The Priestess

### Aliases

Sigma
The Holy Maiden
The Angel
The Zealot
The Faith Incarnate

## Physical description

### Eye color

White/Blue

The Priestess is second boss of Loop Hero, while it unclear why a holy maiden would associate herself with an unholy abomination like the Lich. However, she claims that the Lich is carrying out the holy will of her God, believing that he has ordered the destruction of the World and all of existence. With her two angel bodyguards at her side, she shall carry out his will, either by word... or by force.

## Description

*Guided by her faith, she is ready and willing to punish heretics and apostates of all kinds. Her icy stare and fiery speeches will pierce anyone's heart. And if they don't - then the piercing will be done by the swords of the angels she summons. She protects herself with immaculate windows of colorful stained glass that distracts the eye and mesmerizes the mind.*

## Abilities and Specifics

####   **Wrath of the Heavens**

Summons two angels instead of an attack. Each angel disappears after dealing two attacks.

In chapter 2 she summons only one angel.

####   **Iconostasis**

Creates 5 stained-glass windows instead of every 2nd attack. Has 20% chance to be protected by one of the windows.

Each stained-glass window tells a part of the story how Alpha the Allfather was killed by the Defiler and become Omega the Alldeath.

## Lore

### First article:

*Sigma is the best one of us. She is kind and devout; her sermons are simple but so sincere. She doesn't just "believe" - she "knows". Her service is not in her gentle smile or kind words, but in her burning hatred for all evil and injustice.*

*Her pilgrimage takes her to the most distant lands, where she often suffers wounds so grievous that she survives only by a miracle. Any evil she encounters, however insurmountable it might seem, is is cut down by the angels she guides.*

*Why am I so ashamed to look in her eye? Is it because my faith is too weak? Just how much harder should I pray, how much more should I abandon to become at least a fraction like her?*

*Her last journey ended in failure. I pray for her health. There hasn't been any news about her for a long time. This already happened before. I know the Heavens will protect their most devoted daughter, but I worry still. I can barely eat because of the stress. The sisters worry for me.*

### Second article:

*I don't feel well at all. Every day my spirit weakens. How could Sigma abandon us when I need her so? I've sinned too much... I'm too impure. If she were here, all this blasphemy in my head would just dissipate like a cloud of black smoke.*

*My prayers give me strength. I'm doing a week's worth of hard work in one day. And my body never grows tired anymore. Is this the result of my prayers for HER health? My hair has turned gray, but everyone tells me I look even younger than before. This sickness should fade as soon as I see our dear Sigma again. I pray. For everything. Constantly.*

### Third article:

*My clothes were brought to me. All doubts will disappear today. This diary has no meaning now, but I will write in this page in memory of our sister. I am to comfort what remains of her mind in her body, until it fades completely. I'm very sorry that my return means another death - but so is the higher will, so it's for the greater good. The pain of her physical changes has ceased. And her spiritual suffering will soon be over too. As she closes her eyes, I - Sigma - open these eyes, now mine. I shall greet a new day. And in the name of all my sisters, this day won't be for naught.*

## Dialogs

**1st Encounter:**

* **The Priestess:** *Could you please stop?*
* **Hero:** *So it's you who's responsible for all this mess. Stop doing what?*
* **The Priestess:** *Stop... Doing all this. Resisting, fighting for the old world. He will erase everything anyway. I'm sorry, but that's how it must go.*
* **Hero:** *So, a mysterious "Him" again. I expect that you're not going to explain who you are talking about, are you?*
* **The Priestess:** *Why wouldn't I? I'm talking about God.*
* **Hero:** *.....*
* **The Priestess:** *He created myriads of stars, galaxies, and... Oh, what am I saying - He created everything! And now He is destroying His creation.*
* **Hero:** *That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard. And trust me, I've heard a lot of absurdities.*
* **Hero:** *Why would God want to destroy the world?*
* **The Priestess:** *That's what I would call a silly question. Do you think we have a right to discuss God's motives?*
* **The Priestess:** *He's God, for God's sake! If He is decided, it has to be done. It means that there is a reason and a meaning to it.*
* **The Priestess:** *Instead of all your rage and anger, you ought to thank Him for the life you've had and spend the time that's left to bid the universe goodbye.*
* **Hero:** *No! Wait...! That's not right. If all that is true, then why am I still able to resist? Why am I able to restore this world piece by piece? It's very slow, but I'm still able to do it.*
* **Hero:** *Does that mean your God is having second thoughts? Is he a God at all, if I can go against his will?*
* **The Priestess:** *These are just empty words. You're simple trying to find a reason to say your unimportant "No".*
* **The Priestess:** *I feel sorry for you and for this world, but your efforts are in vain. You can't stop the harvesting scythe of God with a single blade of grass.*
* **The Priestess:** *I shall end you personally. By word or by force if need be.*
* **Hero:** *Well, maybe a "blade of grass" won't stop a scythe, but it can get into your shoe and hurt like... You know what, metaphors are really not my thing.*
* **Hero:** *Let's see how well your God can protect you.*

