Red
Scar:
Courage Scar. Always the highest Scar on the face. No other Scars may be given
until the Courage Scar is earned.
Yellow Scar: Loyality Scar. Given to
Warriors who have risked their life for a Homestone, or cause.
Blue Scar: Virtue Scar. Scars given
to Those true of heart in Their actions and Their words.
Black Scar: Valor Scar. Warriors recieve
this Scar when They have demonstrated Their Honor and that of Their Homestone
during times of conflict.
"On
the face of each there were, almost like corded chevrons, brightly colored
scars. The vivid coloring and intensity of these scars, their prominence,
reminded me of the hideous markings on the faces of mandrills; but these disfigurements,
as I soon recognized, were cultural, not congenital, and bespoke not the natural
innocence of the work of genes but the glories and status, the arrogance and
prides, of their bearers. The scars had been worked into the faces, with needles
and knives and pigments and the dung of bosks over a period of days and nights.
Men had died in the fixing of such scars. Most of the scars were set in pairs,
moving diagonally down from the side of the head toward the nose and chin.
The man facing me had seven such scars ceremonially worked into the tissue
of his countenance, the highest being red, the next yellow, the next blue,
the fourth black, then two yellow, then black again. I recalled what I had
heard whispered of once before, in a tavern in Ar, the terrible Scar Codes
of the Wagon Peoples, for each of the hideous marks on the face of these men
had a meaning, a significance that could be ready by the Paravaci, the Kassars,
the Kataii, the Tuchucks as cleary as you or I might read a sign in a window
or a sentence in a book. At that time I could read only the top scar, the
red, bright, fierce cordlike scar that was the Courage Scar. It is always
the highest scar on the face. Indeed without that scar, no other scar can
be granted. The Wagon Peoples value courage above all else. Each of these
men facing me wore that scar.
" -- Nomads of Gor, pgs 15-16
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