Lizard Priest/Synopsis

## Chronology

### Goblin Slayer Volume 1

Lizard Priest arrives alongside his companions, High Elf Archer and Dwarf Shaman, to ask Guild Girl about Goblin Slayer's location. Eventually, he explains to him that they are representative adventurers for a coalition of races fighting against the Demon Lord and have come to recruit his aid. While Goblin Slayer is initially uninterested, Lizard Priest manages to recruit him by revealing that their mission is to destroy a nest of Goblins who have become a problem for the Elves.

While traveling to the ruins where the goblins have taken up residence, the party, now consisting of Lizard Priest, his companions, Goblin Slayer, and Priestess, stops to rest. Lizard Priest roasts a beast he had hunted and shares with everyone except Archer, who is a vegetarian. While eating they discuss their theories about where goblins come from and why they became adventurers, with Lizard Priest sharing that he was taught that goblins come from an underground kingdom and that he wishes to become a Naga like his ancestors respectively. Later when Goblin Slayer is prompted to share his cheese, Lizard Priest is able to try it for the first time and proclaims it to be the "nectar of the gods".

After venturing into the ruins, the party comes across a tortured elf, and Lizard Priest summons a Dragontooth Warrior to carry her to safety. When the party eventually makes it to the main hall, he helps Goblin Slayer and Archer slit the throats of all the goblins Priestess and Dwarf Shaman put to sleep. Then after they are discovered by the Ogre leading the goblins, he summons another Dragontooth Warrior and a Swordclaw to aid in the battle. He ends up facing the Ogre head-on after Goblin Slayer is briefly incapacitated and his warrior is crushed by rubble before Goblin Slayer ultimately kills it. In the aftermath, he heals Goblins Slayer's wounds using his Refresh miracle.

After their initial mission together, it is revealed that Lizard Priest, High Elf Archer, and Dwarf Shaman all moved into the town near Cow Girl's farm, when they arrive at the guild hall to buy Lizard Priest some Cheese. He is also present when Goblin Slayer arrives at the hall to ask for aid in defending the farm and helps keep Archer from making a scene. He later participates in the battle at the farm, finishing off many of the goblins knocked down by other adventurers.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 2

Lizard Priest along with the rest of the party take Goblin Slayer on an Adventure in some ancient forest ruins, as part of his payment to High Elf Archer for her aid in the battle to defend Cow Girls farm. After dealing with some goblins they return to town, and shortly thereafter, Goblin Slayer invites them on a quest to slay Goblins in Water Town.

At the Water Town, and after getting their quest from the Sword Maiden, Lizard Priest helps investigate the sewers, his resistance to poisons and his cartography skills coming in handy. As they battled Goblins living in the sewers, including Goblins riding on crude ships, a *large* albino alligator attacked the area destroying the Goblins and turned it's attention to the Party. As they ran, Lizard Priest joked he was incapable of communicating with the gator to ask it to stop chasing them until the led it to more Goblins and retreated to the surface.

During another excursion into the sewers, the Party is ambushed and nearly overtaken and critically injured, but with some quick thinking on saves them allowing Lizard Priest to carry the injured to the surface. Sword Maiden was able to heal the two, much to Lizard Priest's joy allowing them a come up with a new plan as Lizard Priest and Dwarf Shaman revealed they discovered a new path in the sewers.

Following the new path, Lizard Priest played his role in Goblin Slayer's plan to distract and Big Eye Monster and discovered a magic mirror the Goblins were using. Using his strength augmented by his *Brontosaurus* Miracle, Lizard Priest pulls the mirror from the wall and uses it as a shield to protect the Party from the collapsing catacomb. On their way back to the Frontier Town, Lizard Priest became extremely joyous at the mention that Goblin Slayer had discovered how to create "ice cream" and promised to make some for him.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 3

With the coming of the Harvest Festival in the Frontier Town, Lizard Priest joined Dwarf Shaman in their love of cuisine and looked forward to the delicacies of the Festival. Beforehand though, he and Dwarf Shaman helped the younger Rookie Adventurers build the floating lanterns of the Festival and decided to help Goblin Slayer as he created traps to keep the town safe during the Festival.

