The central theme of all The Clerics’ Tales remains the same: someone, usually a general, political ally or son of a wealthy family, is granted by the Monarch an appointment to a religious post. That individual then sets to travel to his new domain, with dreams of wealth and power only to discover, once ensconced, that his flock is a disorganized, apathetic, faithless and unhygienic lot, prone to an easy gullibility, and, a susceptibility to all things superstitious in nature. Even worse of course, in the cleric’s eyes, is their state of utter poverty. How the cleric then attempts to reform and squeeze the yokels, and how the yokels defeat all his attempts—well, those are the tales.
