Bonds · Anna's Notebook｜Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Guide

Choose a method for before or after recruitment

Before recruitment, seat the target with the relevant protagonist at a meal. After recruitment, raise the party's bonds together through world-map feasts.

Assuming the same gain each time, measured increases give the following estimates for level 1→2.

Estimated uses to reach level 2 from level 1

4–5 giftsHerbal Recipe Guide, Ultand–Leda

6–8 giftsGarum, Ultand–Leda

2–3 visitsPale Raven conversations, Cai–Eshmel, all three answers correct

Tested quantities and gains at each level.

For recruitment on this route, seat the target with this route's protagonist. Three companions dining without a protagonist also gain bonds in all three pairs. See food preferences, seats, and gains for each pair.

Choose a method for before or after recruitment

Bond Levels cap at 5 and remain globally: bonds gained on any route survive protagonist changes and chapter restarts. You can build bonds for future recruits on other routes in any story.

For speed, use meals rather than gifts. You can dine several times weekly, raise bonds among 3 people at once, improve bonds between non-protagonists, and invite unrecruitable characters. Gifts are limited to 1 per person per week.

Fast pre-recruitment loop: ideally give first gifts in the previous chapter → eat all available inn menus at the chapter start → use Automated Activities with everyone exploring to reach Sunday → eat again → continue next week → restart the chapter when too few turns remain to reach another Sunday.

There are two menus early on and three only after raising Renown. Do not assume three meals every week from the start. Bonds remain, while gold, experience, items, and chapter progress reset to the opening. Having everyone explore reduces extra scenes. Meals and week-skipping are in the same place, reducing travel.

Include the relevant protagonist or lord when dining with a recruitment target. Without them, bonds grow among other characters and do not meet this recruitment pair's requirement. Check the protagonist's support list and reach the threshold early, then recruit when Renown is ready.

After recruitment, build group bonds with world-map feasts. Expend a spell use in battle, then use only ingredients that do not restore spell uses at a feast spot. Keeping spells below full lets you feast again. Restart before ingredients or turns run out; bonds remain. This method is for recruited teams and cannot raise bonds with unrecruited characters.

Companion interaction: share meals at a base to strengthen bonds; the image shows companions around a table, with a character saying “I want to keep enjoying this delicious food”

Inn meal selection screen: both weekly dishes on the left cost 300; the three companions on the right express different preferences. The source site added the pink boxes. (Japanese interface)

Build Renown and bonds separately. Mikaela and Fianna have examples of sufficient Renown but insufficient bonds to recruit them. Weekly gifts alone are too slow. Concentrate on meals at the chapter start, then restart before progressing normally. A demonstration compares gold and bonds before and after restarting, then reaches the target level with one more meal.

Bonds affect recruitment and combat

Use	Details
Recruitment requirements	Many characters require a certain Bond Level with the protagonist before joining; see the recruitment section for specifics
Combat bonuses	Adjacent support partners provide bonuses such as Hit/Avoid; higher bonds give more Linked Attacks in Clashes
Bond Advent	Higher bonds with the Promised One, Eshmel, make assistance such as “White Light Wings” more likely before a lethal blow
Support conversations	Watch at the inn: C requires Bond Level 2, B requires 3, A requires 4
Paired endings	With Eshmel: Bond Level 5 + A conversation viewed + Part III cleared. Other confirmed pairs: A viewed and mutually highest bond points

Successful recruitment formally adds a companion; after rejection, improve the relationship before negotiating again.

Recruitment checks bonds with the current protagonist

Recruitment checks only the numeric Bond Level between the target and your currently selected protagonist. Include that protagonist among the three dining guests. Cai reaching level 3 with someone does not mean Leda also has level 3 with them. Relationships carry over by character pair. To prepare for the next route, seat its protagonist with the target. Pairs without support conversations can still build numeric bonds. Recruitment checks the level; conversations have a separate availability list.

Bringing new Part 3 bonds back to an earlier protagonist's story requires restarting it from Chapter 1. Other old chapters do not synchronize immediately. Renown, gold, and character levels do not accompany bonds into another Part 1 route.

Check gift quantities for each character and level

Gift quantities have been tested through level 2, while White Crow records cover levels 1–4. See attempt ranges by character, item, and rating.

Bond gains from each activity

See gains per gift, meal, White Crow visit, theater viewing, and performance, and adjacent combat, assistance, Linked Attacks, and feasts.

