Martyr

A practice that dips into the structural and wages practices.

Methodology

They take on various fetters, trammels and curses that allow them power and more.<ref>In writing up alternate Pact Dice practices I put 'martyrdom' as a divine x prices practice.

The premise is that Martyrs don't necessarily have to die for a cause, but they could set one up as a future mark they intend to hit, or they could be propped up that way by others.

In the meantime, though, to be a martyr carries an alternate meaning wherein one suffers and/or draws attention to their own suffering. This could be bearing a literal cross, suffering (potentially self-inflicted) plague/leprosy, or wearing barbed wire wound around flesh, and drawing power through what is essentially an ongoing act of worship and blood sacrifice. It could be a slow act of dying, over decades, with a fair amount of power in the meantime. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref> Diseases have been mentioned as a possibility.

Related Others

• Sacrificial Animals
  • Scapegoats?
• Trussed
• Vestige
• Hag

Known Practitioners

• Gaudette Family (leprous)
  • Livia Gaudette<ref> - Excerpt from In Absentia 21.4</ref>

Trivia

• Martyr literally means witness, in the modern context it means those who sacrifice, selfishly or not, willingly or not for something.
  • This doesn't mean that they're nice people.<ref>“-She probably absorbed it from me too,” Mags said, without flinching.  “Stupid of me.  Selfish.”
    
    “I don’t think it was selfish at all,” I said.  “It was a sacrifice, the blood you gave her, to keep that memory alive.”
    
    “Sacrifices can be selfish,” Mags said. - Excerpt from Mala Fide 10.4</ref>

References

<references/>