Cleric

治癒師 · Healer — The heart of the party who restores life

The healer specializes in healing companions' wounds and purifying status ailments — a support combat class. Though weak in direct combat, they're the absolute key to party survival, forming one pillar of MMORPG's 'tank-dealer-healer' trinity. The source of their power varies — divine magic, nature magic, herbalism, spiritual abilities, or advanced magitech. Classic fantasy depicts the iconic white-robed female priest with staff, with FF's White Mage, WoW's priests and druids, and D&D's Life Cleric being essential classes in every fantasy work. The moral weight of fighting against one's limits in the face of companions' deaths gives the character depth.

自然祭司 · Druid — An ancient priest who has become one with nature

The druid is an ancient priest class becoming one with nature and wielding its power. The historical archetype is the scholarly class responsible for religion, law, and education in Celtic societies (Gaul, Britain, Ireland) from the 1st century BCE, recorded in detail in Caesar's Gallic Wars. They held ceremonies in oak groves, taught disciples orally over 20 years, divined the future, and mediated tribal disputes. In fantasy they become a class with animal shapeshifting, nature magic, healing, and elemental summoning — D&D's Druid class, Warcraft's Druids, and Tolkien's Radagast are prominent examples. Strong association with hermits living in forests and wilderness away from cities and civilization.

聖職者 · Cleric — A battle priest who fights and heals through divine power

The cleric is a warrior-priest class fighting and healing with divine power. While regular priests focus on religious rites and spiritual guidance, clerics accompany adventuring parties, healing allies and turning undead with holy magic. Traditionally wearing heavy armor and wielding maces — derived from medieval Catholic canon law forbidding priests from using bladed weapons, leading to mace as workaround. D&D's Cleric class became the standard healer/divine archetype for all fantasy RPGs, with rich variants serving different gods — light, healing, war, nature — each wielding different domain magic.

巫師 · Shaman — A spirit communicator who traverses between the spirit world and reality

The shaman is a religious intermediary who travels between spirit and physical worlds, communicating with spirits, ancestors, and gods. The name derives from the Tungus 'šamán' of Siberia, but anthropologically the role exists universally across all continents in primitive religions — Siberian, Mongolian, Native American, African tribal, Korean mudang — varying in form but identical in essence. They enter trance states (possession) during rituals to receive spirits for prophecy and healing. In fantasy they become a class using totems, rituals, and spirit summoning — Warcraft's Shaman class and D&D's Shaman are prominent examples. Korean mudang are the same lineage as religious specialists for gut rituals, divination, and healing.

祭司長 · High Priest — The highest religious authority who bridges gods and humanity

The high priest (祭司長) is the supreme religious leader of a religion, overseeing all rites and theology of temples and churches. Not merely a priest but a comprehensive leader controlling the religious community's politics, education, and finance, with power rivaling kings in ancient societies where religion and politics were inseparable. The most famous historical example is the High Priest of ancient Israel (Cohen Gadol of the Jerusalem Temple), the only person who could enter the Holy of Holies once a year before Yahweh. They existed in all ancient civilizations — High Priests of Amun in Egypt, Delphi in Greece, and Inca and Mayan priest-kings — and the prototype continues today through the Pope of Catholicism, Dalai Lama of Tibetan Buddhism, and Grand Shrine Priests of Shinto.

A flanged metal club effective against armor

The mace is a striking weapon with a heavy metal head on a shaft, one of the oldest weapon types in human history. From the Bronze Age it was used as a club with a head of stone or metal, and in the Middle Ages it developed into a metal head with protruding flanges or a knobbed form, serving as an armor-crushing weapon. The flanged design in particular concentrates the force of the blow on a narrow edge, carrying the shock into the body even when the armor is not pierced. About 50 to 80 cm long with a head of about 1 to 2 kg, it was held in one hand and usually used with a shield. The story that medieval clergy wielded the mace so as not to shed blood is widely spread, but it is a later-made myth with little historical basis.

Anubis · Egyptian God — Guardian of Death and Mummification

Anubis is the god of ancient Egyptian mythology who guides the souls of the dead and presides over mummification rituals. Depicted with a black jackal head and human body, the deification likely originated from observing jackals frequently roaming Egyptian cemeteries and feeding on corpses, identifying them as 'gods of death and burial.' His most important duty was the 'weighing of the heart' — bringing the souls of the dead to the Hall of the Dead, weighing their hearts against the feather of Maat (goddess of justice) on a scale to judge whether the soul deserved entry into the afterlife. If the heart was lighter than the feather, the soul went to the Field of Reeds (Aaru) of eternal peace; if heavier, it was devoured by the monster Ammut and annihilated forever. He is said to have taught humans mummification, with Egyptian priests wearing Anubis masks during embalming ceremonies. A beloved god as the just and merciful guide of the afterlife.

Unicorn · Monoceros — Legendary Horse with a Sacred Horn

The unicorn is a legendary creature in the form of a white horse with a single spiraling horn on its forehead, a symbol of purity, virginity, and divinity. Originating from ancient Greek physician Ctesias's monoceros, it developed extensively in medieval Europe. Medieval bestiaries depicted it as a creature too fierce and fast for hunters to catch directly, willingly lying down only on the lap of a virgin maiden — religious iconographic allegory of the Virgin Mary and Christ's Passion. The horn, called 'alicorn,' was believed to neutralize all poisons, with real unicorn horns (actually narwhal tusks) traded for more than gold in medieval European royal courts. Standing alongside the lion (England) on the British royal coat of arms is the unicorn (Scotland). In American English, 'unicorn' also means 'extremely rare thing.' A sacred creature in every fantasy work from Harry Potter to Lord of the Rings.

Monoceros · Unicorn — Legendary one-horned creature

The monoceros (μονόκερως) is the unicorn of ancient Greek and Roman literature — the name combining Greek 'mono' (one) and 'keros' (horn). It first appears in the 4th-century BCE Greek physician Ctesias's Indica (Indian travelogue), described as a wild ass living in India with a 50cm horn striped white, red, and black on its forehead, with cups made from the horn rendering drinkers immune to poison. Pliny's Natural History redescribes it as 'horse body, elephant feet, pig tail, with a 60cm black horn at center,' gradually transforming. As it spread to medieval Europe, it became the Latin 'unicornus' and evolved into the familiar white horse-like unicorn — though the monoceros is still sometimes distinguished as a more wild and fierce original form.