Ecclesiarchy Priest - Role: The Adeptus Ministorum, or Ecclesiarchy, tends to the religious needs of the Imperium's teeming Human masses. It is completely separate from the Adeptus Terra, concerned with looking after Humanity's spiritual needs rather than maintaining a galaxy-spanning empire. Nevertheless, the Ecclesiarchy is a vast and powerful institution comprising millions of clergymen and hundreds of thousands of dioceses spread across the far reaches of Imperial space. In the past this has led the  Ecclesiarchy into abuses of power and outright civil war, such as during the Age of Apostasy in the 36th Millennium before the state church was reformed by the Ecclesiarch Sebastian Thor in the wake of the terrible events of the Reign of Blood.Yet the Ministorum endures, guiding Humanity in its  superstitious and dogmatic worship of the Emperor. At the forefront of this vast church are the clerics, preachers, confessors and missionaries. Unlike the cardinals and pontifex that scurry around the ancient corridors of the great cathedrals of Terra and Ophelia VII, the spiritual homes of the Ecclesiarchy, the priests and other such clergy live and work amongst the population. It is here that they preach the word of the Emperor, spread the faith of the Imperial Creed and shepherd the Human  race, for if they were negligent in such duties Chaos would surely take hold.Priests and clerics of the Ecclesiarchy are fiery individuals, who lead from the front. They are charismatic men and women and great orators, able to incite and inspire the common folk with their speeches, commanding loyalty, respect and wonder in the Emperor and His ordained servants. On many occasions the Imperium has used such men to rouse populations to action at a critical moment of a foul xenos invasion or to flush out a deep-rooted Chaos Cult.A priest has many skills, as they are an orator, they can hold their own in  combat and they are usually educated and wise in the ways of the Immperium. However, such a broad base of skills means that they rarely specialise. Still, there are those within the Ministorum that follow a path long after others have moved on to learn a new lesson. This breeds a diverse clergy -- from overly suspicious zealots, who see heresy around every corner and stir up entire populations to burn innocents on a flaming pyre, to those who will steep themselves in ancient lore, spending standard years in great, dusty catacombs studying ageing scrolls on pointless intricacies of ceremonies and rituals.Despite many attempts by numerous ecclesiarchs to pursue theological unity, the Ministorium is riven by disparate sects and religious ideals. Although all have the common theme of worshiping Him-On-Earth, the God-Emperor, it is in the details of how to pursue that faith where such disagreements and inconsistencies arise. Over the years, this has spawned numerous different orders within the Ecclesiarchy; the majority of clerics belong to one of the different orders and this has a profound effect on how the clergy perform their duties and preach to the masses. Although never acknowledged publicly, it has been rumoured that occasionally these orders have gone to war with each other, though open bloodshed is rare.