Editing Harbinger (section)

=== The Mark ===
The Harbinger tends to bear an outward expression of the greater power’s influence on them.  The fine details can differ, depending on the nature of the mark - for some powers, it may be more ragged, for others, it could be elegant. The mark is generally "unleashed" to transform the Harbinger by tearing it open, removing or reversing the bindings, magically growing to cover them etc.  

Some examples are:
*A Branding - a burn, scar, glowing crack in skin, etc. Often modifies their transformation into one with more puissance or physical prowess.
*A Blemish - a small mutation or physical abnormality. Tends to offer a bit of flexibility or mobility to their transformation.
*A Token - a non-removable item. Often allows faster transformations and/or a physical augmentation.
*A Tattoo - a symbolic tattoo related to the power. Often offers more accuracy and awareness to their transformation and more aesthetically pleasing forms.
*A Window - a hole in their skin to somewhere else. Less prone to spreading, and tends to represent and grant magical knowledge.
*A Heart - engorged veins, maybe connected to an organ or tumor. Often results in hardiness and longer life, whether through efficient use of magical resources, durability in human or transformed form, resurrection powers etc.<ref name=":0">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D2a5G4HIXm1ettBF904jwS6vZVpm2i6pWL21z-69sJY/edit#heading=h.ma8072p4xqh6 Pact Dice: Harbinger]</ref>
Most Harbingers [[Bind]] their Mark to help deal with it. This may involve marking one's flesh in a pattern around the Mark, taking drugs or poisons to inhibit it, binding the affected part with chain, feeding the Mark to placate it, etc etc.<ref>The mark is generally bound.  This is typically up to the practitioner, and the means of binding can include burning one’s own flesh, injections of poison or other drugs, chains bound around the body, tattoos, cutting/stitching or feeding the mark.  These correspond roughly to their equivalents named above and are mostly flavor, though they may impact the transformation to some degree, as well as the parameters of any practice they perform that uses or relates to the mark. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D2a5G4HIXm1ettBF904jwS6vZVpm2i6pWL21z-69sJY/edit#heading=h.ma8072p4xqh6 Pact Dice: Harbinger]</ref>