Blood Pact (other)
Blood Pact may refer to: * ''Blood Pact'', a 1993 book by Tanya Huff from the series '' Blood Books'' * '' Blood Pact'', a 2009 book by Dan Abnett from the series ''Gaunt's Ghosts'' * Blood Pact, a 2013 book by Sharon Rose Mayes * '' Blood Pact'', a 2018 Brazilian crime drama television series. See also * Blood oath (ritual) * Blood compact Blood compact (Spanish: ''Pacto de sangre''; Filipino: ''Sanduguan'') was an ancient ritual in the Philippines intended to seal a friendship or treaty, or to validate an agreement. The contracting parties would cut their hands and pour their blood ...

Tanya Huff
Tanya Sue Huff (born 1957) is a Canadian fantasy author. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s, including five fantasy series and one science fiction series. One of these, her '' Blood Books'' series, featuring detective Vicki Nelson, was adapted for television under the title '' Blood Ties''. Biography Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Huff was raised in Kingston, Ontario. Her first sale as a writer was to '' The Picton Gazette'' when she was ten. They paid $10 for two of her poems. Huff joined the Canadian Naval Reserve in 1975 as a cook, ending her service in 1979. In 1982 she received a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, Ontario; she was in the same class as science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer and they collaborated on their final TV Studio Lab assignment, a short science-fiction show. In the early 1980s she worked at Mr. Gameway's Ark, a game store in Downtown Toronto. From 1984 to 1 ...
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Gaunt's Ghosts
''Gaunt's Ghosts'' is a series of military science fiction novels by Dan Abnett, set in the ''Warhammer 40,000'' universe. It was inspired by the ''Sharpe (novel series), Sharpe'' series of books written by Bernard Cornwell. As of 2019 in literature, 2019, the series spans 16 novels which document the efforts of the Tanith First, a highly skilled yet unappreciated light infantry infantry regiment, regiment of the Imperial Guard (Warhammer 40,000), Imperial Guard, during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. The protagonist is Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, one of the few political commissars of the Imperium to be officially awarded command of a regiment. Although Gaunt is the primary character, the perspective from which the novels are told shifts regularly to encompass a wider view of events – it is usually told from the Imperial point of view, though the perspective is occasionally seen through the eyes of antagonists. Elements of the series later reappeared in other series by Abnett ...
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Pacto De Sangue
''Pacto de Sangue'' () is a Brazilian crime drama television series created by Lucas Vivo and produced by Intro Pictures loosely based on the real-life story of Wallace Souza, a Brazilian TV personality from Amazonas, who was accused of ordering a series of murders to improve the ratings of his crime show. The first season, of eight episodes, was shown on Space in Brazil from August 2018, and on Netflix in some countries from October 2018. Plot Silas Campello is an ambitious and charismatic TV reporter who becomes a famous police program presenter and one of the most powerful names in the state of Pará. However, to achieve this fame he was able to go through the most devious paths. With the help of his brother Edinho, he maintains alliances with criminals where he ordered murders to be able to display them on television, further increasing his audience. Cast and characters * Guilherme Fontes as Silas Campello * Ravel Cabral as Roberto Moreira * André Ramiro as Soar ...
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Blood Oath (ritual)
Blood brother can refer to two or more men not related by birth who have sworn loyalty to each other. This is in modern times usually done in a ceremony, known as a blood oath, where each person makes a small cut, usually on a finger, hand or the forearm, and then the two cuts are pressed together and bound, the idea being that each person's blood now flows in the other participant's veins. The act carries a risk due to blood-borne diseases. The process usually provides a participant with a heightened symbolic sense of attachment with the other participant. Cultures Scandinavia The Norsemen entering the pact of foster brotherhood ( is, Fóstbræðralag) involved a rite in which they let their blood flow while they ducked underneath an arch formed by a strip of turf propped up by a spear or spears. An example is described in ''Gísla saga''. In '' Fóstbræðra saga'', the bond of Thorgeir Havarsson (Þorgeir Hávarsson) and Thormod Bersason (Þormóð Bersason) is sealed by ...
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