Tattoo

Cultural Significance

 * Wild dwarf: Tattoos were believed common among the wild dwarves who were reputed to be bloodthirty savages, even though that reputation was likely an exagerration.
 * Uthgardt: The barbarian folk of the North Faerûn who worshiped Uthgar, belonged to different animal totem tribes. Males of these moutanous humans were known to tatto themselves with the images of their tribes' totems.
 * Zakharan: Purity was a virtue of great value in the Land of Fate. Many human and non-human women wore veils, exposing little of their body to casual observers. As such, eyes, hands, and feet were objects of beauty in Zakhara, to be decorated. Women sometimes chose to tattoo their foreheads with simple designs appealing to the eye. Mamluks of Zakhara wore their military ranks and organization affiliations tattooed on their faces. They often consisted of lines, patters on their cheeks, circles, the more status and power they had, the more sophisticated the tattoos were. Imitating of faking these tattoos was a grave offese in the Mamluk society. Mamluks who were disgraced or commited severe crimes had their facial tattoos foreceully and painfully removed with pumice pushes.

Religion
Talona: Facial tattoos were poopular among the worhipers of the Mother of all PLagues. Her worhipers imitated the goddess' tattooed face by covering their own with ritual tattoos and scarification.

History
In the Hammer of the, Iriaebor in the Western Heartlands became afflicted by the Spotted Plague that took lives of twenty people before being contained by the city's priests. The investigation concluded that the desiese was of magical nature and likely was connected to heavily-tattoed Talonite worhipers that passed the city shortly before the outbreak. Several more outbreaks eventually led to a panic i nthe city of Procampur. There, a woman who claimed to be a sailor with facial tattoos was accused of beinf a plague-spreading Talonite and was killed by a mob.

Notable Tattoo Parlors

 * Ehaevaera's Beauty Rooms, a female-only beauty saloon in the city of Scornubel, the Western Heartlands. The establishment offered its customers hairstyling, manicures, body painting, perfumed baths, massages, and tattoos.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * Azure Bonds &bull; Red Magic
 * Video Games
 * Neverwinter Nights: Pirates of the Sword Coast