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"Those of royal blood from kingdoms large and small. Their orders raise morale to turn the tide."

—Prince/ss description, Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City

The Sovereign (プリンス / プリンセス Prince/ss in the Japanese version and Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City) are armor-clad supporters who use their powerful voices to lead their comrades to victory time and time again. With their bolstering voices, they raise the party's morale as well as their stats, making each battle easier as the Sovereign's noble presence makes it's appearance. With their heavy armor, they're a force to be reckoned with, being virtually unstoppable as their orders heal the wounded and wear out the enemy. Thanks to their vitality, they make ideal units for either line, though lacking in any means of inflicting direct damage.

Profile

Description	With their powerful voices, the Prince/ss is a hardy class that can dish out a variety of beneficial orders that allow their allies to utilize their capabilities at the maximum. Thanks to their access to shields and heavy armor, they make for hard targets to kill when added onto their vast number of support capabilities. Between buffs, odd healing, and weapon enchantments, the Prince/ss functions like the Troubadours from the previous games. With their general knowledge of melee, they can use a variety of weapons, though they lack any particular skill with any. Through their noble blood, the Prince/ss can restore their own TP, as well as the TP of others, simply through the protection of their allies.
Strengths	Powerful bolstering and healing capabilities, coupled with high defenses. Capable of healing their own TP to a degree.
Weaknesses	No source of direct damage and no real skill with any weapon. Their low TP pools can make things difficult, and they rarely have a chance to go a turn without applying a new order.

Description	During the transition to The Fafnir Knight, the Sovereign loses a fair bit of durability they once had in exchange for greater TP reserves and Tec growth. Nevertheless, their function remains unchanged as they still have reasonable defenses for a support class. Several of the Troubadour's skills from Heroes of Lagaard have been passed over to the Sovereign, and the Sovereign's own weapon enchantment skills have been removed due to overlap with that class. This results in the Sovereign focusing on managing buffs and debuffs, with their strongest skills involving erasing buffs and/or debuffs for a beneficial effect.
Strengths	Powerful bolstering and healing capabilities, coupled with high defenses. Capable of healing their own TP to a degree. Flexibility of weapon usage and access to heavy armor lets them function on both front and back lines.
Weaknesses	No good attack skills without being rectified through grimoire stones. Link Order skills require other party members to trigger. Slightly low HP and Vitality reduces frontline durability.
Force Boost	Victory Vow: For 3 turns, Order skills affect the entire party instead of 1 line.
Force Break	Proof of Nobility (uses head): Restores HP and TP to the entire party.

Description	With their powerful voices, the Sovereign is a hardy class that can dish out a variety of beneficial orders that allow their allies to utilize their capabilities at the maximum. Thanks to their access to shields and heavy armor, they make for hard targets to kill when added onto their vast number of supportive capabilities. Though lacking in one powerful healing skill, their orders can heal an entire room of allies at once, making them an extremely useful member of any party. With their general knowledge of melee, they can use a variety of weapons, though they lack any particular skill with any. Through their noble blood, the Sovereign can restore their own TP, as well as the TP of others, simply through the protection of their allies.
Strengths	Powerful bolstering and healing capabilities, coupled with high defenses. Capable of healing their own TP to a degree.
Weaknesses	No source of direct damage and no real skill with any weapon.

Stat Progression

Does not include any stat bonuses from skills, equipment, Books, or Retirement.

Level	HP	TP	STR	TEC	VIT	AGI	LUC
1	44	18	7	6	7	6	6
35	214	127	23	28	35	27	30
70	389	239	39	51	64	48	56
99	498	308	49	65	82	61	71

Level	HP	TP	STR	TEC	VIT	AGI	LUC
1	32	34	7	9	6	7	6
30	119	172	19	24	16	18	16
70	301	387	40	49	34	37	33
99	477	522	56	68	48	52	46

Grimoire Stones

Skills to generate and pass:

Elemental Circles: Multiple party members using Circles in the same turn will result in tremendous elemental amplification.
Link Order II: Allows a Tec-based party member with no innate elemental attacks to deal good amounts of elemental damage while only consuming a single Grimoire slot.
White Noble, Clearance: Particularly important for the Juggernaut fight and any other boss that uses a debuff which the party lacks a skill to directly counter.

