Exorcist

Exorcists (対魔士) are a group of people in Tales of Berseria. They fight daemons and seek a way to eliminate them completely.

Description
People who have strong enough resonance and purity of heart become exorcists who defeat daemons, effectively quelling the malevolence they contain. Exorcists also seek Innominat, the Suppressor, and with whose help they could stop the rise of daemons by using the Empyrean's power to suppress humans' emotions, effectively halting the process of their hearts generating the malevolence, although only that last bit of information is only known among top rank exorcists.

History
Exorcists have existed at least for three hundred years prior to Tales of Berseria where among the top exorcists were Claudin Asgard, Melchior Mayvin, and Artorius Collbrande. As the exorcists where quelling daemons, the top rank members where searching for a place where Innominat was sealed, but without success. Ten years prior to the game, during the Scarlet Night at Aball, due to Celica Crowe and her unborn child's sacrifice at the shrine on the village's outskirts, Artorius and Melchior discover that the shrine is a prison for Innominat. The incomplete ritual amplifies humans' resonance resulting in them being able to see daemons and sealing most of malakhim's free will. Seven years later Artorius sacrifices Laphicet Crowe by his request and Innominat is resurrected, resulting in greatly amplifying humans' resonance that results in them being able to see malakhim. As some people had more resonance than the others they were more suitable to forming pacts with malakhim and with their "help" fighting daemons. Artorius, who saved many people from daemon attacks on his way to Loegres following that Scarlet Night, has earned a moniker of "savior". After talking with the royal family of Midgand, revealing the truth about daemons, he was allowed to and formed they Abbey, whose main job was collecting eight types of malevolence to fully awaken Innominat so he could suppress humans' emotions under the guise of quelling daemons.