Damacest

Damacest is patron of the healing arts, whether they be medicinal, alchemical or magical. Damacest also looks kindly on those who tend to other hurts; such as aiding those who help reconcile differences, hearing the confessions of burdened souls, and comforting the traumas of the emotionally troubled.

Whenever disease and pestilence stalk the land, folk will give offerings to Damacest for a protection or a cure. Those wishing for children will pray for fertility, while the lame and sick often travel in search of hallowed centres of healing. Soldiers will always give offerings and prayers before heading to battle, hoping to avoid injury or to attract the ministrations of a healer.

Shrines to Damacest can often be found by fountains, wells and streams where water is drawn. Many temples often serve as houses of healing or asylums, whilst the largest minsters may be located at the site of mystical healing pools and vapour vents. Pilgrims may travel across Albion to visit a particular church that is known to cure specific ailments.

Priests of Damacest strive to offer warmth and hospitality to all. They seek to help those afflicted with sickness, and to advise monarchs on how to ward off plagues and tend to those injured in conflict. Those who have been blessed with the powers of corporeal magic are often drawn to hosts of war where their skills are always welcome. 

Knights and warriors of Damacest take up arms to defend those who cannot defend themselves, offering quarter on the battlefield but striking true where they know they must. 

Although associated with healing, Avatars of Damacest are depicted carrying the Spear of Life into battle, a weapon that warms the hearts of the faithful as it fells the enemies of Albion and those who would seek to bring destruction and death upon the innocent.