Thorn Citation

The first Thorn Citation was carved into oak bark by an ancient league recorder who observed a player crawl through the deadliest bramble patch of the dry woods to retrieve a lost disc, then still manage a par. The thorns wrote their judgment into the player's skin, and the recorder immortalized their defiance in the official ledger.

The tag surface is rough, resembling pressed oak bark with visible thorn impressions along its jagged edges. It bears a persistent red tint where it contacts the bearer's skin, as if permanently stained by the blood of survival. During mountain storms, the tag hums with a low resonance, resonating with the ancient frequency of the peaks that witnessed the bearer's endurance.

The Thorn Citation serves as the recorder of last stands - when all seems lost, the entity activates, allowing the bearer to mount improbable comebacks from positions that should yield certain defeat. It grants its bearer advantage when playing from the worst lies, for the deeper the rough, the stronger the tag's influence becomes.