Breaking of Cain

Breaking of Cain is a form of ritualistic murder in which a victim's limbs are broken and then immediately healed repeatedly, causing severe deformations until eventually molded into a mark of Cain. The victim is then left to die, by either starvation, dehydration, blood loss, anaphylactic shock, caustic substances, pneumothorax, or by heart failure; following the victim's death, the Cainnite will cease actively hiding the victim and leave the site of the ceremony.

Execution

Many worshippers see elaboration as an essential part of the ritual and will often carefully plan out the location and order of fractures, the time they are left unhealed, how far is the limb stretched prior to healing, ornamental additions to the mark, and any other such plannings. In some cases, the victim is tied to a wooden mark of Cain which they are broken into, and once finished they are nailed to the boards and left in public; in a famous case in the Kingdom of Arasil a High Primate of Cain broke a victim to be tied around such a wooden mark.

Observance

The 11^th Century AB also marked a noticable increase in the sporadic observence of the breaking; many places in fact condone this act as an act of justice - especially in areas where law enforcement cannot deliver it, due to insufficient manpower, lack of interest, or sheer incompetence. Though this observance of the ritual is secular in nature, it nontheless empowers The First Sinner.
In one of the towns of the newly founded Emirate of Al Mdiyah, the Human population was prone to acts of vigilante justice when it was under the jurisdiction of the preoccupied Royal Army of The Majestic Kingdom of Keatis, commonly evoking the gruesome imagry of mutilated and malformed offenders as a warning to others.

This is our devotion;
This is our conviction;
You shall wait no longer;
We toiled hard in your name;
By the sweat of our brow;
Embrace this broken form;
To you we dedicate this act;
To you who has his right;
This is your claim.