Rite of Commandment

Rite of Commandment "The commandment must be placed upon the priestess's empty eyes." Kanji 戒ノ儀 Location Kuze Shrine Participants Tattooed Priestess Frequency Unknown Purpose For the priestess to release her personal connections to the real world in preparation for the Impalement ritual. Game Fatal Frame III

The ritual performed after the Piercing of the Soul ritual was complete, in which the Tattooed Priestess goes to sleep forever. The Rite of Commandment may also have included the priestess's ritual to break her attachment to the world, by placing the Mirror of Loss is placed into the Shrine of Loss and shattering it.

Preparation

In preparation for this ritual the Tattooed Priestess engraved her own pain of loss into the Mirror of Loss. She would accept the tattoos and undergo the Piercing of the Soul.

The Ritual

The Tattooed Priestess would descend into the Abyss and pass into the underworld. At the Shrine of Loss in the Last Passage, she would shatter the Mirror of Loss with her own hands, breaking all attachment to the world. She would then proceed down to the Chamber of Thorns to sleep forever. Her limbs would be staked down so that she could not move or return to reality.

Result

The Tattooed Priestess gives up all of her connections to the outside world and is ready to bear the pain of the worshippers to the afterlife.