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* Joscelin Verreuil from the ''[[Kushiel Dart]]'' series belongs to an order called the Cassiline Brotherhood. Cassiline Brothers train for 10 years to beclome elite bodyguards who serve the royal family. All members swear allegiance to the Precepts of Cassiel which include celibacy.
* In some of the [[Robin Hood]] stories/ballads, Friar Tuck is an accomplished swordsman and archer, and when he isn't he can usually hold his own with his fists or a staff.
* Dragonriders in [[Dragonriders of Pern]]. They are not celibate, and they are not strictly religious, though esprit de corps is intense enough to make it de facto religious. Nor are they strictly warriors as they do not fight sentient beings primarily(the closest counterpart on earth is airtanker pilots during a forest fire). However they have a sort of trans-clan sodality that stands in a social niche much as warrior monks did in Europe. This is especially the case when the biggest threat to Pern is natural disaster while the biggest threat to Europe was invasion or at least the biggest threat they could deal with.
* In the ''[[Emberverse]]'', the Monks of Mt. Angel become this after the Change. Notable in that it is not only a conscious shift from a more traditional monk to Warrior Monk, but that they also [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshade]] it very often.
* ''[[The Acts of Caine]]''
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