Something that I’ve wondered ever since I got the ruinous effigy was what the perk’s image represented. Through a series of what can only be described as sheer dumb luck I stumbled upon the answer: the symbol represents a labyrinth.
Labyrinths tend have a meaning of transformation, but in particular, a predetermined one.
(This post is less about the actual ramifications and lore of the symbol, but more of sharing what the symbol itself is.)
[quote]Labyrinths tend have a meaning of transformation, but in particular, a predetermined one.[/quote]
Enemies you kill with it transform into transmutation spheres.
Transmutation is “the action of changing or the state of being changed into another form.”