Priestess

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**Priestess** (女神官, *Onna Shinkan*) is the main female protagonist of the *Goblin Slayer* series.

After Goblin Slayer saves her life during her first adventure, she becomes the first member of his party and frequently accompanies him during adventures.

## Appearance

Priestess is a pretty young woman with long blond hair that is tied back in a small ponytail by a small blue bow with chest-length hair strands hanging on either side and blue eyes.

She is usually seen wearing white robes over blue garbs, both laced with golden outlines and wielding a golden-colored staff decorated with blue jewels. Unseen, during adventures, she also wears protective chainmail under her garb.

## Personality

Priestess is a kind and empathic person who has no problems making new friends, although she can be rather shy at first. She is always noted by others to be frail and delicate-looking, and is rather prone to shedding tears and going red-faced when troubled; this usually happens whenever Goblin Slayer is being callous. Still, she can and does maintain her assertiveness while tearing up all the same.

However, her passive behavior can render her emotionally vulnerable to extreme life-threatening situations. When her first party was slaughtered during her first adventure, she broke down and was too frightened to move. Priestess reacted the same way when when her current party members were about to meet the same fate in Water Town's catacombs.

Occasionally, she has shown confusion and anxiety over the way her miracles were being used under the instructions of Goblin Slayer, who makes full use of its effectiveness in brutal tactics. This only gets worse when she returns to the temple and receives more miracles, making her wonder why the Earth Mother would grant her these protective miracles if they were being used in such a contradictory manner.

## Abilities

Priestess possesses defensive and support miracles granted by the Earth Mother. She has been noted as having more miracles than those her age. Traveling with Goblin Slayer has also shown her unconventional ways of using her miracles, allowing her to be a more useful ally in combat. She possesses six miracles: Minor Heal, Protection, Silence, Holy Light, Purify and Sanctuary. Priestess can only cast three miracles a day.

* **Strategy**: Priestess has become very resourceful and clever under Goblin Slayer's tutelage. Against stronger enemies, she will outsmart them by take advantage of their weak points to defeat them. Her party members compared her to Goblin Slayer in this regard.

### Miracles

* **Holy Light**《聖光 (ホーリーライト)  *Hōrīraito*》: Used to temporarily blind opponents with a large flash of light.
* **Minor Heal**《小癒 (ヒール)  *Hīru*》: Used to heal minor injuries but cannot cure anyone suffering from poison or restore lost vitality.
* **Protection**《聖壁 (プロテクション)  *Purotekushon*》: Allows Priestess to create a magical barrier that shields her (and her party members) from attacks and projectiles. She has also used it to confine goblins in a burning fortress, to restrain Goblin Lord, and to crush a greater demon's hand against an oncoming elevator car. However, she can only create one barrier for each cast.
* **Purify**《浄化 (ピュアリファイ)  *Pyuarifai*》: Enables Priestess to remove impurities from people and items, such as cleaning off the clothes and body of one or more people and purifying water or air to a certain extent. She can also use it to disrupt evil spellcasting mechanics that are using spilled blood or other impure substances, by transforming the substance into pure water. During a desperate situation against a goblin shaman, she has also used it to turn the goblin shaman's blood into water. However, using Purify this way is considered a transgression against the Earth Mother, a deity of mercy and compassion, and while the deity granted it Priestess was directly warned by her not do so again.
* **Silence**《沈黙 (サイレンス)  *Sairensu*》: An area effect miracle that removes all sound within a certain range. Priestess used this in conjunction with Dwarf Shaman's Stupor to allow the rest of her party to kill a nest of goblins without them being alerted to the act as it happened.
* **Sanctuary**: An area of effect Miracle that functions as a secure purification. It is used by Priestess to block out snow coming into a cave.

### Equipment

* **Sounding Staff**: Used to cast her various miracles.
* **Chainmail Armor**: Taking advice from Goblin Slayer after her first ordeal with Goblins, Priestess bought and equipped some chainmail. She treasures it as the first thing Goblin Slayer praised her for.
* **Sling**: She has been seen using a sling, though she still needs development with the weapon.
* **Flail**: Priestess used it as a ceremonial item during the Harvest Festival. During the battle against Dark Elf, she uses it to cast her miracles. Though, she admits the flail is "not her preferred equipment" due to hitting herself with them a few times when she was training.

## Trivia

* Throughout the series, it has been shown that Priestess is a genius in the handling of the sacred arts, being able to use healing at a very young age, in addition to the fact that her enchantments are usually abnormally and extremely powerful for someone of her age.
* Despite being in some adventures of her own and having been invited to other parties, Priestess chooses to stay with Goblin Slayer due to the deep connection and trust they have with each other, .
* Being the closest person to Goblin Slayer and thanks to his kindness and empathy, Priestess has managed to know Goblin Slayer better than anyone else and vice versa, because of this, both have generated a certain level of emotional dependence on each other when it comes to adventures.
* Throughout the series, the Priestess has been shown to guard with great appreciation and zeal everything that Goblin Slayer has congratulated her on, such as her chainmail, as well as her skill with the slingshot and her ability to remember and learn everything he teaches her.
* On the textboard version of the series, Priestess' placeholder design was the Female Priest from *Dragon Quest III*.

## References

1. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Light Novel* - Volume 10, Chapter 1: Storm Front
2. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Light Novel* - Volume 6, Chapter 2: The Red-Haired Wizard Boy
3. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Light Novel* - Volume 12, Chapter 2: Of How Girls Want to Go on Adventures, Too
4. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Light Novel* - Volume 6, Chapter 7: Onward to Adventure
5. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Light Novel* Volume 9, Chapter 3: Fleet of Foot
6. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Light Novel* Volume 9, Chapter 8: Into the Maelstrom
7. ↑ *Goblin Slayer* Light Novel - Volume 7, Chapter 1: A Handout for Her
8. ↑ *Goblin Slayer* Light Novel - Volume 7, Chapter 1: A Handout for Her
9. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Light novel* - Volume 8, Chapter 8: The Heart of the Maelstrom
10. ↑ *Goblin Slayer* Light Novel - Volume 7, Chapter 8: A Midsummer Night's Dream
11. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Light Novel* – Volume 1, Chapter 8: Goblin Slaying
12. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Light Novel* - Volume 8, Chapter 4: City Adventure
13. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Light Novel* - Volume 3, Chapter 1: Harvest Moon
14. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Manga* - Chapter 30
15. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Light Novel* - Volume 3, Chapter 6: Seven Powers
16. ↑ https://yaruok.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-4317.html