Enki Ankarian

The Dark Priest is a playable character from the game "Fear and Hunger".

Attributes
The Dark Priest starts with a short sword (+10 Attack) and high priest's robe (+5 Defense) equipped. He has the enlightened soul and starts with the Counter-magic spell, which can disrupt various types of lesser magic. He can later learn Greater Blood Magic, which allows him to use some upgraded versions of blood magic spells.

Every character can learn magic, but the Dark Priest's introduction allows him to start with several different powerful spells. The player's reaction to the Dark Priest's ceremonial duel in the introduction determines what spells he starts with. He has access to very powerful magic, but sub-par melee ability; they start with relatively poor equipment, and cannot wield two-handed weapons.
 * The choice to backstab the winner gives the Dark Priest the Necromancy spell. This spell allows him to raise skeletons and ghouls from the dead.
 * The choice to accept defeat gives the Dark Priest the Mastery over Insects ability. The player can then choose to lash out at the temple, getting Pyromancy Trick, a powerful magical attack spell, or move on, receiving a copy of Alchemilia vol. 1.

Tips & Strategy
The Dark Priest has the potential to become very powerful using magic, but they begin with very little melee ability. Their starting magic can help increase their survivability in two ways:
 * 1) Necromancy: More allies. Necromancy allows you to raise ghouls and skeletons to fight for you. Ghouls are relatively weak and can't wear equipment, but skeletons can use weapons and armor just as well as you. Their attacks can't be controlled, but they're still effective in combat.
 * 2) * Undead are disposable. They can be sacrificed to Gro-goroth, create a Marriage to make the Dark Priest physically stronger/increase affinity with Sylvian, and take heavy damage without too much worry. This is even more true for you because of Counter-magic; you can defeat ghouls and unruly skeletons using counter-magic, taking the risk of physical harm out of the equation.
 * 3) Pyromancy trick: This spell, like most offense spells, can attack any part of the body with the same accuracy. That means that for 5 Mind, you can deal 170-200 damage directly to the head and kill most of the enemies in the basic dungeon within the first turn.

These starting magics should make you powerful enough to progress through the dungeon, where you can find soul stones to increase your magical power and human allies that can be controlled in combat and carry two-handed weapons. The upper tier of magical power provides greater, but also more unique benefits:
 * Blood magic will provide you with increasingly powerful damage-dealing spells. Greater blood magic will increase the efficiency and power of multiple lower-level blood magic: Greater Hurting costs less, Greater Necromancy will never fail to work, and Great Blood Golem will be a much stronger ally.
 * Sylvian's magic will allow you to heal your party, which can be difficult to accomplish otherwise. You can also create a demon child, a weak but controllable ally with similar power to the human child.

God Affinities
It's not enough to use lesser souls to gain more powerful spells; each of the spells belongs to a different old god, and you must raise your affinity with them through prayer or acts done in their name to get access to their magic.

The dungeon provides multiple easy opportunities to increase the player's affinity with the three old gods. A player who choose Dark Priest can take advantage of their starting abilities to completely max out affinity with all three Gods, as well as the God of the Depths, at no cost to themselves. They can take advantage of the following opportunities to accomplish this:
 * Your introduction allows you to select a god to study, maxing out your affinity with them. Gro-goroth is ideal for this because he has three tier of affinity, but one cannot max out affinity with God of the Depths as a Dark Priest, since one of his tasks involves killing the Dark Priest to make a home for insects.
 * Sex in the bunny meadow will increase affinity with Sylvian in addition to healing your character. It can be done once risk-free, and will rely on a coin flip afterwards to avoid being stuck there.
 * Feasting on human flesh in the sixth floor of the mines will increase affinity with Gro-goroth in addition to removing your character's hunger. It can be done once risk-free, as above.
 * The inner hall on the first floor features a human sacrifice on a statue, surrounded by priests. You can kill the sacrifice to gain maximum (one) affinity with All-mer.
 * Praying to a single God in three separate locations will increase your affinity, and can some-times grant you magic from their domain. Prayer circles work for this purpose, as do statues in the meadow and cavern. You can pray to Sylvian to gain the second and final level of affinity with them.
 * Mastery over Insects, if selected, will allow you to speak to an insect in the thicket who will tell you how to get to the Cockroach king. Submitting to the Cockroach king and slaying the butterfly-like creature in the courtyard above as he asks will grant you affinity with the God of the Depths.
 * You can still reach the king without Mastery over Insects, but this will be pointless, as he cannot speak to you to give you the tasks.
 * The second task is to kill the Dark Priest, which cannot be done as him. To get full affinity with God of the Depths, you must either study him in the introduction or pick another character and use an empty scroll to learn Mastery over Insects.

Lore
The Dark Priest, known as Enki in-game, was raised in a temple (or in a dark well, depending on his entry). He leaves this place to pursue studies in alchemy, magic, and the older Gods, becoming well-known for his contributions. Enki decides to sacrifice himself at some point, but when he's on the sacrificial statue, he sees a vision of a man that convinces him to come to the dungeons. He's looking for the artifact and to take some of the knowledge and power of the dungeon for himself.

The Dark Priest can found reading each time he's encountered: in the level 1 library, in the chamber by the level 7 ritual circle, and when he leaves the party to read in the grand library in the ancient city. He affirms the value of this place as a source of knowledge and power when spoken to, and generally arrogant and dismissive of the player for not knowing.