As the Festival kicked off, High Elf Archer's heightened hearing alerted her to Goblin Slayer who had discovered a massive wave of Goblins were on the charge, and Lizard Priest was rallied to defend the town by using his great strength in coordination with Goblin Slayer's traps makes the fight easy for him, even to the point of noting how effective the planning of Goblin Slayer is. Realizing a Dark Elf was the mastermind behind the attack, Lizard Priest and Dwarf Shaman team up to handle the dwindled Goblin Hoard while Goblin Slayer and High Elf Archer create an opening for Priestess to finish the Dark Elf.

Victorious, Lizard Priest returns to the Frontier Town to enjoy the festivities and treats.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 4

Lizard Priest is reminded of when he was recruited into the Party alongside Dwarf Shaman and High Elf Archer; and how the three fought back against a demon in their quest to search for the Goblin Slayer.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 5

As Winter sets in and Goblin Slayer receives a plea from Sword Maiden to help find her friend, Noble Fencer, Lizard Priest sets up to help despite his weakness to the cold, viewing it as a training to become stronger from the cold. He aids in liberating a mountain town from a Goblin invasion and plots a course to find Noble Fencer's last known location before deducing the Goblins had captured her.

After rescuing Noble Fencer, Lizard Priest was instrumental in getting his Party into the Goblin Fortress, disguising them as Chaos Cultists with his *Communicate* Miracle, allowing them to sneak in. As Noble Fencer caused the initial plan to fall apart, Lizard Priest and Dwarf Shaman splintered off from the group, destroying the Goblins' food reserves and saving the captured women as Goblin Slayer caused an avalanche to kill the Goblin Paladin.

With their success and rescue of Noble Fencer, Lizard Priest was happy to make it back to the Guild in time for the New Year's Celebration where he enjoyed the meals alongside Dwarf Shaman.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 6

During the Spring open enrollment for the Guild, Lizard Priest was happy to welcome the many new faces to the Guild, eager to give out advise and pray for the success of the rookies like Rhea Fighter. As the Training Center funded by Noble Fencer, now dubbed *Female Merchant*, had started to train the newcomers and other rookies, Lizard Priest offered his assistance in helping teach the rookies some skills, so they'd be better prepared for their Adventures.

The next morning, however, Lizard Priest was disheartened to hear that Priestess had not passed her promotional interview, and he offered her his condolences and words of wisdom about forming temporary Parties with other rookies to try and stand out better. Her failure though was met with ridicule from newcomer Wizard Boy which caused Lizard Priest to immediately jump to her defense, reminding him that his insults insulted all Priests present, making Wizard Boy enemy #1 for the Guild's Priests.

At Female Knight's recommendation, Lizard Priest joined his party in a search and rescue under Priestess's leadership and allowed Wizard Boy to join them, even though he was admittedly hesitant. Although Priestess leads the Party well, Wizard Boy's impatience nearly spells doom for them until Goblin Slayer and Lizard Priest handle the Troll, and they help Acolyte get to safety so she could be healed. Afterwards, Lizard Priest returns to helping the Training Center and encouraged Priestess to go on a mini Adventure with her rookie friends, so she can practice leading a Party of her own. Later, he would aid the other veterans in defending the training grounds from a Goblin Attack.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 7

Lizard Priest ended up becoming one of the many people High Elf Archer invited to her older sister, Forest Princess's wedding. Before leaving for the wedding, Lizard Priest and his Party went to a Temple where Goblins had captured many Priestesses and slew all the Goblins. After recusing the Priestesses, Lizard Priest and Goblin Slayer noticed strange tablets of a prophecy and decided to take them to Sword Maiden for study as they left for the Elven Kingdoms.

During the boat ride, Goblins attack the Party, revealing the Goblins had begun polluting the river and raiding the forest. After a bout, Lizard Priest used his *Dragon's Roar* Miracle to scare off the Goblin's wolves giving the Party a chance to rest and recollect themselves while agreeing to hunt down the Goblins later.

