Editing Fire Emblem (section)

=== Laguz ===
Beastfolk from the Tellius games, divided into various tribes (wolf, lion, tiger, hawk, raven, dragon, etc.) and typically not promoting the same way as beorc (plain ol' humies).  They have the power to shift from [[monstergirl| 10-20% furry at most]] into gigantic animal forms that gain big stat boosts.  Unlike manaketes, they don't rely on a finite item, but on a meter that builds up slowly while they stand around, and faster if they get attacked, yet are helpless and cannot fight while untransformed in ''Path of Radiance'' and suck balls at it in ''Radiant Dawn''.   And while transformed, they lose meter every battle ''and'' every turn. Their defensive stats are generally such that they can take a few hits, and doing so means they can build meter, but they're not tough to the point that fighting untransformed is a good situation to be in.  Also, the meter worked somewhat differently for each laguz type/unit, with some outright starting battles transformed in ''Path of Radiance'' or just building meter really fast in ''Radiant Dawn''. 

There were various items and consumables available to decrease the inherent wonkiness of this mechanic, such as equipment that halved the stat gain but let the laguz remain transformed indefinitely (and cheesy strategies involving timing their use for juuuuust before they were about to transform back), and ''Radiant Dawn'' tried to tweak the mechanics so that both transforming and untransforming happened quicker, but it was never quite able to get up to the point that people were truly happy with it, and the class was removed following the Tellius titles.  Spiritual successors exist in the form of the taguel, wolfskin, and kitsune classes from the 3DS titles, all animal-themed shapeshifters, but they instead use "beaststones" to transform and fight and mechanically bear much greater similarity to the manakete class than their clear inspiration.

In ''Cipher'' they typically gain bonus attack and reach when sufficiently stacked, representing their transformation and tying with the Tellius faction mechanic of stacking and promoting to high power as a whole.