Martial Arts Styles
- Solar Hero Style: The iconic unarmed fighting art of the Lawgivers, embodying pure physical excellence without reliance on weapons. This style teaches overwhelming strength, decisive momentum, fearless engagement, and the ability to take on multiple foes at once. Solar Hero stylists rely on raw athleticism, mythic feats of might, and the indomitable courage of the Unconquered Sun’s Chosen.
- Air-aspected Terrestrial Styles: Focused on flexibility, awareness, misdirection, and fluid movement. Practitioners emulate wind-like motion, weaving between attacks with elusive grace. These styles favor acrobatics, sudden position shifts, and misdirection rather than overwhelming force.
- Earth-aspected Terrestrial Styles: Heavily grounded and resilient forms emphasizing stability, endurance, and immovability. Users deliver slow but crushing counterstrikes while resisting displacement through unyielding posture and hardened Essence.
- Fire-aspected Terrestrial Styles: Aggressive, passionate, and fast-burning arts that channel explosive force. They prioritize decisive offense, hot-blooded momentum, and fierce commitment to ending combat swiftly.
- Water-aspected Terrestrial Styles: Fluid, reactive martial forms emphasizing adaptability, redirection, and constant motion. Water styles allow Dragon-Blooded to flow around attacks, push through defenses, and manipulate the rhythm of a fight. Water Aspects also learn all Terrestrial styles surcharge-free.
- Wood-aspected Terrestrial Styles: A mingling of growth, flexibility, and toxin-themed techniques. Practitioners learn entangling motions, weakening strikes, and Essence patterns that emulate natural growth or decay.
- Terrestrial Hero Style: The universal Dragon-Blooded martial discipline—unarmed, practical, and instinctive. It emphasizes grappling, disarming, restraining, and dominating physical engagements. Dragon-Blooded across all walks of life learn at least its basics, and it remains adaptable to nearly any combat need.
- Five-Dragon Style: The only Terrestrial-level art officially endorsed by the Immaculate Order, embodying the balanced strength of all five elements. This style teaches versatile battlefield techniques, elemental-themed strikes, wide accessibility for Dynasts, and structured katas that prepare students for more advanced Dragon Paths.
- Air Dragon Style: A Celestial martial art taught by the Immaculate Order, emphasizing agility, acrobatics, evasive movement, and wind-carried strikes. Students mimic the wind’s adaptability, turning their bodies into swirling, redirecting currents of Essence. Signature weapon: the chakram.
- Earth Dragon Style: A powerful Celestial form centered on unwavering stance, unstoppable force, and elemental solidity. Practitioners evoke the weight of mountains to deliver bone-shattering blows and near-immovable defense.
- Fire Dragon Style: A blazing, aggressive Celestial discipline embodying heat, passion, explosive violence, and unstoppable offense. Immaculates trained in Fire Dragon Style strike with burning intensity and overwhelming momentum.
- Water Dragon Style: A fluid Celestial style of circular motion, redirecting force, overwhelming flow, and adaptability. Masters use water’s persistence to wear down defenses and shape combat’s rhythm. Water-aspected Immaculates favor its teachings.
- Wood Dragon Style: A Celestial style of coiling, rooted movement. Attacks emulate natural growth—seizing, binding, or weakening foes—while practitioners cultivate inner vitality and regenerative Essence.
- Terrestrial Hero Style: The basic, widely practiced Dragon-Blooded “hero style,” here expanded with grappling-focused Charms that emphasize wrestling, disarming, restraining, and taking direct physical control of one or several opponents in honorable or personal combat.
- Falling Blossom Style: A Terrestrial bodyguard art that trains practitioners to interpose themselves between danger and their charge, enduring blows and sacrificing themselves if needed to keep another person safe.
- First Pulse Style: A rough, street-born style developed in alleys and docks rather than formal dojos, turning brawling instincts, dirty tricks, and survival-driven reflexes into a coherent Terrestrial martial art.
- Golden Janissary Style: A holy Fire-aspected style that channels righteous light and flame, designed to defend Creation and banish or destroy beings from beyond its bounds such as demons and other blasphemous threats.
- Ill Lily Style: A Wood-aspected style that complements Dragon-Blooded toxic affinities, blending elegance with poison, venoms, and weakening techniques to wear down foes rather than crush them outright.
- Jade Mountain Style: An Earth-themed style that embodies immovability and crushing strength, teaching its users to stand like a mountain, absorb punishment, and deliver slow, devastating counterblows.