During the festivities, Lizard Priest went on to aid his Party in battling Goblins causing trouble in the Elven lands, ensuring the wedding would go off without a hitch.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 8

As Goblin Slayer accepted a request from Sword Maiden to escort her to the Capital, Lizard Priest and the rest of the Party decided to go with them.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 9

During the Winter, Lizard Priest spent most of his time by the fireplace in the Guild while Goblin Slayer decided to help Cow Girl make a delivery. As he rested, he over heard Rookie Warrior and Apprentice Cleric asking Priestess for help on a quest and decided to give them aid alongside the rest of his Party. As he helped the Rookie Duo up the mountain, he was happy to allow Priestess to take the lead alongside the Rookies for the Quest, furthering her training. It wasn't long before he and the rest of the Party encountered Harefolk Hunter who led them back to her village.

Back at the Harefolk Village, the Party is brought up to speed about the endless blizzard plaguing the land and the Ice Witch behind it with her small army of Yetis. With this, Lizard Priest joins up with Dwarf Shaman and High Elf Archer to battle the Yeti so Priestess can lead the Rookies and Harefolk Hunter to defeat the Ice Witch, bringing Spring back into the World.

After helping the rookies achieve victory, Priestess noticed a smoke sign and rallied Lizard Priest and the others to investigate. Upon finding the source of the smoke, Goblin Slayer battling an Ogre, Lizard Priest quickly move in to help and aided in Goblin Slayer's plan to drown the Ogre.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 10

During the Spring, Lizard Priest lent his aid to the Temple of the Earth Mother, helping keep their vineyards safe in preparation for the coming festival. After taking care of an Undead Mound filled with Undead Goblins and a minor Demon, Lizard Priest takes pride in the fact that he was able to play a vital role in defeating a demon as Priestess purified the area.

Later on, after strange rumors began to circulate about Priestess's senior Sister Grape, Lizard Priest voiced his concerns with Priestess's depression. When Padfoot Waitress revealed how a shady wine merchant had begun making moves with the Guild trying to supplant their current wine supplier, Sister Grape. Lizard Priest and the others began to see a correlation between the slander and the Wine Merchant and alongside other veteran members of the Guild began to form a plan to investigate.

Eventually, when the wine merchant was exposed, Lizard Priest went with his Party to stop an assault from Goblins in the Water Town. During the battle he was shocked when he found the Goblins had created a sort of "Battle Chariot" as well as a small fleet of boats in their latest charge. Afterwards, he celebrated in his usual way alongside his Party.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 11

During the Spring, Noble Fencer (now retitled as "Female Merchant") returned to the Frontier Town to ask Goblin Slayer and the Party for help in the Desert Kingdom to the East. Knowing he would far far better in the Desert than the snow, Lizard Priest was happy to help and used his connections to a captain on the Boarder to help expedite the Party's travel to the Desert.

After feeling a group of Goblins into a deserted town, Lizard Priest and the others realized that the inhabitants were killed by a massive sandstorm and hunkered down in the abandon buildings for shelter from the storm. After the storm, the Party were given a ride to the Desert Kingdom capital thanks to Myrmidon Monk and his caravan who gave Lizard Priest a map to memorize of the local area. During the initial scouting, Lizard Priest helped come up with a plan to rescue women captured by the Desert Captain's Goblin army.

Lizard Priest goes with the rest of the Party in a side entrance to save the captured women, but also sends one of his *Dragontooth Warriors* with Female Merchant to help distract the guards. After saving the girls, Lizard Priest has his *Dragontooth Warriors* take the girls to their escape ship as he goes with the Party to lead the Goblin Army away up the tower. Lizard Priest used his knowledge from the Desert Map to time their escape using the giant migrating Sand Manta to gently glide down to the escape ship as planned.

