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.

Unicorn · Monoceros — Legendary Horse with a Sacred Horn

The Unicorn (Latin unicornis, from uni 'one' + cornu 'horn') is the legendary one-horned creature of medieval Europe, represented as a white horse with a single spiral horn in the middle of the forehead and a symbol of purity, chastity, and the sacred. Its etymological root reaches back to Ctesias' fifth-century BCE monoceros, but the unicorn proper crystallised when the Greek Septuagint rendered the Hebrew re'em (now identified as the aurochs) as monokeros and the Latin Vulgate of Saint Jerome rendered that, in turn, as unicornis. The Physiologus of the second to fourth centuries CE introduced the maiden-and-unicorn allegory: no hunter can take the unicorn by force, but a virgin alone in the forest will draw it to her, where it lays its head in her lap and falls asleep. This was theologised as the Incarnation, the unicorn being Christ entering the Virgin's womb. The Cloisters set of seven 'Hunt of the Unicorn' tapestries (Netherlands, 1495-1505) and the Cluny 'Lady with the Unicorn' set of six (c. 1500) are the iconographic peaks. The unicorn supports the Scottish side of the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom, and in twenty-first-century English it has become the standard term for billion-dollar startups.

Monoceros · Unicorn — Legendary one-horned creature

The Monoceros (Greek Monokeros, Latin Monoceros, 'single horn') is the archetype of the one-horned beast in Greek and Roman natural history. It first appears in the Indika of Ktesias of Knidos (fifth century BCE), a Greek physician at the Persian court who describes wild asses of India with white bodies, purple heads, blue eyes, and a single horn about one cubit long, banded in white, black, and crimson; cups carved from the horn make the drinker immune to poison, seizures, and epilepsy. In the first century CE, Pliny the Elder's Natural History VIII.31 standardised the description as 'a body like a horse, head like a stag, feet like an elephant, tail like a boar, and a single black horn about two cubits long in the middle of the forehead.' When this image reached medieval Europe through Latin sources it was equated with unicornus, the unicorn. In later fantasy, however, Monoceros often persists as a wilder, fiercer original distinct from the white-horse unicorn.

Anubis · Egyptian God — Guardian of Death and Mummification

Anubis (Egyptian Anpu, Greek Anubis) is the underworld god of ancient Egyptian mythology — the decisive canon — who guides the souls of the dead and presides over the mummification (embalming) ritual — the decisive canonical iconographic figure with a jackal's head and a human body, black skin or fur. Aliases — Anpu (Anpu), Imy-ut (Imy-ut, 'He who is in the bandages'), Khenty-amentiu (Khenty-amentiu, 'Foremost of the Westerners'), Wepwawet (Wepwawet) — are the decisive canonical vocabulary. The decisive textual canon is the decisive origin canon of the Pyramid Texts (Pyramid Texts) of Pharaoh Unas (Unas) of Saqqara of the 5th Dynasty of Egypt of c. 2400-2300 BCE, and the decisive canon of Spell 125 of the Book of the Dead (Book of the Dead, Book of Coming Forth by Day) of the New Kingdom of Egypt of c. 1550 BCE. The decisive mythological canon is the decisive canon of the 'Weighing of the Heart' — the decisive canon in which Anubis brings the soul of the deceased to the Hall of Two Truths and weighs his heart against the feather of Maat (Ma'at, goddess of justice) on a scale.