[center][b][u]The Church and Saints[/u][/b][/center]

The Catholic Church has, ever since its inception, deployed a variety of methods in combating the supernatural. While in recent times their views have mellowed to irritated toleration of the non-violent demonic and vampiric, and active partnership with some magi, they still house the famed Exorcist Corps. An organization composed of exorcists wielding weapons blessed by the Church's Last Resort, Saint Alessa, they are trained in the art of removing malevolent spirits from objects and people, and in the methods required to slay demons and vampires. The most skilled members of the Exorcist Corps, people who are so incredibly skilled at slaying enemies of the Church that the title of Exorcist is simply not enough, are known as High Executors. Even with these demonslayers, the Church has entirely given up on slaying the Seven Princes of Hell, as it was eventually regarded as a fool's errand.

The Church's views on magic have expanded in recent times, but an old ruling prevents teens and adults working for the Church from learning it. As such, they utilize a loophole that involves recruiting children as members of the Church and training them in magic. One location of this is a convent in England.

Saints are those blessed by a god(or gods) from birth. Of course, there are a myriad of different religions, and each religion holds its own form of Saints. The Shinto Saint Morikawa Ruriko, for example, is as much of a Saint as any other. They are rare in these times, however, and there remain only a handful of them left. Catholic Saints number on one hand. A Saint is granted an item, some form of object that only a Saint can wield, called a Saint's Tool. These pinnacles of divinity are only capable of being used by someone blessed in such a manner. They include the Dragon Slaughter Ascalon, the Spear of Longinus, and Saint Alessa's very body. These unchanging items(or in Alessa's case, her unchanging body) cannot be damaged by anything unable to overpower their divinity, and possess incredible strength. Someone who is not a Saint cannot hope to wield one, and may even be killed attempting to do so.