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The sudden urge to pray sweeps over you … but in your current state, you do not feel worthy. No, before you can pray, you need to atone. But with transgressions as serious as yours, you are not going to be able to confess your sins to anyone, nor will some paltry act of penance balance the scales. No, you are going to need to swear an Oath, on the sanctity of your soul, to the Patternmaker Himself. But what do you swear?
>Please choose ONE of the following:
>Balancing the Scales. You swear out an Oath to bring four peace to four murdered souls by bringing four different murderers to justice, one for each of the lives that you took. Getting involved in the law might be dangerous, considering your legal status, but of the Oaths that you can think of tonight, this is the most flexible.
>An Early, Semi-Retirement. You swear out an Oath to never desecrate the body of anyone who has been born into to the Covenant again, nor will you steal from their graves. More so, whatever excess wealth you accumulate going forward, you will spend on living oblations to be burn on the behalf of those whose bodies and graves you have already defiled. You will do this until you have burnt four oblations for every single body, which works out to be something like four hundred of them. [Note: this Oath does not extend to the bodies or to the graves of anyone not born into the Covenant]
>Suspicious Service. You swear out an Oath to use your skills at healing to help all those who come to you for aid, for at least the next four years, one for each life you took. You will turn no one away that you are able to help, regardless of if they cannot pay, or if their affliction is dangerous to you, nor will you charge anyone more than the material cost for your work. The whole ‘woman, living by herself, working as an unaffiliated healer’ thing really screams Witch, but the Inquisition’s reach and knowledge is not absolute. If you keep your head down, you should be able to make it work.
>Shooting Star. You swear out an Oath to become an Idoloclast, a religious adventurer also known as a Shooting Star. You, either by yourself or with other like-minded individuals, will venture into the lands of the Cimmaroons, where you will search for four different Great Idols, one for each life you took. To be considered a Great Idol, it has to be a significant font of worship for a pagan faith. By whatever means you can, you will take them, and haul them back to the Principalities, where you will give them to a Temple as an oblation.
Note: None of these Oaths are time sensitive. So long as Chlotsuintha is making a good faith effort to work toward completion of her chosen Oath, she will not have forsworn herself. These Oaths are long term affairs, something to be done in addition to learning and developing magic, not instead of.
