Priestess

Priestess (女神官) is the main female protagonist of the Goblin Slayer series. She is a member of Goblin Slayer's party.

Appearance
Priestess is a beautiful young woman with long blond hair and blue eyes. She is usually seen wearing a robe and wielding a staff.

Personality
Priestess’ personality consists of being a young, kind, and a generally helpful person. She is always noted by others to be frail and delicate-looking, and is rather prone to shedding tears and going red-faced when troubled. Which happens often, including whenever Goblin Slayer is being callous. Still, she can and does maintain her assertiveness while tearing up all the same.

Occasionally, she has shown confusion and anxiety over the way her miracles were being used under the instructions of Goblin Slayer, who make full use of it effectiveness in brutal tactics. This only gets worse when she returns to the temple and receives more miracles, making her wonder why the merciful Earth Mother would grant her these protective miracles if they were being used in such a contradiction manner.

Priestess is a kind fellow and has no problems making new friends, although she can get rather shy at first.

Background
Priestess was an orphan who was raised in a temple into the priesthood along with other orphans. Since coming of age, she decided to leave the Temple and help adventurers in need.

Goblin Slayer Volume 1
Priestess first appears as a brand new Porcelain rank adventurer. She agreed to join three other newbies in eradicating a goblin nest. After her first goblin hunt rapidly goes downhill, she is saved by Goblin Slayer and joins him on his quests. Despite the events of her first job, she still wishes to be an adventurer and helps her party however she can. As she fights alongside Goblin Slayer throughout the story, she learns how to use miracles alternatively, gains new miracles, and increases her survivability under his tutorage. As a result, she has been promoted to Obsidian rank.

Abilities
Priestess possesses defensive and support miracles from the Temple. She has been noted as having more miracles than those her age. Travelling with Goblin Slayer has also shown her unconventional ways of using her miracles, allowing her to be a more useful ally in combat. As of Volume 7, she possesses 5 miracles: Minor Heal, Protection, Silence, Holy Light, and the newly learned Purify.

Miracles

 * Holy Light「聖光 (ホーリーライト) Seikō (Hōrīraito)」
 * Minor Heal「小癒 (ヒール) Koyu (Hīru)」
 * Protection「聖壁 (プロテクション) Seiheki (Purotekushon)」
 * Purify「浄化 (ピュアリファイ) Jōka (Pyuarifai)」
 * Silence「沈黙 (サイレンス) Chinmoku (Sairensu)」

Equipment

 * Sounding Staff
 * Chainmail Armor

Trivia

 * Priestess is currently the only character shown to have received a promotion.