![]() ![]() A young Vlad the Impaler in Count and Countess sustains heavy wounds on his throat and loses part of his ear.Power-hungry Ritualists will gladly use blood from other sources. Old-fashioned, self-sacrificing and community-oriented Ritualists will only use their own blood. Canim Ritualists have to spill blood to work magic. However, due to the nature of Canim culture and magic in the setting, these hammer home that he is a follower of the Good Old Ways and a good guy. Codex Alera: Canim Ritualist Marok has arms covered in Self-Harm scars.In Chung Kuo, Gangster boss Whiskers Lu has had half his face scarred by acid.Hodgell's Chronicles of the Kencyrath, heroine Jame picks up a classic Good Scar in Book 3 (vertical below the left eye). However, they healed so that her skin lies smooth, and Jerin finds the scars attractive, giving her plain face boldness and character. Cira of A Brother's Price has a scar from the corner of her left eye down the line of her chin to the corner of her mouth, and her body is Covered with Scars.A number of these were received as punishment for crimes, emphasizing that while they're the protagonists, they're definitely not heroic. Some of the scalp hunters of Blood Meridian bear grisly and noticeable scars, including missing ears and letters branded on the face.A friendly Murgo in The Malloreon sequel series has barely-visible nicks on his jaw as a sign that he only ever paid lip service to the Religion of Evil. In The Belgariad, the Murgos are a Proud Warrior Race whose rite of passage to adulthood involves slashing their faces as a blood sacrifice to the insane God of Evil Torak, which leaves distinctive scars to indicate their zealotry.Thomas' scars are cosmetic surgery to make him resemble the horribly disfigured real Thomas Marik, who is the leader of the Word. However, as a leader he strives for honor and decency, and he is also one of the strongest opponents of the genocidal Word of Blake. In BattleTech, the duplicate Thomas Marik is horribly burned across the right side of his body, possibly missing an eye (Artwork seems to vary on this point). Subversion and played straight at the same time.This is largely omitted in the film adaptation, although Pullings has minor scarring, Midshipman Blakeney has an amputation of one arm, in his role as a composite of several minor characters, and in a reference to the torture, Maturin flexes his fingers before he plays cello. Maturin acquires serious damage to his hands from French torture (it is implied his fingernails were torn out) that make it harder for him to play his cello, but it got better later on, although only in a relative sense. His subordinate Tom Pullings has severe facial scarring, Babbington has an amputated nose (which Doctor Maturin is repeatedly called upon to testify was lost due to frostbite, rather than syphilis), and a number of minor characters have assorted deformities. "Fighting Jack" Aubrey, from the Aubrey-Maturin books, has a generous assortment of scars which he acquires in large part, during the events of the series. ![]()
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