Monastic Orders

Martial arts traditions of the world. Not all of these are intended for the monk class.

Hari-Hara
"The Mending, Maiming Way", a martial art form practiced in Alalku. The core notion of the discipline is one of balance - for every destructive technique one of healing and restoration is taught.

Hari-Hara teaches practitioners to wreath their body in a variety of energies - in that, it is almost closer to a spellcasting school than a martial art - intended to pass greater harm or pass beneath the skin and mend those they impact. The forms of the art are highly precise, as - according to its masters - unformed gestures are dangerous in that they do not function as intended. Accordingly, techniques of Hari-Hara may seem at times highly automatic or formalized. It is not a fluid art.

The Khartoumm School
Khartoummi martial artists are taught in a secretive cloister beneath the ruins of Kosh. Their art is one of punishment - its techniques are aimed to exploit the magics and sorceries of the various sorcerous traditions of the world. Its practical techniques involve a great deal of maneuvers intended to disorient or blind

The Khartoumm School is generally unwelcome anywhere - unless a powerful spellcaster is hazarding a population.

Of the Khartoummi, there are two primary paths of practice.
 * The Khartoummi Old Ways, a traditionalist path encouraging mastery of hand-to-hand techniques.
 * The Khartoummi New Ways, a revisionist path encouraging a hybrid approach to the Old Ways and embracing firearms technology.

Hipparnush Analytical School of Physiology and Predictive Response
"That Peshqil School".

Hipparnush martial artists are as much logic-monk as they are warriors. Generally functioning as physicians and chirurgeons within their Hall, the warrior way of Hipparnush teaches to learn the ways of the body and the movements it can make, anticipate the actions of those you fight, and disable those actions. It is a style of injury, grappling pins, and reaction.