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===The Dance of the Blinding Blade===
Every seventeen years a contest called '''The Dance of the Blinding Blade''' is held, where the the most elite of the cult compete with a visiting troupe of [[Harlequins]] in a series of bloody, blisteringly fast bouts. In them, duels are fought until one contestant manages to inflict thirteen shallow cuts upon their foe with a shard-knife. Waves of murderous beasts are also released to further compete and see which small group of wyches or harlequins manage to slay a greater tally in ever more inventive and spectacular ways. Marksmanship, agility, resilience and speed are tested to their limits amid polychromatic storms of light hurtling anti-grav blades.{{Fn|2a}}
The height of the show is the duel to the death between one of the [[Succubi]] of the Cult against the leering form of the Harlequins' Troupe Master. Some of these duels have been known to last for hours before one of the fighters finally tumbles dead onto the bloody sand.{{Fn|2a}}
