One of the things they were responsible for was a sacred fire which they did not allow to go out for over a thousand years (eventually when Christians took over, the Emperor ordered it extinguished and the Vestals to be shut down in 394. The cult of Vesta had a female priesthood known as the the "Vestal Virgins", so any fantasy depiction of a female religious person called a "Vestal", obviously had them in mind. This is just blatantly silly in a game where Hellion hits as hard as Crusader, and even kinda sexist tbh, cramming a female character into a support role with the justification being that she's a woman and not anything. Second, the modern adoption of Vestal for virgins is because the ancient Vestals were virgins. Female crusaders were often excluded from such roles, as their inherent physiology led to lower battle efficiency than men. First, Roma are not the same thing as Romans. I don't think the vestal in this game has anything to do with ancient Roma. Thought nowadays the word has another definition, and stands for a girl who's devoted to keep his virginity, or something along those lines. Originally posted by h0b0king:The Vestals were a special type of priestess devoted to the Roman goddess Vesta - goddess of the hearth, very important to the Romans, they were virgins who tended the scared fire of Vesta in her temple and were considered rather holy and important to Rome's continued existence.
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