​Battlefield Role: Inquisition Agent
Weapons: A mace, a short sword and a sacred scepter.
Outfit: A big red surcoat over a brigandine uniform. They always display the inquisition symbol on a pendant.
Skill level: Expertise in preaching authoritative sermons.
Affiliation: Marble Strip.
Doctrine: Hera's Way of the Righteous
Strengths: An inquisitress is a religious instrument for bestowing the wrath of the heavens upon those who stray from the righteous path. They are the divine response to heresy, and a merciless one.
Weaknesses: They have no authority in places completely taken over by heresy, like the Edgelands.
​Inquisitress
The Priestesses of Hera are well known for their mercy, piety and benevolence. Through their complete devotion to the goddesses, they are the ones to guide the amazons in the ways of chivalry and righteousness, preaching the religious teachings of Hera the All-Mother and assuring the continuity of the amazon faith.
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However, it is also their sacred duty to fight against all forms of heresy and evil. Sometimes a more "unorthodox" approach must be used to ensure that the people do not stray too much from the right path, and this is when the Holy Inquisitresses come in.
Appointed to such title directly by the curia of high priestesses at the Marble Strip, an Inquisitress' sacred duty is to thoroughly investigate, prosecute and punish all those who fell victim to the foul temptations of darkness. Either by enlightening their way back to the light, or by simply cutting heresy off from society by its very roots, they are empowered to command any other religious forces around them and fully entitled to use brute force in any extent to bring divine justice upon the mortals. For this to happen, they are very well trained to fight and to command military forces in righteous crusades, crushing the forces of evil without any kind of mercy.
Their methods are admittedly grim and merciless though, so the Inquisitresses are only appointed and sent to perform an inquisition or start a crusade as the very last measure. Their presence cause fear amongst anyone near them, while their public sermons about the dire consequences of succumbing to heresy makes anyone certainly think twice before ever falling to temptation. The most frequent form of heresy that they fight off is the worship to the fallen goddess Eris, who is believed to live amongst the mortals and feed on the agony of the living. For some odd reason, worshipers of this evil entity's wicked ways seem to sporadicaly appear on small comunities scattered across the nation, while the vast majority of the arandolian bandits, pirates and criminals are also devout followers of Eris' heretic religion. No Inquisitress ever has mercy on such cases, burning heathens alive on big pires of fire and making an example out of them.
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As brutal as it may sound, their methods are sure to work quite well. Unless, of course, we are talking about the Edgelands. The Edgelands is a foul region, completely taken over by anarchy and heresy, which means any Inquisitress foolish enough to cross its borders is sure to meet a terrible death within a day or so. Many were the Inquisitresses who thought they'd be the ones to finally issue a righteous crusade to cleanse the Edgelands from evil by marching entire armies of religious troops straight towards Westmarsh, but so far all that remains of them are big piles of desecrated corpses rotting on the putrid bogs of the Edgelands.