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Red-jackets, also known as bone-grubbers, are the highest rank for clairvoyants in Sheol I.

Description[]

Voyants earn their red jacket when they pass their second test. Their jacket is a scarlet color. Red-jackets are deeply despised by the other voyants, who call them by the derogatory nickname bone-grubbers. Red-jackets are responsible for protecting Sheol I from the Emim. They also keep the other voyants and amaurotics in line. The Rephs send red-jackets after humans with an aura. In return for their service, they are given special privileges by the Rephaim. For example, the amaurotics are only supposed to cook for red-jackets. If a red-jacket shows cowardice, such as running from a fight against the Emim, they become a yellow-jacket. The red-jackets are viewed as the military elite and are valued by the Rephaim for their clairvoyant abilities and willingness to obey and carry out orders. They court the favor of the Rephaim and are fully indoctrinated by them. Red-jackets are expected to be loyal to Nashira even above their own keepers. Most of the red-jackets have been successfully brainwashed and act as human agents of the Sargas.

Because most of the clairvoyants the Rephaim and Scion capture are mostly outsiders of the syndicate, many of them are happy to serve the Rephaim. They have been mistreated by their own kind. And while the Rephaim treat them as second-class citizens, they sill give them the chance to indulge in the æther, and they get to belong to a social structure again. For example, Carl tells Paige that Sheol I is safe for them and asks her why she would want to leave it. He tells her it's the one place they belong because they can be clairvoyant there and don't have to hide. He believes Sheol I and SciLo are both just prisons, but at least he doesn't have to hide who he is in Sheol I.

After the fall of Sheol I, the red-jackets that remained loyal to Nashira are made into a new group of the NVD, called Punishers.

Trivia[]

  • Red-jackets are called bone-grubbers because they help lead humans to their deaths.[1]

References[]

  1. The Bone Season: Chapter 11
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