A vow is not merely a strong promise. It invokes a witness — divine, legal, or communal — and entails a self-imposed penalty for failure. Yet where is a vow kept? Not only in memory, but in what we term the Index of the Vow : the abstract or concrete system that references, verifies, and enforces vows. From temple donation records to marriage oaths, from monastic vows to courtroom affirmations, the Index allows a vow to transcend the moment of utterance.
The core of the raid relies on a set of . Before the first encounter, you can find a "tutorial" room containing all these symbols; approaching them will display their official names in the top-left corner of your HUD.