Bond activities before and after recruitment

Before recruitment, use first gifts, inn meals, and theater viewing. Afterward, you can also train, perform Temple Service, bathe, and fight together. Use world-map feasts for group development. Weekly limits are in the numbers table.

Repeat chapter-start meals week by week

From first gifts to restarting the chapter

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Ideally in the preceding chapter
, give each target one cheap gift. Saraminian Sweets cost 100G with no purchase limit in Megaira; the gift vendor at the lower-town tavern is also cheap. One gift unlocks meal invitations, so do not chase the best reaction. Doing this early avoids repeating first-gift trips after each restart. Sources:
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Learn the “Gift Discount” boon at White Crow's Roost
, part of Boons of Salvation. Its first tier gives a 10% discount and is worth prioritizing. Sources:
3
Choose a chapter with many turns and no long opening scene. Options have 80–100+ turns, with another demonstration using 120. Examples include Leda's Chapter 7, “Rose of Retribution,” and Chapter 9. Sources:
4
At the opening
inn → meal → choose 3 characters, including one protagonist → aim for a dish at least two like → eat every menu unlocked that week, 2 early on and 3 later.
5
Use automatic activities at the same inn, with everyone exploring to reduce extra scenes. First align with Sunday, then skip 28 turns per full week to subsequent Sundays. Sunday is ideal at half price: 150G per meal rather than 300G. Repeat 4–5 until insufficient time remains for another Sunday. Sources:
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When you cannot reach another Sunday, open System → Restart Chapter before the main battle. Return to the inn and eat again. Gold is restored and bonds remain. Experience, items, and this chapter's exploration/request progress also reset, so keep anything you want to retain out of this loop.

A convenient weekly rhythm

Build around the weekend: accept timed requests at the chapter start, then use automatic activities to skip to Saturday at 6 a.m., earning money. On Saturday, train four times at the arena, at the weekend half price of 150G each, give everyone gifts, and use the temple/theater/baths. Then skip automatically to Sunday at 6 a.m., repeat Sunday's activities, and eat all unlocked half-price menus before exploring outside town. More units make this routine more profitable. Each town fast-travel trip costs 30 minutes, with 6 hours per turn, so excessive jumping quietly consumes turns. Sources:

Disagreements and unverified details

Meal prices: 150G at half price on Sunday, 300G on ordinary days. Claims of half-price Saturday meals conflict with other records, so do not budget for Saturday discounts. Sources:
Recruitment also requires the target's bond with your current protagonist. See recruitment requirements for thresholds.

Build recruited-party bonds with field feasts

Keep the two methods separate. Inn meals can invite unrecruited characters, making them useful for recruitment thresholds. World-map feasts raise bonds across your recruited party and help unlock conversations after expanding or combining teams.

Expend at least one spell use at the chapter start, then repeatedly feast with ingredients that do not restore spell uses. Restart when ingredients or turns are nearly exhausted. Do not add spell-restoring ingredients and remove the condition sustaining the loop. Check the item table and in-game descriptions for ingredient effects.

World map Feast results: several party members have separate HP and Motivation bars, with a notice above that everyone's bond increased. The source site added the pink boxes. (Japanese interface) — World map Feast results table: Multiple members are listed separately with HP and Motivation bars, with a notice above that everyone's bond increased. The source site added the pink boxes. (Japanese interface)

Part III practical detail: gather multiple teams before eating. One record brings five teams of 8 onto one space, repeatedly feasts with HP-only ingredients, and includes the protagonist to raise bonds too. The same prerequisites apply: expend a spell use first and never restore spells to full. Hold Y to handle frequent Bond Level notifications.

Restarts keep bonds, but chapter facility gains must be considered separately. Build meal relationships and restart; Divine Service contributions roll back with the chapter, so save training and mount development for the run you will continue. Bringing Part 3 bonds back to old protagonist routes also requires restarting from Chapter 1. See New Game Plus carryover.

Support coverage differs between characters

Not everyone has many supports. Outside Eshmel, Kiroc has only 1 C-rank conversation, and Io has only 2, capping at B. Goliath has more supports than Fabio.Sources:

There are 243 support pairs overall, including 48 A-rank conversations with Eshmel. See the full support list.
Characters without an A conversation with Eshmel, and therefore without a paired ending with him: Anatolia, Aswan, Bertrand, Centurio, Creek, Kiroc, Klapka, Nathan, Nuzzuo, Orchel, Seteth, Tahonia, Talimun, Troy. Sources: