The Lesser Chosen
The Lesser Chosen constitute four fifths of the Chosen: all who are below blood-rank 1—that is, those whose blood-taint has no zero in the first position
God Emperor taint scar
A child fathered by a God Emperor has its mother’s taint placed on the right and the left is left unscarred to indicate the untainted blood of the father. This reversal is a result of the belief that a God Emperor is possessed of a sinistral nature associated with the darker aspects of the Twin Gods.
Chosen Family Trees
All about Chosen family trees and how to read them.
Carnelian’s Blood Taint
The details of Carnelian’s blood taint—the purity of his blood
Calculating Blood Taints
A child’s Blood-Taint is calculated by averaging the blood-taints of its parents
Blood
The Chosen believe that it is their blood that sets them apart from other beings. It is in their blood that their semi-divinity resides, derived ultimately from descent—however partial—from a God Emperor. The Chosen believe that, at his Apotheosis, a new God Emperor receives the ‘essence’ of the Twin Gods, transmuting his mortal blood into pure ichor: the divine, burning blood. A child fathered by a God Emperor receives the gift of this ichor intermixed with the blood of its mother.
my nephew’s tattoo
my nephew’s stonedance tattoo…