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a heretical Protestor group that demands all clerics or other magic users able to do so should focus purely on providing shelter, protection, food, and healing to any that need it before and at the exclusion of pretty much any other activity. Their founding document is a pamphlet, titled "The Benevolent Tide of Magic Must Lift All Boats" which is credited to an anonymous but supposedly high-ranking priest from [[Estrabule]] who went upriver shortly after the [[Green Flu]] and observed the collapse of civilization and mass deaths that followed. The priest, referred to only as "The Healer" by adherents, abandoned the Church and dedicated their remaining life only to healing, sheltering, and feeding any remaining groups they found. While their actual name is never disclosed, the biographical detail regarding upper level church politics and the frequent references to Halfling riverboat terminology have led many to suspect the author was the last recorded Hadriarch of Estrabule and South Alexia, a White Hand Boat Halfling named Furly Loosvelt. Loosvelt was recorded as being ordered to go upriver from Estrabule then cross-country to [[Erith]], but never arrived and was officially considered lost during the years of the [[Calamity]]. Followers say the Healer had led a large group of refugees until their death due to a massive horde of zombies but in dying they allowed several hundred refugees to escape. this sort of sacrifice is what they expect from any who have been gifted magical powers. They see magic in general and divine magic specifically as intended to serve the least among all peoples. They welcome any members capable of healing abilities but expect them to do as much healing as they are able to every day. They have been known to kidnap traveling circuit priests, paladins, and even in a highly publicized embarrassment for the Flannary Church a high-ranking Hadriarch just to force them to go days beyond the point of exhaustion healing camps of the sick and feeding hungry refugees before releasing them on the verge of exhaustion death but otherwise unharmed in most cases. Their decentralized and nomadic nature and number of [[Halfling]], [[Druid]], barbarians, and other wide-ranging adherents mean small and scattered members or allies have spread across much of the Mainland though they do not exist anywhere in large numbers.