Avenger

An avenger is an agent of one or more gods who seeks to bring divine wrath unto the enemies of their divine patron. Invested with traditions both ancient and quite often secret, avengers serve as a well-crafted weapon of their deity, finding the enemies of their faith and striking them down. Of all a god's agents they are the most deadly, marked and empowered by rituals of investiture similar, but not identical to those that mark the training of a cleric or paladin.

Culture
Avengers are not a part of every faith or organization. The work of an avenger is, for one thing, abhorrent to pacifists, since, in all but name, avengers are killers working on the behalf of the divine. Similarly, members of their own religion are as likely to view avengers as heretics as champions of the divine or perhaps an unpleasant necessity. As a result, many avenger traditions are so secretive that they are largely forgotten by the unitiated. This is not a problem for avengers, whose methodology requires a degree of focus that makes outside distractions most unwanted. Most avengers are, in fact, trained in monasteries akin to those used by monks.