Editing FANGS: Appendix D - Priest (section)

==Churches & Priests ==

The church plays a fundamental role in most fantasy worlds, acting as an intermediary intermediary or defender between people and very real fantasy ghods, saints, angels, daemons, or spirits -- which we generically call Presences. Priests are the human emissaries of the church. Priests also act to counter and balance the power of other Presences, as well as other forms of magic. 

Priest as we describe them here is a very generic term for anyone with a relationship with a Presence, whether they be a religious cleric, a monk, a nun, a shaman, or even odder relationships that are in fact a form of Priesthood such as witches and demonologists. 

Priests band together with those of common faith in a number of ways, most typically known as a church or temple, but sometimes they are also known as a cult. Generically we will call any assemblage of priests a Church.