At the start of the cut it hurts, but then it feels less and less and in the end nothing at all. This rote is used by the Verbena to fill their victims with unquenchable sexual desires, either directed at the mage or somebody else. This marking will be passed on to the children, and so on. Sometimes this marking is bound to a special trait. The mark can be read by Life 1.
Different markings have different meanings, and are used to keep track of certain traits.
Mages have also found that there exist other markings in several bloodlines, which they have not put there. Some believe that there must have been other mages doing the same thing as they in the past. While the Vikings regarded poison as foul, some of the modern asa-mages use it in the defence of their homes and traditions. By boiling together a foul mixture of blood, salt, yeast, earth, iron, ice and some drops of snake venom under invocations of the powers of death, they create a potent and untraceable poison. The poison can be applied in food or drink, placed on weapons or even on surfaces.