1/ Both the Coldblooded and the City military practiced their initiation rituals. Among the former, an incision would be made in six strokes on the new adept’s left forearm by the most skillful local swordsman.
2/ The incision would heal leaving a lifelong scar that resembled a mirrored uppercase letter sigma half-doubled along the long axis.
3/ It was said that, should a Coldblooded betray their kind, the scar would open, and the traiter would die of unstoppable bleeding that could not be fixed even with surgery.
4/ Among the City military, a peculiar tattoo shaped like a spiral with a lightning bolt on its free end would be placed on the recruit’s right shoulder.
5/ Additionally, upon birth in the City every baby received a circular tattoo on their left wrist that contained a code that could only be read with special devices only Annennare possessed.
6/ The Citizen tattoo encoded an enormous amount of information about them that updated throughout their life.
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