The Bone Scribes & Redgate Mark (North Gate Garrison tattoo)

Posted on December 30, 2025 in Steel-Realms

The Redgate Mark is often a tattoo that soldiers get for service on The Autumn Wall as well. Unlike Crown Tags, this is done at the end of their first Tour of Duty, using their unit’s name & symbol and dates of service. Once applied, it cannot be taken off. It is used to exempt service for criminals and freedmen alike if service is sought or conscripted.

Ink Source: The tattoo uses the caustic ink known as Kinsbane Blood (named after the Druuzd Lord Jrothar Kinsbane); it is made with Baighent’s Ink and the ichor from the Lich Lords minions and mixed with the pitch from the elder pines of the Gaur Dinuae Forest collected by the elves for this purpose. The ink never fades, and under moonlight it glows a deep blood red color.

Stolen Valor: Those found somehow getting The Red Gate Mark without earning it are dealt with most harshly, execution without exception.

Bone Scribes

The Bones Scribes are tattooists and all veterans of the North Gate Garrison Tour of Duty. There are shops in a few places in Rhyl that have access to copies of the rolls of the Realms Levy for North Gate Garrison. The Bone Scribes do tattoo, piercings, scarring/burning.

They will even work with bones brought back from service fighting the undead in the north. They work with Quizmans Magesterium shops & members or Rhylander Green Conjurists to ensure that no residual magic is left in such trophies, on the rare occasions they get the request.

Bone Scribe’s Tattoo Parlor Locations

• Crossed Fingers – Bone Scribe’s tattoo parlor
• Honeyburns – Bone Scribe’s tattoo parlor
• Redmans – Bone Scribe’s tattoo parlor
• Sawbones Jones – Bone Scribe’s tattoo parlor
• The Bone Spear – Bone Scribe’s tattoo parlor
• Whiteman Chase’s – Bone Scribe’s tattoo parlor