The Lorekeeper's Tome

The Bishop

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The Bishop is the keeper of both keys, the one caller who holds the arcane and the divine in a single mind - to heal with one hand and hurl fire with the other. It is the rarest and most demanding of the callings, and the Reach makes the Bishop pay for it. They learn slowly, every working coming to them later than it comes to the specialists, and through the long early years a Bishop is a weak and frustrating thing to raise. But the Bishop who endures becomes one of the most powerful and flexible figures alive, equal to any need a journey can throw up, and the surest hand in the Reach at naming an unknown working or an unmarked relic for what it truly is. The slow burn, the masters call it: painful to raise, and superb once raised.

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