Mortification

A rather scary name for the disciplining of the flesh, Mortification involves any practice that requires a person either denying their body creature comforts or, in a more extreme fashion, intentionally putting themselves through torture in order to toughen their constitution. Mortification is quite common among the Ecclesiastical Orders, and is fairly common among the Military Orders. 
Technically, any Adept who is an athlete also practices a light form of Mortification, since the process of exercising and honing one's skills involves forcing the body to toughen up and increase muscle mass. 
Ecclesiastical Mortification has historically been about disciplining the body's sense of creature comforts.
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