Vagrant story girl

[Polaris]

LOng time ago I saw a poster about Vagarant Story and there was a girl with a tattoo in her back, could you please remind me how that tattoo was, I think that it was a girl with black hair, and had a skirt and a jowel in her forhead...

[Jalbrean]

The girl in the FMV when the game first loads up? As far as I know she's not in the game, and i've played it quite a few times.

[Polaris]

Yeah she was not in the game but I think she appears in the begining.

Do you know this tattoo? Who has it?

[Jalbrean]

That is the 'Rood Inverse' worn by Sydney Losstarot

[Lord Chainsaw]

The girl from the beginning FMV of the game is actually Mullenkamp. The tattoo is the Rood Inverse. Sydney's cult is also known as Mullenkamp, and Sydney has the Rood Inverse as well.

[Big D]

The dancer/priestess girl is certainly Müllenkamp, but the symbol on her back is actually the Iocus Rood, the Cross of St Iocus, rather than the Rood Inverse.

The Iocus Rood is the symbol of the Iocus Priesthood, Vagrant Story's equivalent of the Christian Church. The Rood Inverse is a 'dark' version of the Iocus Rood, branded on the backs of heretics by a Spanish Inquisition-style branch of the Priesthood. The most notable feature of the Rood Inverse is that its central piece is a dagger point downward, unlike the conventional Rood.

Müllenkamp should have the Rood Inverse, since she was one of the heretic cult leaders, but instead she was rendered with the Iocus Rood. This is an error, I believe, but it doesn't matter a whole lot. They just drew design with the "light" cross rather than the "dark" one.

This is the Iocus Rood, the holy symbol that's throughout the game and also on Müllenkamp's back; I couldn't find a good picture of the Rood Inverse, as worn by Sydney Losstarot.

[Polaris]

Thanks guys you were a really nice help!!!!! There was no way taht i could remeber that tattoo!

[Lord Chainsaw]

Interesting. I did not know about the Iocus rood.

Question though: The ultimate weapon in the game (Holy Win I think it was called), was that supposed to be a symbol of the Iocus Rood?

(SPOILER)I noticed during the final battle Guildenstern had a sword similar to the Holy Win, which looks a lot like the rood. Was this sword supposed to be modelled after the Iocus, the Inverse, or neither?

[Big D]

Holy Win (or 'Excalibur', as the blade alone is known) is based on the Iocus Rood, I believe. The Rood Inverse, with its dagger centrepiece, has a distinctive look. The blade is broad near the hilt, and tapers quite a lot, down to a point. The central blade of the Holy Win, and the central strut of the Iocus Rood, are of a uniforn width along their length. (SPOILER)Also, just prior to the Guildenstern fight, the Holy Win can be seen as a decoration of the dome at the top of the Temple. When Guildenstern first begins to embrace the dark and transform, it seems he removes that decoration to use as a weapon. In the temple itself, there are several statues of robed women carrying smaller versions of the Iocus Rood, perhaps a foot and a half long. This suggests that the design might have originated from a multi-bladed sword in the first place, though this is pure speculation.