Ladybird
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It's the sort of odd restriction that relies on your deity being very very hung up on the letter rather than the spirit of their commands. Speaking personally, if an eternity upstairs or downstairs is at stake, I'd err on the side of caution. It's a good job that there's no such creature which delights in such games of trickery and wordplay, right?Yeah, this was entirely from apocryphal stories of Bishop Odo of Bayeux wielding a club-like mace at the Battle of Hastings in the Bayeux Tapestry, the idea being that he did so to avoid either "shedding blood or bearing the arms of war", which priests were forbidden to do by the Church.
I quite liked 4e's solution, which was to just give them laser beams instead.