- Night Breeze Style: A silent, subtle art of stealth, invisibility, and quiet movement—positioned as a calm, whispering counterpoint to the roaring, open fury of Air Dragon Style.
- Orgiastic Fugitive Style: A strange, ecstatic style that turns indulgence, revelry, and debauchery into weapons and twisted paths to “enlightenment,” using excess and distraction to unbalance enemies and empower the user.
- Seafaring Hero Style: A swashbuckling Terrestrial style for sailors and pirates, built for fighting on rolling decks, using rigging, terrain, and shipboard tools to gain advantage in naval melees.
- White Veil Style: A conspiratorial style of stealth, deception, and poison; it focuses on political murder, manipulation, and subtle assassination, hiding lethal intent behind courtesies and masks.
- Crimson Pentacle Blade Style: A polearm-focused style using staves, spears, and similar weapons; its greatest strengths are in coordinated actions between multiple practitioners, including complex multi-character Combos and formation tactics.
- Even Blade Style: A refined sword style favored in the Realm, teaching Exalted swordplay that balances speed, precision, and versatility; later discoveries reveal a deeper, larger Charm tree than its creators first realized.
- Fivefold Shadow Hand Style: A system of mystic defenses and devotions activated by specific hand gestures; effectively five interlocking elemental “sub-styles” combined into one, giving flexible mystical protection and counter-techniques.
- Solar Hero Style: The Solar “hero style,” here expanded with new Charms that celebrate the lone champion who stands against hordes—focusing on bold, straightforward might, battlefield dominance, and glorious physical heroism.
- Celestial Monkey Style: A playful yet profound Celestial style that seeks balance between impulse and serenity, using awkward-seeming stances, misdirection, and sudden shifts between foolishness and perfect calm to confound foes.
- Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style: A graceful, dance-like art that blends seduction, beauty, and social poise with lethal combat techniques, turning fans, veils, and movement itself into weapons of distraction and death.
- Ebon Shadow Style: A stealth-killer’s Celestial style that specializes in secret, silent death—moving through darkness, striking unseen, and disappearing before alarm can be raised.
- Laughing Wounds Style: A morbid style created by deathknights, whose practitioners revel in pain—both their own and their enemies’—turning suffering, blood, and injury into sources of perverse joy and power.
- Mantis Style: An insect-inspired art emphasizing deceptive stillness, sudden explosive strikes, limb-trapping, joint-locks, and vicious follow-through, modeling the predatory patience and brutality of the mantis.
- Righteous Devil Style: A gun kata built around flame weapons; its users enhance firedust, firewands, and similar armaments with Essence to call malefactors to judgment and burn away the wicked in blazing confrontations.
- Silver-Voiced Nightingale Style: A musical martial art that uses song, rhythm, and performance as weapons; practitioners alter emotions, empower allies, and harm enemies through perfectly controlled sound and melody.
- Tiger Style: A brutal, bestial Celestial style that embodies the tiger’s ferocity, using powerful, committed strikes, rending claws, and relentless aggression to annihilate foes.
- Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic Style: A terrifying, reality-warping Sidereal style that attacks identity and perception, using mastery of how actions shape understanding to fracture sanity, twist viewpoints, and break minds so thoroughly that witnesses cannot reliably describe what they experienced.
- Charcoal March of Spiders Style: A predatory Sidereal art that draws on spider imagery—ensnaring foes in webs of Essence, transforming or immobilizing them, and ultimately consuming or unraveling them like prey caught in a web.
- Citrine Poxes of Contagion Style: A plague-themed style devoted to disease in body, spirit, and Essence; practitioners seed, shape, and weaponize contagions, spreading corruption and sickness as precise instruments of fate and punishment.
- Obsidian Shards of Infinity Style: A mirror-and-fragmentation Sidereal art that reflects and then shatters Creation—creating Essence duplicates, splitting identity, and swarming enemies with shards of self and reality until the battlefield is filled with lethal reflections.
- Prismatic Arrangement of Creation Style: A grand, Essence-focused style that emulates the magical materials and the flows of Creation itself, allowing the user to assume aspects of orichalcum, jade, moonsilver, starmetal, and more, and to wield Essence for supreme attack and defense.
- Quicksilver Hand of Dreams Style: A dream-warping martial art that turns battles into nightmares; its Charms let practitioners step between waking and dream, shape dream-stuff into weapons, and assault enemies through their own perceptions and sleeping minds.
- Scarlet-Patterned Battlefield Style: A war-and-motion Sidereal style that exerts command over movement, trajectories, and conflict itself, letting the master choreograph battles like intricate patterns and rewrite how armies and individuals move and clash across the field.