Doomsday and I were talking about the healers/mage/priestesses and what we though we might want out of their abilities and why they are chaste.  Here's what we came up with.<br/><br/>Healing is done two different ways.  The first is through a natural means such as herbs and good old common sense care.  The second is an ability to heal through magic.  Some healers are strictly natural healing, others strictly magical healing and other, more rarely have the talent for both.<br/><br/>The mages have a magical talent that has nothing to do with healing.  It can be the ability to call fire or telekinesis or prophecy...<br/><br/>Both of these would, if they were lovely enough, be brought into the order and become priestesses.  They could only be brought in while still pure and they would take/be forced to take a vow of chastity.<br/><br/>Here's the kicker and the reason for the vow of chastity.  Once they lose their purity their magical abilities are<strong>greatly</strong>reduced and for most become non-existent.  So, after being raped almost none of the priestesses would have any magical ability at all and the few that still had it would only have an extremely weakened version.<br/><br/>Does that sound feasible?