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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.
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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.