Skills best used on Sovereigns:

War Edge Skills (War Magus): Good Str and Tec allow for a Sovereign to do reasonable amounts of damage through War Edge attacks.
Salve/Salve II (Medic): Order healing might not be strong enough or cover enough area in some cases.
Elemental Palms (Alchemist): Frontline Sovereigns get a cost-efficient means of doing elemental damage.
Whip Skills (Dark Hunter): The Sovereign's decent stat spread lets them effectively use Dark Hunter skills.

Skills

Skill	Description	Type	Prerequisite
Royal Lineage	This royalty skill regains TP with each new enhancement received.	Class Passive	Available at Start
Royal Veil	All allies will recover HP if your HP is maxed at the turn's end.	Passive	Available at Start
Triumphant Cry	All allies will recover HP if you are alive at the end of the battle.	Passive	Royal Veil Lv.5
Monarch March	Recover HP with each step by singing gallant military songs.	Passive	Triumphant Cry Lv.5
Reinforce	After casting an enhancement spell on an ally, they will recover HP.	Passive	Guard Order Lv.1
Nobility Proof	Your TP will recover when an enhancement spell's effect ends.	Passive	Available at Start
Attack Order	One row of allies' attack power will be increased for three turns.	Enhancement Order	Available at Start
Guard Order	One row of allies' defense will be increased for three turns.	Enhancement Order	Available at Start
Fire Arms	Enchant one ally's weapon with fire for three turns.	Enhancement Order	Attack Order Lv.1
Freeze Arms	Enchant one ally's weapon with ice for three turns.	Enhancement Order	Attack Order Lv.1
Shock Arms	Enchant one ally's weapon with voltage for three turns.	Enhancement Order	Attack Order Lv.1
Regal Radiance	Dispels a weapon's enchantments to deal damage to all enemies.	Offensive Order	Attack Order Lv.3
Ad Nihilo	Dispel all enhancements on one enemy, deals non-elemental damage.	Offensive Order	Attack Order Lv.5 Guard Order Lv.5
Prevent Order	One row of allies will gain ailment protection for 3 turns.	Defensive Order	Guard Order Lv.3
Rally Order	One row of allies will gain increased max HP for three turns.	Enhancement Order	Guard Order Lv.5
Protect Order	For three turns, one row of allies will gain HP when a turn ends.	Healing Order	Rally Order Lv.5
Negotiation	Dispel all enhancement spells on one ally to recover their HP.	Healing Order	Nobility Proof Lv.1
Inspire	Dispel all stat decreases on one row and recover their TP.	Healing Order	Nobility Proof Lv.3
Knighthood	The specified ally will act first this turn.	Enhancement Order	Nobility Proof Lv.5