**1st Kill:**

* **The Priestess:** *It hurts... So much. Each time like the first. I still can't get used to it.*
* **Hero:** *Yeah. Dying isn't very nice. And that's what the whole world feels right now. Not a great feeling, as you noticed. Now you...! Wait. What do you mean, "each time"?*
* **The Priestess:** *This is not the first time. My faith in the Almighty brings me back to life again and again for the sake of my great mission. To spread His word, and preach humility, obedience and acceptance of the salvation He offers.*
* **The Priestess:** *And each time I fail. No peaceful conversations. Only the lifeless bodies of the heretics. Or my own lifeless body.*
* **Hero:** *Then why can't you see the desire to survive is natural part of this world? I don't know how or when it happened, but you seem to have misunderstood the motives of the Almighty.*
* **The Priestess:** *Misunderstood? Me? That's impossible. I have faith. I am the faith. I don't need to know or prove anything.*
* **The Priestess:** *And you... what are you even trying to achieve? Nothing will ever be like it was anymore. Not even close.*
* **Hero:** *I don't know. Maybe it will. I can still try.*
* **The Priestess:** *You're just a fool, that's what you are. We'll meet again. Just let me rest awhile...*
* **Hero:** *...*
* **Hero:** *Looks like she's gone. I can hardly believe her corpse could ever come back to life. But even if it will, I should still give her a proper burial.*

**2nd Encounter (If Hero had died before defeating her the first time):**

* **The Priestess:** *Could you please stop?*
* **Hero:** *I refuse. To arms!*

**2nd Encounter:**

* **The Priestess:** *Could you please stop? Please hear me out.*
* **Hero:** *What? You again? Is it the Lich's magic? You don't look like an undead, but I don't have any other explanation.*
* **The Priestess:** *Omicron, the dead sorcerer. I remember now. Did you kill him? I spent so long with him, trying to explain the emptiness of his knowledge, sharing my vision.*
* **The Priestess:** *I will miss these attempts to set him on a righteous path. And no, it has nothing to do with his magic.*
* **Hero:** *Then how...? Forget it. I actually don't care. Thank you for the offer. I refuse.*
* **The Priestess:** *You're just scared. You want to know if I'm really telling the truth, right? If you knew the Maker really is the one who returns everything to oblivion, would you accept it and submit?*
* **Hero:** *Are you asking out of curiosity? Let me think...*
* **The Priestess:** *I'm asking because I want to help you.*
* **Hero:** *To tell the truth, even knowing you're right wouldn't change a thing.*
* **The Priestess:** *Wh... Why?! It is literally the will of the Maker! You're telling me all this nonsense just because you're unable to comprehend it all! How can you still resist, knowing this is His will?!*
* **Hero:** *I don't know. That's how we're made to be, I guess.*
* **The Priestess:** *Know that I will oppose you again and again. Maybe someday we'll be able to continue this conversation, but not today. For I am filled with anger.*
* **Hero:** *Is it righteous anger?*
* **The Priestess:** *It is righteous anger!*

**2nd Kill:**

* **The Priestess:** *Unacceptable!*
* **Hero:** *You can rage all you want. Your rage won't stop me.*
* **The Priestess:** *I am enraged. But not at you. I was given such power, but I am unworthy. I cannot convince even a single fool to lower his weapon.*
* **The Priestess:** *One more servant of God shall perish because of me.*
* **Hero:** *This is it. I'm burning your body this time. Farewell to you.*
* **The Priestess:** *Burn me, cut me to pieces, bury me - there's no difference. I am the faith itself. Do you think you can kill faith?*
* **Hero:** *No. But I think that I've learned a lot from you. I will have faith.*
* **Hero:** *I will have faith in this world. And I will believe in my success.*

**3rd Encounter:**

* **The Priestess:** *Could you please stop?*
* **Hero:** *I refuse. To arms!*

**3rd Kill:**

* **The Priestess:** *And a failure again...*
* **Hero:** *Till we meet again, zealot.*

## Resources You Get

* Living Fabric
* Orb of Immortality

## Unlockable Traits

* vampirism percentage for warrior
* critical hit chance for rogue
* flat 20% chance for necromancer (each of his skeletons also has a 20% chance to trigger it)

## Tips

* Iconostasis is the big issue in this battle. You need to be able to have enough Attack Speed that you can slip through and damage her before she brings her windows back up again. For that reason, Forests and Thickets are almost a necessity. If you can get four attacks in before she can attack twice, you'll have a decent chance of beating her.
* The Necromancer is arguably the best class to take her on. Focus on raising your Attack Speed and Max Skeletons to summon as many skeletons as possible, as fast as possible. Each of their attacks will either break one of her Iconoclast windows, or slip through them to deal damage to her. Unlike the Warrior and Rogue, your skeletons will never run out of stamina, so they can keep attacking until they perish.
* Guards can help outpace the Priestess as well.
* Storm Temple ignores windows.

## Trivia

* According to the in-game Encyclopedia, the Priestess' name is Sigma. It is also the symbol she is associated with in one of The Tome's page.
* Her stained-glasses are depicted in one of The Tome's page :

The first two images depict a human figure that seems to be ascending. The last two depict a human figure that, on the opposite, seems to be falling. The middle one depicts two figures (possibly the same) but differs between the book and the stained-glass. In the book, the two figures are back to back, hands joined in prayer, and both transpierced with a spear. On the stained-glass, it is unclear wether the dark figure pierces the heart of the white figure, or if they are both transpierced by it, back to back, just like in the book. It is possible that the white figure depicts Alpha, and the dark one depicts Omega

Overworld view of the Priestess, after summoningThe Priestess appears"Miracles of Faith"

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