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The '''sigil''' is the physical symbol of a free person's [[The Oathbond|Oathbond]]. It is usually worn as a necklace or ring, or carried as a tattoo. The Oathbond should be honored whether or not a sigil is worn, but those who have one hold it very dear.

== Design ==
The family emblem sits at the center. The color or background signals the wearer's city; the accent signals their station. There is no element representing the self — that is simply who the wearer is.

== Placement ==
The neck and nape are never used for a sigil tattoo. That area is reserved for the half-circle mark of a slave, and no free person of any city would wear any tattoo there. See [[Slavery]].

== Loss and insult ==
To lose or damage one's own sigil is a grave misfortune. To steal or destroy another's is a grave insult — one of the few that will almost certainly end in a ''[[Lexicon:Modern/caeshmae|caeshmae]]'' (see [[The Duel]]).

== At death ==
A sigil is usually buried with its owner or ritually destroyed. In [[Eldershore]], the sigils of high-ranking members of a line are often enshrined as relics.

== See also ==

* [[The Oathbond]]
* [[Slavery]] — the marks that replace it