Skill	Description	Type	Prerequisite	Uses
Order Mastery	Enables Order skills and heals party members affected by Orders.	Mastery	Available at Start
Attack Order	Raises phys/elem ATK of 1 ally line for 3 turns.	Order	Order Mastery Lv1	Head
Guard Order	Raises phys/elem DEF of 1 ally line for 3 turns.	Order	Order Mastery Lv1	Head
Dauntless Order	May prevent mortal damage and restore HP to 1 ally line for 3 turns.	Order	Attack Order Lv3 Guard Order Lv3	Head
Holy Crown	Raises effects of healing skills of 1 ally for 3 turns.	Order	Order Mastery Lv3	Head
Protect Order	Restores HP for 1 ally line at end of turn for 3 turns.	Order	Holy Crown Lv3	Head
Ad Nihilo	Cancels all buffs & debuffs on 1 enemy: Deals almighty damage.	Attack	Order Mastery Lv5	Head, TEC
Negotiation	Cancel topmost buff & debuff each on 1 ally to restore target's HP and Force.	Healing	Order Mastery Lv5	Head, TEC/VIT
White Noble	Cancel topmost buff & debuff each on party to restore their HP and Force.	Healing Order	Negotiation Lv3	Head, TEC/VIT
Clearance	Cancel topmost buff & debuff each on party/enemies to restore TP to user.	Healing	Ad Nihilo Lv2 White Noble Lv2	Head
Prevent Order	Negates ailments once for 1 ally line for 3 turns.	Order	Order Mastery Lv7
Morale Boost	Buffed allies gain more Force while user is alive.	Passive	Order Mastery Lv10
TP Up	Raises max TP.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
Link Order	If target takes elemental damage, attack target with same element.	Attack	TP Up Lv1	Head, TEC
Link Order II	If target takes elemental damage, attack all enemies with same element.	Attack	Link Order Lv5	Head, TEC
Fire Circle	Raises party's fire resistance and fire damage for the turn.	Support	TP Up Lv5	Head
Freeze Circle	Raises party's ice resistance and ice damage for the turn.
Shock Circle	Raises party's volt resistance and volt damage for the turn.
Cheer	Restores TP to allies in user's line if user has cancelled allies' buffs/debuffs the previous turn.	Healing	TP Up Lv10
HP Up	Raises max HP.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
Royal Veil	Restores HP to party at end of turn if user's HP is full.	Passive	HP Up Lv5
Triumphant Cry	Party recovers HP at end of battle.	Passive	HP Up Lv10
Monarch March	Party recovers HP after walking a set number of steps.	Passive	Royal Veil Lv3 Triumphant Cry Lv3
Curb DEF Up	Raises ailment/bind resistance.	Stat Increase	Available at Start
Take	Allows user to find more resources while taking.	Gather	Available at Start

Skill	Description	Type	Prerequisite
Proficiency	Recover some TP each time you receive a buff.	Passive	Available at Start
Nobility Proof	Restores some TP whenever one of the user's buffs ends.	Passive	Available at Start
Attack Order	Increase physical attack for all allies in the room for 5 turns.	Active / Head Skill	Available at Start
Guard Order	Increase physical defense for all allies in the room for 5 turns.	Active / Head Skill	Available at Start
Dendrology	May find extra materials when gathering at a chopping point.	Passive	Available at Start
Reinforce	Restore some HP to anyone whose status is affected, enemy or ally alike.	Passive	Guard Order Lv.3
Expertise	Recover some TP each time you recieve a buff.	Passive	Level 10, Proficiency Lv.1
Negotiation	Dispel buffs on a selected ally to restore some of their HP.	Active / Head Skill	Level 10, Nobility Proof Lv.3
Fire Arms	Increase an ally's resistance to fire for 5 turns, and imbue their normal attacks with fire.	Active / Head Skill	Level 10, Attack Order Lv.3
Freeze Arms	Increase an ally's resistance to ice for 5 turns, and imbue their normal attacks with ice.	Active / Head Skill	Level 10, Attack Order Lv.3
Shock Arms	Increase an ally's resistance to volt for 5 turns, and imbue their normal attack with volt.	Active / Head Skill	Level 10, Attack Order Lv.3
Protect Order	Grant Regen status to allies in the room for 5 turns, which recovers HP at the end of each turn.	Active / Head Skill	Level 10, Reinforce Lv.3
Monarch March	Increase natural HP recovery rate for all allies in the room.	Passive	Level 10
Prevent Order	For 5 turns, nullify the next status effect that allies in the room would recieve.	Active / Head Skill	Level 10, Protect Order Lv.3
Enlightenment	Recover some TP each time you recieve a buff.	Passive	Level 20, Expertise Lv.1
Inspire	Dispel buffs on a selected ally to restore some of their TP.	Active / Head Skill	Level 20, Negotiation Lv.3
Regal Radiance	Dispel an ally's elemental attack and attack all enemies in the room with the dispelled element.	Active / Head Skill	Level 20, Fire Arms Lv.3, Freeze Arms Lv.3, Shock Arms Lv.3
Ad Nihilo	Dispel all buffs from the enemy in front of you, dealing untyped damage to it.	Active / Head Skill	Level 20
Encourage	When an ally within 1 space from the user is incapacitated, this has a chance of reviving them with 1 HP.	Passive	Level 20, Prevent Order Lv.3
Royal Decree	Raises Blast Gauge recovery rate for all allies in the room for 5 turns.	Active / Head Skill	Level 20, Monarch March Lv.3

