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The Blood Shrine is a martyr's altar of dark stone, its floor stained with old offerings — the kind of ground the Order fights toward and the penitents long to die upon. It is a fixed point of faith in the middle of the killing.

A friendly fighter making a Charge that ends wholly within the Blood Shrine strikes with +1 Strength and +1 to hit for that combat, the sanctity of the ground driving the blow. The first time each battle a friendly penitent is taken Out of Action within the Shrine, the gang draws two Faith points at the rail's maximum — a death upon the altar is worth twice its weight in miracles. The Order wants this ground; the enemy should never let it have it.

The Penitorium Gate is the heavy blast-door of a mobile prison-shrine — the cage the penitents are loosed from, ringed with chains, censers and the trigger-mechanisms of a dozen Arco-flagellants. When it opens, the damned pour out.

A friendly penitent that begins the battle wholly within 3" of the Gate gains +2" to its first Charge move of the game, flung forward the moment its cell is opened. At the end of any round in which a friendly penitent was taken Out of Action, a single friendly penitent within 3" of the Gate draws one Faith point as the fallen's name is added to The Redeemed. The Gate is where the charge begins and where the martyrs are counted.