

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  Sothe as a Whisper in Radiant Dawn.

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  Heather as a Whisper in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Assassin

This article is part of Project Classes, a project focused in writing articles for every class present in the Fire Emblem series.