Subclassing

As Main Class:

Ninja: Bunshin allows the Prince to buff two rows at once, making tasks like constant Prevent Order much easier. It also gives the Prince better survivability and tanking capability with Otori, Senpuku and Kumogakure, but with vitality that the Ninja does not have, serving as a safety net. Prince's reasonably high luck also capitalizes on their ailment inducing skills.
Farmer: Again, the Prince's luck can capitalize on the Farmer's status ailments; however, unlike the Farmer his vitality doesn't render him an easy target. Braveheart coupled with Royal Veil can heal the rest of the party for a lot so long as they are kept safe, and Sympathy Pain is another good skill to use if they are prone to being afflicted with ailments.
Zodiac: Singularity can boost damage done by skills such as Regal Radiance, or enchantments from Elemental Arms. Their high TP and TP regen can mitigate a lot of the mainstream Zodiac's TP efficiency issues when using utility skills such as Elemental Prophecies- though building Meteor is, for obvious reasons, not recommended.
Hoplite: With Prince's high vitality in EOIII, he can serve the role of a Hoplite should you require one. Royal Lineage and/or Nobility Proof, when managed right, can sustain the Prince's TP to the point he will not run out by spamming shield skills.
Gladiator: By actually giving the Prince a weapon mastery, he can actually do really good damage on his own. Charge, Blade Rave, and Berserker's Vow are good skill options to pick up.
Buccaneer: Again, the Prince can be made a good damage dealer with either Rapier or Gun Mastery; and his luck couples well with the Buccaneer's Hanging, Light's Out and Lady Luck.

As Subclass:

Monk: It is often said that monks handle the Prince's Order skills better than he does; the reason being Form Qi adds to the amount of healing that Protect Order and Reinforce do. The main drawback is that the monk runs out of TP faster than he does.

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 == Subclassing ==
 '''As Main Class:'''
-* '''Ninja:''' Bunshin allows the Prince to buff two rows at once, making tasks like constant Prevent Order much easier. It also gives the Prince better survivability and tanking capability with Otori, Senpuku and Kumogakure. Prince's reasonably high luck also capitalizes on their ailment inducing skills.
+* '''Ninja:''' Bunshin allows the Prince to buff two rows at once, making tasks like constant Prevent Order much easier. It also gives the Prince better survivability and tanking capability with Otori, Senpuku and Kumogakure, but with vitality that the Ninja does not have, serving as a safety net. Prince's reasonably high luck also capitalizes on their ailment inducing skills.
 * '''Farmer: '''Again, the Prince's luck can capitalize on the Farmer's status ailments; however, unlike the Farmer his vitality doesn't render him an easy target. Braveheart coupled with Royal Veil can heal the rest of the party for a lot so long as they are kept safe, and Sympathy Pain is another good skill to use if they are prone to being afflicted with ailments.
 * '''Zodiac:''' Singularity can boost damage done by skills such as Regal Radiance, or enchantments from Elemental Arms. Their high TP and TP regen can mitigate a lot of the mainstream Zodiac's TP efficiency issues when using utility skills such as Elemental Prophecies- though building Meteor is, for obvious reasons, not recommended.