Exemplar

"Loathing made manifest!"

The Exemplar is a Cultist miniboss in Darkest Dungeon II.

Enemy Description
The Exemplar is a miniboss which can only spawn under two circumstances. The most common one being that an Exemplar is guaranteed to spawn at the Oblivion's Rampart in region 3. The second way for an Exemplar to spawn is that the Exemplar is guaranteed to replace the normal enemies that would appear in any road battle should the player have 5 Loathing.

The Exemplar functions as a gatekeeper, either ensuring that the player is capable of disposing of strong enemies before they reach The Mountain, or punishing the player for failing to mitigate Loathing. It attacks with highly damaging attacks that can target multiple Heroes, inflict high amounts of blight, apply debuffs or stress and apply horror to player heroes.

The Exemplar also starts the fight with a random size 1 Cultist enemy alongside it, and will periodically kill and resummon its' allies over the course of battle, applying self buffs in the process.

Combat Skills
The Exemplar has numerous fearsome attacks in its arsenal, but the most powerful of which is his "Exultation", a highly damaging cleave attack which requires him to have 2 "Worship" tokens in order to use and resummons a Cultist minion if there is empty space present on the enemy side. He can generate Worship throughout the fight by either sacrificing his allied minion, or orchestrating "The Fall", an attack useable only on comboed heroes. If there are no combo tokens present on the player side and it cannot use Exultation, Exemplar can use "Prelude" or "Rapturous Beauty" in addition to "Pillar of Sacrifice".