![[12SaintsN5C.png | 350]] *Twelve Saints #5 cover by Paracelsus.* ***Prodigal Daughter*** is the fifth issue of the *Twelve Saints* comic series. ## Quick Facts --- | Credits | ![[12SaintsN5P0.png \| 400]] | | -------- | ---------------------------- | | Title | Prodigal Daughter | | Pages | 20 | | Arc | Apostle Exams | | Next | [[Twelve Saints No. 6]] | | Previous | [[Twelve Saints No. 4]] | ## Summary --- [[Decapre]] is healed by a [[Green Bishops|Green Bishop]] in a locker room of the arena, and is joined by [[Maxine Faraday]], surprising her. [[Curie]] and [[William Sterling]] discuss the semi-final duels on the roof, now nighttime. Curie explains how [[Zeila Newton]] was able to defeat Maxine, at the same time as the Saints also discuss the matter. As Newton and Charre begin their duel, Zeila is able to use *System*, a Transelman martial art, to injure Tini's shoulder: leaving her unable to throw magma pellets to keep the fight a ranged battle to her advantage. Zeila regains the initiative, coming close to forcing another submission, but Tini produces a large fire technique that Zeila mysteriously nullifies. Close to her limit, Zeila is asked to surrender, but she hesitates. Tini raises her hand to strike a lethal blow, but is restrained by [[René Adelaide]], [[Yvette Bissouma]] and [[Jara Dumfries]] almost instantaneously. Before she can be disqualified, Zeila finally comes clean about why she didn't use the flux in the fight, not wanting to reveal her control of gravity fearing it would bar her from entry into the [[Church of Light (Transelmany)]]. Zeila then yields, making the still-restrained Tini the winner of the 24th Apostle Exams. ## Datapage --- ![[12SaintsN5P10d.png | 350]] ### DECLASSIFIED INFORMATION: ENTRY 14: TRANSELMAN APOSTLES `THE TRANSELMAN CHURCH OF SAINTS WAS OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHED BY THE` `TREATY OF HAAL. HOWEVER, IT WOULD NOT ACTUALLY BEGIN OPERATIONS` `UNTIL AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE TRANSELMAN CIVIL WAR, WHEN ALL OF` `THE COUNTRY'S TERRITORY HAD COME UNDER THE CONTROL OF YEMISI'S` `VOROMIRAKA: AT WHICH POINT THE COMBAT FORCES FROM ALL THREE` `WARRING FACTIONS WERE THEN UNIFIED INTO ONE VANGUARD AS THE` `TRANSELMAN CHURCH.` `TODAY, THE CHURCH IS COMPOSED NOT OF WARTIME SOLDIERS BUT` `APOSTLES; CHIEFLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE REGIONAL CHURCHES THAT` `GOVERN EACH OF THE TWELVE DIOCESES IN THE COUNTRY, BUT FORMALLY` `ANSWERABLE TO THE TRANSELMAN COUNCIL OF SAINTS AS A COLLECTIVE.` `TRANSELMANY'S DIVISION INTO TWELVE DIOCESES IS A MATTER OF` `GEOGRAPHIC PRACTICALITY, BUT ULTIMATE AUTHORITY IS VESTED IN THE` `CENTRAL COUNCIL ITSELF. THE TERM 'APOSTLE' IS BOTH THE GENERAL NAME` `FOR ALL AFFILIATED MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH, AS WELL AS THE SPECIFIC` `NAME FOR ITS LOWEST-RANKING AGENTS.` `EVERY APOSTLE IN THE CHURCH IS GRANTED A MONTHLY STIPEND, RISING` `MODESTLY IN ACCODANCE WITH THEIR RANK, IN ADDITION TO AN APARTMENT` `WITHIN THE HEADQUARTERS OF THEIR DIOCESE. UPON REACHING ADULTHOOD` `(AGED 17) THEY MAY ALSO CHOOSE TO OBTAIN ALTERNATIVE` `ACCOMMODATION OUTSIDE THE HEADQUARTERS, IN THE FORM OF A STATE-` `SUBSIDIZED HOUSING UNIT THAT EVERY TRANSELMAN CITIZEN IS ENTITLED TO.` `RANKS IN THE TRANSELMAN CHURCH OF SAINTS` `RANK - TITLE - STIPEND` `EXALTED - SAINT - 2000 TKR` `RANK I - ARCHBISHOP - 1800 TKR` `RANK II - ARCHDEACON - 1800 TKR` `RANK III - BISHOP - 1400 TKR` `RANK IV - DEACON - 1400 TKR` `RANK V - VICAR - 1200 TKR` `ANOINTED - APOSTLE - 1000 TKR` `THE AVERAGE MONTHLY COMPENSATION FOR A TRANSELMAN APOSTLE IS` `1380 TRANSELMAN KARATS. ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT TO 15 ROYAL ELMAN` `KARATS. THIS COMPENSATION IS GENERALLY IN LINE WITH WHAT WORKERS IN` `OTHER FIELDS CAN EXPECT; VARYING WITH EXPERIENCE AND PEDIGREE, OR` `SOMETIMES LACK THEREOF, GIVEN THAT EMPLOYMENT IN ADULTHOOD IS` `COMPULSORY.` ## Characters (in order of appearance) --- - [[Decapre]] - [[Maxine Faraday]] - [[Curie]] - [[William Sterling]] - [[Gordon Alastair]] - [[Andrea Tommasi]] - [[Juno Soleil]] - [[Alice d'Arnaud]] - [[Yvette Bissouma]] - [[Isaac]] - [[Zeila Newton]] - [[Tini Charre]] - [[Juno Soleil]] - [[Lucia Pao]] - [[Temi Fayowa]] - [[Kristof Nikola]] - [[Tiana Früde]] - [[René Adelaide]] - [[Jara Dumfries]]