Know Your Lore: Archbishop Benedictus of the Holy Light

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12-07-2011 @ 10:27AM

LynMars said...

Unlike traditional fantasy faiths where a deity has to give the practitioner the power, the Light as taught by the Human/Dwarven/High Elven Cathedral is a philosophy based on tapping into the holy power that flows through the life of the universe, affected by the practitioner's own willpower.

That's why Scarlets and other corrputed people could still use it; while they fell far from the Church's philosophy of benevolence and twisted the idea of making the world better through their own actions, they still had the knowledge and the will to work with the energy.

Even if his faith was shattered, Benedictus' will seemed to be mostly intact, though he reverts to Shadow in the second half of the fight (which always strikes me as a more psychic power in the hands of a priest, given the mental themes of the spells, so again likely linked to willpower in a way).

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