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Originally Posted by rwforest
I just want to put in a vote for leaving Priest and Theologian as is. The D&D Cleric is a very D&D invention, a strange ahistorical mix of vampire hunter and knight templar tropes and ubiquitous divine magic. Its resonance with fantasy literature is backwards -- things that have come since D&D have adopted some of its tropes, but things that came before don't have much that is identifiably it.
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It's not too far from the Norse Godi nor the Celtic Druids - both of whom were priest-magicians.
Nor is it too far from the pre-christian middle-eastern vizeer type, tho' more commonly an evil one in the translated literature, and thus not suited as PCs.
It's only in the judeo-christian settings where priests are not also seen as magic users.