The Rite of Proving

"You want to join my sorority? Well......you'll have to survive the Rite of Proving first..." -Sorai to the first members of her sorority

## Basics of the Ritual

The Rite of Proving, as Sorai calls it, is an extremely dangerous, cruel, and psychologically harmful hazing ritual meant to humiliate, disown, and traumatize all who participate in it. It requires a total of seven steps, each more harrowing than the last, and meant to build more loyalty to Sorai. They involve drinking, drugs, stripping, torture both physically and psychologically, deadly competition, fights, cruel punishments, self-harm and the murder of innocent people. Those who complete the ritual are allowed into Sorai's Cult, and those who excel in it, and kill more than the required amount become Sorai's Champions. Those who become champions watch over the initiation, and kill those who try to flee. Rules are slightly different for those of non-humanoid or mechanoids, as their suffering is more focused on their fears and causing them trauma. Members must make the verbal pledge before starting the Proving. Once they do, there is no turning back, and they must go through with it or die trying. Those who flee or back out are hunted down and killed.

While originally meant for humanoid females, Sorai has expanded her horizons to include males, and eventually, mechanoids and non-humanoid races.

## The First Rite

The first part of Sorai's proving involves verbal humiliation and passive aggression. Members are forced to hand over their devices, which are combed through by Sorai herself. Anything found secretive or "juicy" is looked into further. Anything hidden from Sorai results in instant death, and recently deleted items are also included in the search. Depending on what it is, a variety of scenarios can occur. This can be having sexual intercourse with someone while being recorded, in the presence of a friend (usually kidnapped and later discarded of) or something else. If nothing is found, they can move on to the second rite, although Sorai will use anything she can against them, even something small if there truly is nothing.

## The Second Rite

The second part of Sorai's proving involves drugs and drinking. First, members are given a whole bottle of Vodka to finish. Sorai's alchemist Kurtz blends special hallucinogens to make the members even more drunk and disoriented. Then, they are pushed down a staircase. If they survive, they are given some time to rest, but only for a little while. Still drunk, they are given high doses of cocaine and then forced to walk an unstable bridge over two tall buildings. If they don't fall, they are knocked out and put in bed until they are sober and wake up, to prepare for the next rite.

## The Third Rite

The third part of Sorai's proving involves the stripping of members, where they are completely naked in front of other members. They are humiliated physically, and often verbally abused, sometimes even physically. They are then forced to do two sexual acts with their own bodies in front of other members. The first involves some form of public masturbation, and the second involves having sex with another member enduring the same ritual. The sex is recorded, and sent to the member's friends to ruin any remaining relationships.

## The Fourth Rite

The fourth part of Sorai's proving involves "The Harrowing." The harrowing is when members are stripped naked, drugged, and endure a week of physical and mental torture. Medieval, modern, and machine-based torturing methods are used, and all are meant to leave scars, either physical or mental. The members are also starved, and put in large prison-like cells and put in absolute darkness. This is mostly meant for mental breakdown, and Sorai usually personally tortures the members. Upon the end of the fourth rite, Sorai asks the tortured members to pledge themselves to her, and she will stop the torture. No one has ever denied her request. Because of Sorai's tendency to become insane during the torturing, she often further scars the members enduring the Proving.

## The Fifth Rite

The fifth rite of the proving is cruel in more than one aspect. Here, the contestants are forced to engage in to-the-death fights with each other, often unfairly ranked. Losers have a chance of getting revenge by wielding a weapon in battle. These fights are filled with extreme bloodshed, and always results in some deaths. If contestants refuse to fight each other, one of them is brutally killed, and the other forced to watch before also being killed. Winners of fights must then go against two others, resulting in very unfair fights.

## The Sixth Rite

Endless Pain. That is what the sixth rite of the Proving entails. For the strong-willed, the fourth rite may not have broken them quite yet. The sixth rite was designed to break their final walls so they fully submit to Sorai. This rite involves being stripped naked, covered in gasoline, and lit on fire. After minutes of suffering, the victim dies. However, upon their deaths, Sorai will revive them, still burning, to die in pain again. This process is repeated until the victim begs for mercy. When this happens, Sorai ends their pain and stops the burning, and makes them pledge to her once again.

## The Seventh Rite

The seventh rite is a violent one, and focuses on suicide. The seventh rite makes the member commit suicide in a variety of painful ways, before being revived. These include falling from tall buildings, drowning, stabbing, death by various weaponry, and other forms. At least one must be related to their phobia. After this, they are revived again and forced to one again pledge themselves to Sorai, before she painfully kills them through extended torture, usually by stabbing their eyes out, cutting out their tongue, or cutting off a limb before slitting their throats. Upon their revival again, Sorai will praise them and they will move on to the last rite.

## The Final Rite

The final rite proves the member's true loyalty to Sorai. Sorai forces the member to murder innocent people. First, a child, then a mother, and finally, a father from different families. Then, the member must go to their closest friends and families and kill all of them. During their challenge Sorai will provide no assistance, and neither will any other members. They must do so without getting caught, and bring body parts of the deceased to Sorai. After they succeed in doing this, they must enact one final rite, and perhaps the most distrubing and cruel of all: They must eat those they killed. The body parts are cooked and served to the member. Once they complete and eat the deceased, they become fully-fledged new members of Sorai's Cult.

## Champion Approval

Sorai may care very little about her members, but even she herself is capable of giving some praise. To those who are able to withstand the Proving and maintain at least some of their sanity become Sorai's Champions. Usually these Champions also impress Sorai in some way, whether they go above and beyond in fighting skill or simply have an affinity for killing others. The most elite soldiers with the most freedom of all under Sorai's banner. They are also her most loyal members and lead many assaults in her name. Although Sorai cares little of them, she does find them useful enough to keep around unlike most other members.

## Apostle Approval

Very few make it this rank, as it requires extreme quality and loyalty to Sorai. Most of these members are nothing more than living weapons, only unleashed when Sorai herself is in imminent danger. While they may not be as close to Sorai as her champions, their power is matched to none.

## Trivia

Anyone can join Sorai's Cult, from any race or background. There are no restrictions, except they must complete the proving.

No forms of cheating are allowed. If discovered, the member in question will be killed immediately.

Sorai's was inspired by the Dark Dagger's initiation process to make her cult, which is much less cruel but also harrowing.

Sorai uses Pandora's Cube to revive the members out of dark energy, which can be used endlessly. Sorai only revives her Champions, or members of special interest.

Enemies of the past, like Krota, have been revived and forced to pledge themselves to Sorai to do her bidding.

Sorai's Champions have the most freedom, and can practically wander and kill as they please. Sorai has no care of how they complete a mission as long as they succeed.

There are only a few races exempt from Sorai's methods of torture, such as the Vex or Undead races. Instead, they pledge their cores or souls to Sorai, since they are unable to feel pain and are unaffected even by mental trauma.

Sorai's Cult\* (Pending name) used to be a Sorority, but she changed it when she wanted more members.

As of recently, Sorai has begun to incorporate fear into her rites. Even for the strong willed, while pain may be averted, fear is infinite and can be used to fully break one's mentality.