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Brand of Sacrifice
"You have now been marked with the Brand of Sacrifice. The lives of those who bear the Brand, from the last drop of blood, to the last moment of your agonizing death, will feed life to the new Child of Darkness."
– Void, to the branded Band of the Falcon
The Brand of Sacrifice (生贄の焼印 Ikenie no Yakīn?) marks those for the Invocation of Doom, a sacrificial ceremony in which those consecrated by the laws of causality trascend their humanity[1], resulting in the creation of an apostle[1] or God Hand[2], as well as severing an apostle's last ties to humanity.[1]
The lives of the sacrificed, someone close and important to the summoner, are then offered to creatures of the darkness[3][4] and ritualistically murdered.[1][3] At least in the case of God Hand members, the deceased's life force is used to complete the summoner's transition.[3]
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