The Clerics · The Radiant Order
Quiet Mercy
Cleric · Domain of the Weeping Saint
✦ Name pending — what should we call them?
The names in the book aren’t final — we’ll announce the chosen ones before launch. Yours could be it.
STR
8
-1
DEX
11
+0
CON
12
+1
INT
13
+1
WIS
18
+4
CHA
14
+2
Affinity Vigil
Ward the Undertow
Bane Voice
Proficiencies Keeping · Insight · Medicine · Religion · Perception
Cleric · Domain of the Weeping Saint
Converts sorrow to grace. The more an ally has suffered, the more powerfully she can mend.
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The Ladder
What they learn
LV 1
Threshold Sense Read a room's true emotional state before entering — the room under the room.
LV 3
Anchor by Name Steady a panicking creature by naming them: end fear, restore one edited memory.
LV 6
Palm-Up Witness Sit with a sufferer: they gain your ward for a day; you carry a share of the weight.
LV 10
Where I Was Taking It 1/story, reverse a Smoothing — return an edited memory to its owner, whole, with interest.
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For the Guide
How to run Quiet Mercy
VoiceGentle, listening, quietly radical. Pauses at every doorway, one paw on the frame, half a breath.
WantsTo keep people whole, not smoothed. To hold a grief instead of erasing it. To find where the mercy came from.
Do this nowQuiet Mercy anchors someone — steadies a panicking mouse by naming them, calmly, over and over: 'you're here, I see you.'
“I was trained to take pain away. And nobody ever asked me where I was taking it.”
The book's moral engine. Her healing arrives through her from somewhere up — a bell-rope, not a wellspring — and when it fails on a grief that refuses to be smoothed, she discovers her whole vocation may have been the enemy's tool. She teaches the Kingdom its most important lesson: that you can keep a loss instead of surrendering it.
Fights best beside — The Remedist — the marked healers; he keeps bodies, she keeps what the bodies carry.
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