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The ALICEAlicist Church, more commonly known as the AL ChurchAlicism, is home for the largest religion in the Continent. Founded long ago during the SS Era, in the old days of humanity, it had the same function as you can expect of a church. As such, their goal is to guide humanity to happiness and salvation, accompanying them all the way to the afterlife, while forbidding sex and alcohol.
 
It is also a non-profit organization, but makes it up by getting massive donations from followers since they are the most prominent religion, and even own a private army, mainly made of Temple Knights. Finally, the church is located in the remote island of Kawanakajima, located in a river between Zeth and the Free Cities. Most of their members are Priests and Bishops, with the main criteria of selection requiring to have some form of Divine Magic abilities, ruled by the Pope, absolute leader of the Church and acting as the goddess ALICE's representative.
 
In fact, the ALAlicist Church mainly serves as a means to manipulate human society, in order to satisfy the Gods' thirst for entertainment and chaos, with ALICE serving as a direct intermediate between the Pope and the Creator God Rudrathaum himself. Every Pope is made aware of this during their appointment, making them yet another pawn in the Gods' Hierarchy despite having the best interests of humanity at heart.
 
== In General ==
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=== 1st Class Goddess ALICE ===
The goddess worshipped by the ALAlicist Church. Her job is to guide humanity in the way the gods desire it... which usually means creating chaos and conflict while posing as a benevolent and loving deity. She is highly secretive and will only reveal herself to the Pope of the ALAlicist Church.
 
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=== Crook Mofus ===
The current Pope of the ALAlicist Church, Crook is a silent but very smart girl with a vast knowledge of the world, knowing most of the current lore of the Continent. Her goal is to search for Balance Breakers around the world to seal them, and later joins Rance during her time as a bishop in ''[[Rance Quest]]'' due to his unusual demeanor and his tendency to attract other Balance Breakers, eventually falling in love with him along the way. As a Pope, she boasts a unique Lv3 Skill in Divine Magic, making her one of the most powerful people able to heal, purify, and remove curses seamlessly.
 
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=== Duran Teyuran ===
The former Pope of the ALAlicist Church, who dies shortly before the beginning of ''[[Rance Quest]]''. Eventually revealed to be Crook's father.
 
Plays a larger role in ''[[Kichikuou Rance]]'', where he remains the Pope and opposes Rance's conquest.
 
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*[[Sinister Minister]]: While he's not shown doing much explicitly evil in ''Kichikuou Rance'', his actions are not very in line with the ALAlicist Church. The Angel Knight Leda ultimately strikes him down for betraying the Church's aims, and he is posthumously revealed to have been stealing from the Church's treasury.
*[[These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]]: He claimed to have books of prophecy that predicted everything happening on the Continent, but never showed them or their contents to anyone, citing this trope.
*[[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: In the canon timeline, the first time he's mentioned is in his obituary, and what little is known of him is secondhand.
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*[[Arch Enemy]]: To Crook Mofus.
*[[Big Bad]]: Of ''[[Rance Quest|Rance Quest Magnum]]''.
*[[Broken Pedestal]]: The ALAlicist Church.
*[[Complexity Addiction]]: As revealed in ''Rance X: Part 2'', Crook achieved the result Am wished for all these years simply by using her Pope's wish to make Rudrathaum live a life among humans and teach him compassion.
*[[Dark Messiah]]: Appears as one through ''Rance Quest Magnum'', being the leader of the Shepherds.
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*[[Talking Your Way Out]]: How she manages to escape her prison: by convincing Rance and his party to free her.
*[[Took a Level in Kindness]]: Exploited. She convinces Rance and his party to free by giving herself the role of the martyr. It works, despite Crook's protests.
*[[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Following her defeat at the end of Rance Quest, she is sealed by the ALAlicist Church. Rance can free her during the events of ''Rance X'' when the Fiend Extermination Squad drive the monsters away from Kawanakajima.
*[[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]]: Leans heavily towards Cynicism compared to her successor Crook, as learning the truth of the Planner Scenario made her fall into despair, and gave her the idea of polluting Souls to indirectly destroy Rudrathaum, since he cannot be appeased with anything other than suffering.
*[[Stepford Smiler]]: Despite always seen smiling, she harbors 100% of Soul Pollution, meaning she's one of the most depressed humans alive.
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=== Mi Lordring ===
A very passionate individual met by Rance a couple of times across the series. He chronologically appears in ''Rance 01'' and ''03'' as a priest of the ALAlicist Church, sometimes appearing in dungeons to heal Rance and his group, and participates in the 7th Helman-Leazas War.
 
He then came back much later in ''Rance Quest'' as a Bishop, and eventually serves under the new Pope Crook Mofus.
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*[[Combat Medic]]: He's just as skilled at healing as he is in combat, and will frequently heal Rance's party when they meet in early games.
*[[Companion Cube]]: He carries a doll of ALICE around everywhere he goes, and seems to believe ALICE herself is speaking to him through it (she's not). This despite Lordring himself speaking for the doll, leading him to have ventriloquist conversations with himself over what ALICE would want him to do.
*[[Good Shepherd]]: He's entirely oblivious to the dark side of the ALAlicist Church and wholeheartedly believes in helping people and doing good.
*[[Hot-Blooded|Hot Blooded:]] He is... intense. He's constantly running from place to place, and screams almost all of his lines at the top of his lungs. After becoming a Bishop, his entourage of Temple Knights is frequently seen run ragged trying to keep up with him.
 
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=== Oz Tortoise ===
One of the four Bishops of the ALAlicist Church, and during the time of ''Rance Quest'', the favorite to become the next Pope. While he presents a kindly and reasonable face to the public, he's actually cut-throat and ruthless, obsessed with his own power.
 
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=== Roule Enron ===
One of the four Bishops of the ALAlicist Church. An extremely elderly man who is obsessed with becoming Pope.
 
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=== Elisabeth Des ===
A priestess of the ALAlicist Church who only appears in ''[[Kichikuou Rance]]''. She is given to Rance as a gesture of goodwill by the Church.
 
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