Heroes Love Dogs: The Penitent One is more than willing to take a small break on his quest to give the little puppies that show up close to the Church in Albero a head pat.Whatever the incident, it very likely involved the Mea Culpa.

The Heretic: He was excommunicated when the Brotherhood's mission came to oppose Escribar and the Cvstodian Church.The Faceless: The player never sees the Penitent One's face.Elective Mute: As part of his penance, all members of the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow have taken a vow of silence the Penitent One is no exception.It's also implied that Mea Culpa draws power from the guilt of the wielder, and that being able to use the sword implies that the bearer has been chosen by the Miracle to accomplish great things. Simply wielding Mea Culpa is, in itself, a form of penance: the twisted form of the Father doesn't exactly make for an ergonomic handgrip, and references are made throughout the game to the Penitent One's 'cracked' and 'wounded' hands. Now the figure of the Father forms Mea Culpa's handle and the blade extends from the base of the statue, with thorny vines sculpted onto the bottom two-thirds of the blade. Cool Sword: The Penitent One's holy longsword, the Mea Culpa, was once an ordinary statue of the Father, until a young woman's great faith and overwhelming guilt caused the Miracle to transform it into a weapon (impaling the woman in the process).It is based on the capirote, a pointed hat worn by flagellant brotherhoods during Holy Week in Spain. Cool Helmet: The Penitent One's helmet.However, the Penitent One is evidently male, since the artbook refers to the Penitent One as such, and in the true ending, Deogracias says the Penitent One has replaced Escribar as 'the Father and the Last Son of the Miracle'. Adding to the ambiguity is the fact that the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow does have women in their ranks: in the prequel comic The Kneeling, Crisanta throws the Penitent One's body onto a stack of deceased members of the Brotherhood and says 'Return to your brothers and sisters', and one of the corpses wearing the Brotherhood's helmet in the opening cutscene is female. Ambiguous Gender: Pre-release materials for the game used Gender-Neutral Writing to refer to the Penitent One, and the game never shows what is underneath the helmet and armor.The Penitent One is the last surviving member of the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow, and is on a quest to end the Age of Corruption currently afflicting Cvstodia. Sorrowful be the heart.The Player Character.

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