Tradition of the Sacrifice

The Tradition of the Sacrifice, or The Sacrifice, is a practice created by the people of Lantimor to symbolically protest the God King's rule. This tradition involves the cultivation of a hidden bloodline of warriors where generation after generation sons, just as their fathers did, are sent off to face the God King. Traditionally, each Sacrifice trains for roughly two decades before he sires a child and a celebration heralds their departure to the Temple of Lantimor to fulfill their generational task. After his inevitable failure, the Sacrifice's body is dumped outside of the temple to be buried by villagers chosen from the surrounding area. The armor is striped from the body and sent to be inherited by the next sacrifice.
This tradition, however, is not as it appears. As revealed in Infinity Blade Awakening, this practice was actually started by the God King himself who sought out a means to "charge" the Infinity Blade and, as Siris theorizes, found what he thought was a Deathless bloodline. It was also revealed that the bloodline was not in fact comprised of new warriors, but rather, incarnations of Ausar, whose death and rebirth as an infant was facilitated by TEL. Death by the Infinity Blade triggered the modification made by the Redeemer and caused Ausar to be reborn as an infant with no memories. TEL would then take this infant to a young woman to be raised as the new Sacrifice, changing her memories and making her move towns as needed. 
===Notable Sacrifices===
*The Ancestor is the first known Sacrifice who challenges the God King, and is the first character seen in the Infinity Blade Universe, during the prologue/tutorial of Infinity Blade I.
*Archarin is a Sacrifice who accepts the God King's Offer to join him. Unlike the other Sacrifices, he was not a reborn version of Ausar, but rather a descendant of him during a generation in which he refused to face the God King. After accepting the Offer, Archarin became an Immortal, and served the God King as Zero Mech until he was defeated by Siris.
*Siris is the final Sacrifice, and the only to successfully defeat the God King and take possession the The Infinity Blade.
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