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Advanced Military Arts: Entrance Requirements: No Attribute or Alignment restrictions. Skill Cost: 16 Years (8 Years as Secondary Martial Art Form) Costume: Standard Karate outfit but with a colored silk sash in place of the belt. Optional cloth wrappings around the wrist-forearm and calve-ankle. Stance: A wide sideways stance with legs almost…[Read more]

Scholar’s Dueling Martial Art Form By Flash Fire “And is he a man to encounter Tybalt?” “Why, what is Tybalt?” “More than Prince of Cats, I can tell you. O, he is the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, [...]

Tarken De’irth By Sinestus Designed to be one of the deadliest of martial arts. This style, named after its creator, relies primarily on movement, and is enhanced by the use of weapons. Initially, the style was only taught to Tarken’s native race, Dark Elves, however, since then some masters have chosen to teach a select [...]

Swashbuckling Martial Art Form ( Exclusive ) By FlashFire “If there were a degree for swashbuckling, it would have to include a course in laughing then jumping off of things.” – Unknown “En garde.” These two words strike more fear into the hearts of swordsmen than any threat or weapon. A sea captain would rather [...]

Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu Kenjutsu By Kuseru Entrance Requirements: Limited to those of Honorable Alignments. Minimum Attributes include P.S.: 8, P.P.: 10, P.E.: 12 and Spd.: 10. Skill Cost: 12 Years (8 Years as a Secondary Martial Art Style). Around 1450 A.D., Iisaza Choisai Ienao (1387-1488) founded the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu. This [...]

Yung Huo Jen- The Eternal Fires of the Sword During the mid-16th century, a man known only as The Vagabond spent his life wandering Asia searching for physical and spiritual perfection. Over the span of his journeys he traveled from the northern islands of Japan to the Ural Mountains. The Vagabond eventually reached the highest [...]

Zentrial By Mephisto Entrance Requirements: I.Q. 9, M.A. 8, M.E. 9 Skill Cost: 25 Years Zentrial (Elven for Regality) is an ancient Elven martial art believed to have existed since the Elf-Dwarf war. It is a fast, decisive martial art stressing etiquette and manners as well as using swords and staffs. There are many protocols [...]

Zi Ran Men (Nature Gate) By Hibik Entrance Requirements: M.E. and P.P. of 12 or higher. No alignment restriction. Skill Cost: 14 Years (7 Years as a Secondary Martial Art Style). ‘There is no beginning or end of movement, there is no beginning or end of stillness, there is no beginning or end of change. [...]

Yagyu Shinkage Ryu Kenjutsu (Exclusive) By Kuseru Entrance Requirements: Minimum Attributes include P.P.: 12, and Spd.: 12. Skill Cost: 16 years. The Yagyu Shinkage Ryu is one of several traditions of combative swordsmanship that originated in Japan’s turbulent warring states period (c.1490 – c.1600).The Shinkage Ryu, which has been preserved down…[Read more]

Way of the Forgotten Spirit By Brian K Partridge As human augmentation reached new heights in Japan, Lei Chi-Aki grew to notice the complete irreverence given to the ancient kami of the islands. He knew that fighting would not teach the “techies” a lesson but the passion he felt for his fading culture grew more [...]

Tobu Tsuken Ryu Kenjutsu (Flying Crane School Sword Art) By Ray Bull In the early 1600s Okinawa changed possession from China to Japan, stranding many Chinese citizens on the island. One of these people was a Sifu of White Crane Kung Fu. As with the other Chinese people he was ignored or scorned, except by [...]

Titan Swordsmanship By Mephisto Entrance Requirements: Other than being a Titan; none Skill Cost: 45 Years The only martial art possessed by the legendary Titan giants, it’s a hereditary martial art that’s said to survive since the Age of Light! The Titans who know this are indeed a privileged few; it includes some very specialized [...]

Maniwa Nen Ryu By Kuseru Entrance Requirements: No Attribute or Alignment restrictions. Skill Cost: 15 years (8 years as a Secondary Martial Art Style). This style was founded in 1368 by Soma Shiro Yoshimoto (who was later known as Nen Ami Jion). In 1494, this art was taken to the village of Maniwa by Higuchi [...]

RINGEN AM SCHWERT By Kuseru Entrance Requirements: No alignment or attribute restrictions. Skill Cost: 14 Years (12 Years as a Secondary Martial Art Style) Ringen am Schwert (Grappling and Sword) is a medieval German style developed around the same time as Arte Dello Spadone in Germany and the Eastern European portions of the Holy Roman [...]

Qingping Jian-Green Water Lily Sword (EXCLUSIVE) By Hibik “If you are a nobleman of strong stature, then you must have Qingping Jian.” -Chen Lin, on Qingping Jian. Qingping Jian is one of the oldest of the Chinese Swordsmanship styles. While information on its early years is sparse, historical references date back to as far as [...]

PARADOX OF DEFENCE By Kuseru Entrance Requirements: No alignment or attribute restrictions. Skill Cost: 13 Years (11 Years as a Secondary Martial Art Style) This is the style of English Swordsmanship advocated by the mercenary George Silver in his 1599 book, Paradoxes of Defence. Silver developed this style to counter the growing influence of Spanish [...]

Niten Ryu Kenjutsu (Exclusive) By Kuseru Entrance Requirements: Limited to those of Honorable Alignments. Minimum Attributes include P.S.: 10, P.P.: 12, and Spd.: 10. Skill Cost: 12 Years. Also called Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu and Nito Ryu. Niten Ryu was founded in the first half of the 17th century by Miyamoto Musashi Fujiwara Genshin (1584-1645). [...]

Oni Chi Te (Demon Blood Fist) By Ray Bull Some martial historians believe that Oni Chi Te may have originated in the Kali worshiping cults of India. The first written mention of the style comes from the Meiji Restoration (1868-1872) when both sides of the conflict were searching for some way to overcome the other. [...]

Olympic Fencing By Flash Fire Entrance Requirements: None, though a high PP and PE is preferred. Skill Cost: 3 years (2 years if Secondary) Olympic Fencing is not a martial art, but rather a combat based sport, and a loosely based one at that. This form focuses on three separate weapons, and on those weapons [...]

Nagareboshi Ryu – The Falling Star School (Exclusive) By Tinker Dragoon Entrance Requirements: None Skill Cost: 14 Years This style from a remote mountain in Japan was created by an aged Buddhist monk in the year 1412 A.D. One night, while meditating under the open sky, the monk observed a falling star and was inspired [...]