Cleric

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**Clerics** are the Kalyazin version of the blood mage. They are usually chosen by a single god who communes with them and bestows magic in them.

## Description

The gods only give the amount of magic that a cleric can handle, though the cleric can always reach for more. But it's a channel, and the gods can stop the flow of power. Nadya doesn't believe cleric generally die because of magic.

## Known Clerics

* **Kseniya Mirokhina:** Gifted with unnatural marksmanship by Devonya.
* **Svoyatovi Ivan Moroshkin:** A cleric of Devonya. Where his arrows fell, fire consumed.
* **Svoyatova Alisha Varushkina:** Associated with Bozidarka, a seer who protected western Kalyazin until she was killed by a low prince from the west, Dimitri Zyuganow.
* **Svoyatova Nyura Zlobina:** A cleric of Omunitsa who molded water to drown an army.
* **Svoyatova Valeriya Zolotova:** A cleric of Omunitsa who drowned in a flood sent by her goddess to wipe out the ancient city of Tokhvoloshnik.
* **Svoyatova Evgenia Dyrbova:** The last known cleric, she was associated with Marzenya. Her last words were considered a prophecy of doom, stating that if nothing changed and the war continued, Kalyazin would be doomed.
* **Svoyatova Lizavieta Zhilova:** She was a cleric of Marzenya who killed the blood mage Pyotr Syslo who burned her village as a child.
* **Svoyatova Alevtina Polacheva:** A cleric of Marzenya, she was an assassin skilled at the art of death. She was killed on a mission in Tranavia.
* **Svoyatova Violetta Zhestakova:** A cleric of Marzenya who was thirteen when she led a Kalyazi army in the Battle of Relics in 1510. She was killed by the blood mage Apolonia Sroka.
* **Svoyatova Valentina Benediktova:** A cleric of Marzenya whose path became clouded when it crossed with the blood mage Urszula Klimowska. At twelve she defended the city of Tolbirnya. There is no record of her death, and her body was never found.
* **Svoyatova Serafima Zyomina:** A cleric of Marzenya blessed with strange magic that never seemed to work the same way twice. Enemies seeing her on the battlefield knew she meant a slow and agonizing death for she was like Marzenya in her cruelty.
* **Svoyatovi Valentin Rostov:** A cleric of Myesta who used his goddess' powers of deception to infiltrate Tranavia at the beginning of the war until he was killed by a Tranavian prince.
* **Svoyatovi Klavdiy Guin:** A cleric of Bozetjeh who was a master of time until he disappeared and was never heard from again and his body was never found.
* **Svoyatovi Nikita Lisov:** A cleric of Krsnik who abandoned his life as a holy man to use his power to entertain. The use of one of his finger bones in a battle in 625 turned the tide against Tranavian when it burst into flames and wiped out a full Tranavian company.
* **Svoyatovi Konstantin Nemtsev:** A cleric of Veceslav during a rare time of peace. He was captured by Tranavian blood mages and drawn and quartered, ending the peace.
* **Celestyna Privalova:** She was a cleric of Veceslav who defected.
* **Anastasiya Shelepova:** She was a cleric of Zlatek who was discovered dabbling in blood magic. She was burned as a heretic after Zlatek stripped her of her magic and voice. Her miracles were discounted and all references of her burned out of the texts because of her ultimate transgressions.
* **Svoyatovi Lukyan Starodubtsev:** The only cleric ever to be taken to the Salt Mines and survive, but his eyes never stopped bleeding.
* **Svoyatova Inessa Besfamilny:** A cleric with no record of which god touched her. Her lover, Marya Telkinova, was corrupted by a *kashyvhes*, forcing Inessa to kill her and the entire village Marya corrupted. It is said the Govanitsy River was created by Inessa’s tears.
* **Evdokiya Solodnikova:** A cleric who was saved by Svoyatova Elzbieta Pientka, a Tranavian who burned in her place.