The escape didn't go quite as planned however, as the sand ship was docked at a small cavern where a Red Dragon was hibernating, that was awakened by a Goblin! Lizard Priest stepped up and gleefully went into battle to prove himself worthy of becoming a dragon himself and held the dragon down with all his might so Goblin Slayer could kill the Goblin keeping it awake and so Dwarf Shaman could use a spell to put the groggy the dragon back to sleep.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 12

During an adventure where his Party split up to cover more ground, Lizard Priest and Dwarf Shaman took Druid Girl, Scout Boy, and Half-Elf Light Warrior to a fortress on the border near the East to retrieve a special item. The individual was an old friend of Lizard Priest and he explained to the rookies that he took them along to help them make connections in the world.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 13

After clearing out another Goblin nest, Lizard Priest overhears that the Guild will be making a practice Dungeon for the Winter Festival and Lizard Priest agreed to help. Lizard Priest went with his Party to help clear out the abandoned ruins outside of the Frontier town, ensuring the ruins were unoccupied and safe for rookies.

During the event, Lizard Priest aiding the rest of his Party testing the rookies and giving them rewards for completing his tasks. When a freshly killed Goblin was discovered as well as a secret passage, Lizard Priest rallied to ensure the rookies and civilians were accounted for and protected as Goblin Slayer went in search of the missing contestant, The Girl.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 14

During the Winter, while trying to stay warm, Lizard Priest agreed with the rest of his Party when they wanted to encourage Goblin Slayer to try another kind of Quest aside from Goblin Slaying. So when he returned with a royal request to go to the North to aid the Vikings clans, Lizard Priest agreed to come along even if he didn't like the cold.

After traveling through a mountain towards the North, and escaping from a group of Goblins, Lizard Priest was greeted by the Vikings as a "Dreki" much to his confusion. Realizing the Vikings have a very "different" culture, Lizard Priest decided to enjoy his time amongst the Vikings instead of rocking the boat, even admitting the Vikings practice certain customs his people once practiced like "Bride-Taking" and found the connection amusing.

After some introductions to the settlement thanks to the Húsfreya, wife of the Viking Chieftain, Lizard Priest happily partakes in their festivities with some milk. Later, Lizard Priest is stirred to action when reports of larger than average Goblins, or "Orcs" as they are called in the North, have taken over a derelict ship and are rousing a Sea-Devil to help them plunder the coastal settlements. Alongside his Party, Lizard Priest is able to convince the Vikings to let them help end the Goblin Threat.

### Goblin Slayer Volume 15

After a Centaur warrior, Baturu, accuses Heavy Warrior of kidnapping and harassment of her tribe's princess, Lizard Priest volunteered to help clear his name when Baturu refused to back down when she had no evidence for her accusations. Whilst Lizard Priest attempted to be understanding and patience with her warrior culture and quick temper, he did note that her attitude and general unpleasantness wasn't helping her situation at all.

While investigating Water Town and running into Female Merchant, Lizard Priest and his Party are introduced to the very popular world of "City Centaur" that have build their entire culture on competitive sports, the Women's division being particularly popular. Lizard Priest made it clear he heavily respected the Centaur women for their absolute zeal for competition, even admitting he fancied Female Merchant's attendant "Lightning" for competing even if the races were hurting her legs. His admiration was challenged by Baturu who saw the women as "being put on display", to which he and Lightning retorted that Baturu shouldn't be so quick to constantly judge others and compare their beliefs to hers.

After discovering that the missing Centaur Princess matched the description of the rising star "Silver Blaze", Lizard Priest and his Party mounted a rescue when they were tipped off to an "immortal" sorcerer was supposedly in the nearby ruins. Using his Miracles, great strength, and wit matched his Goblin Slayer's, Lizard Priest and Dwarf Shaman were able to bury the crippled Immortal Sorcerer under the ruins as the girls recused Silver Blaze who was indeed the lost Princess.

Back in the Water Town during another Centaur race, Lizard Priest helped Baturu come to terms that her friend Silver Blaze, and even her sister the Centaur Waitress, were more than likely never returning to the Plains with her. Lizard Priest instead helps her understand that people and cultures change, but as long as they are ready to welcome their friends and families back with open arms, they will always have a place in their hearts.