Marks

**Marks** are luminescent mandalas that appear on the body. There are two types of marks.

The dark mark appears when you have committed the ultimate selfish taboo in buddhism, murder of others of oneself. Those who have obtained a dark mark have followed the Left-hand path and are branded as untouchables. The light mark appears when you have committed the ultimate selfless act, such as sacrificing your own life or the life one one you love for, what you believe to be, the greater good. Those who have obtained a light mark have followed the Right-hand path, and are believed in paragon to have obtained enlightenment, a misconception spawning from the death of the first Dalai Lama.

Marks widens your access point to the ocean of power (breaking a person’s magic valve), making it more likely for you to give into to temptation and continue down the wrong path. For every additional use of spiritual power for selfish/selflessness the rift gets larger and causes more opportunity for spiritual death. In releasing magic with a mark you are releasing more than a human is able to control. Non-magic users, still receive Marks, but because of their lack of spirituality (lack of magic) they’re deaths progress normally. You must fulfill both intention and result in order to gain a mark.

## Origin

The Buddha created the marks as a way to ensure anyone acting too selfishly or selflessly would die and reincarnate. They were his philosophy and my reaching nirvana and becoming one with the universe his ability to connect with the world became possible for everyone.

The marks were first formed on the Buddha, where he had one on each hand. All statues of the Buddha retain this feature.

The light mark was secondly earned by the original Dalai Lama when he sacrificed his life. Because it was earned by a religious leader it was seen as a mark of enlightenment. Those with a light mark believe they are slowly dying to escape samsara.

The dark mark was secondly earned by Judas when he killed the original Lama, thus becoming the worst taboo. Those with a dark mark are seen as cursed, and are dying because of it.

## Appearance

Marks start at your awakened chakra as the origin of the symbol. As you consume more power, scripture grows, writing itself from the origin until it consumes your entire body. The writing growing is indicative of your gage widening. Once the gage has widened past your point of maintaining it, the text begins to move, spiraling as the magical energy overtakes and kills you. Similarly, you can achieve this immediately by overusing your magic with a mark. The scripture movement follows your bodies energy flow. Every time you use the power the mark glows, as does the scripture flowing from it

Marks still appear on someone regardless of whether they’re alive or not. It is just an aspect of the universe that one who commits these acts will get the resulting mark, even though it no longer affects the spirit

## Cultural

Wu Wang Guo’s lack of spirituality and respect for Marks leads to their not being affected by marks

## Organs

The villains act as a vessel for the organs. It ultimately overpowers and kills. Their mark is a hole to soup, forms a passageway.