Blood-Sin

The Blood-Sin , also known as Rood Inverse, is a tattoo of great power in Vagrant Story.
==Story==
The Blood-Sin, or Rood Inverse, is the inverted form of the Kildean Rood. In its Kildean form, it was born as a tattoo by the priestess Müllenkamp.
The Iocus priesthood also used the rood as their holy symbol. During the inquisitions led by the priesthood, they would brand heretics with the rood turned inverse (the "blade" facing down), and this symbol came to be known as the Blood-Sin.
Even after the destruction of Leá Monde, Mullenkamp's legacy lived on in the form of the "Key" to Leá Monde's power, granting control over the Dark. The Blood-Sin was the physical symbol of this key.
The Blood-Sin key to Leá Monde passed through the family of Duke Bardorba. Sydney Losstarot, the Duke's son, holds the Blood-Sin, his goal to pass it off to another who will not abuse its Dark powers. Both Jan Rosencrantz and Romeo Guildenstern desire the power of the Dark, and search for "the Key" not knowing it is the tattoo. Upon discovering this, Guildenstern tears the tattoo off Sydney's back to obtain the power of Darkness, though he only bears it for a short time. In the end, both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, and the powers pass to Ashley Riot, a Riskbreaker with no love for the Dark. He becomes a vagrant, and never uses its power for evil.
==Other appearances==
===Final Fantasy XII===
The Blood-Sin is in the background when the player summons, though the summon transition was removed in The Zodiac Age. It is signed by Gabranth in his first major appearance, and an identical Blood-Sin mark to the infamous tattoo from Vagrant Story appears on the skull of the shamaness during Zalera's spell "Death Wail". It also engraved onto the top half of the Shell Shield.
ShellShield-ffxii.png|Shell Shield.
Death Zalera.JPG|Shamaness in Zalera's Death Wail.
===Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift===
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The cover of the Grimoire of the Rift tome may be intended to resemble the Blood-Sin.
==Merchandise==
The official Vagrant Story Zippo lighter depicts the Blood-Sin.
== Gallery ==
VS Sydney Blood-Sin.png|Sydney's Blood-Sin tattoo.
VagrantStory-HolyWin.png|The Holy Win in the shape of the Iocus Rood.
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