Fencing Styles of Sel-Kai
Below are listed some of the fencing and fighting styles available in Sel-Kai City. The names of individual styles have developed a custom of being presented in Erlin.
Training based on hand to hand combat and other types of weapons can also be found, use adapted styles from GURPS Martial Arts, 2nd. ed., Volker Bach's Pyramid Articles and GURPS Swashbucklers (Old School style).
Advanced Soldiers Training (6/7)
Some of the more elite units of the army are trained in the following template or something very similar. This training is certainly not stylish or aestethic in it's form, as it's meant to keep people alive on the battlefield.
Primary skills: Fencing (Rapier), Broadsword, Main-Gauche, Brawling
Secondary skills: Wrestling, Cloak.
Optional Skills: Polearm, Buckler, Crossbow.
Maneuvers: Corps-á-corps, Fleché, Feint (Rapier or Broadsword), Lunge (Rapier)
Cinematic Skills: None
Cinematic Maneuvers: Dual-Weapon Attack
Weapons used: Slashing Rapier, Large Knife, more as optional skills indicate.
Dragons Fangs (Lowtown Street Knife Fighting) (6/7)
This style is exemplary of the fighting skills developed by eg. some of the more organized street gangs in Sel-Kai. Dragons Fangs is the name attributed to the moves practiced by the Red Dragons. Modified forms are seen with eg. the Golden Hand (no Knife-oriented skills, but knuckle-bar-enhanced Karate instead).
Primary skills: Brawling, Main-Gauche.
Secondary skills: Wrestling
Optional skills: Judo, Karate, Jumping, Running, Fast-Draw (Knife)
Maneuvers: Close Combat (Main-Gauche), Ground Fighting (any), Kicking, Off-hand Weapon Training
(Main-Gauche)
Cinematic Skills: None.
Cinematic Maneuvers: Dual-Weapon Attack (Main-Gauche)
Weapons used: Large knives, knucklebars, heavy boots.
Throk Saren (er: Guardian Sword) (Typical Gentlemans Tutor style) (8/17)
Throk Saren is an example of the training that an accomplished school might offer the mediumly dedicated gentleman. This particular style is taught at the Tyrl Throk Saren (er: The Great Hall of the Guardian Sword), an establishment under the leadership of Pearon Staafeil, an Erlini gentleman of some repute, and not only for his duelling capabilities.
Primary Skills: Fencing (Rapier), Cloak
Secondary Skills: Brawling, Main-Gauche, Wrestling
Optional Skills: Acrobatics, Fast-Draw (Rapier or Main-Gauche) Jumping, Running,
Savior-Faire, Tournament Law.
Maneuvers: Corps-á-corps, Counterattack, Disarming (Fencing), Fleché, Feint
(Fencing), Lunge [thrust] (Fencing), Off-Hand Weapons Training.
Cinematic Skills: Blind Fighting
Cinematic Maneuvers: Dual-Weapon Attack, Enhanced Parry (Fencing), Flying Lunge.
Weapons used: Standard Rapier, Large Knife
Vurt Usiva (er: Wild Waters) (Very Modern/Advanced/Demanding Tutors style) (19/45)
This style represents some of the most advanced training you can get based on the Rapier. Traning on this level is very demanding and time consuming, The Wild Waters style is taught by Ranen Dyresart and a few associates at the small but exquisite Kyr Rel (er: Grand Lagoon) academy, at outrageous prices. The style philosophy is based on the study of flowing water and the rippling and curling resulting from meeting obstacles and defeating them.
Primary Skills: Fencing (Rapier), Main-Gauche, Cloak
Secondary Skills: Acrobatics, Brawling, Fast-Draw (Fencing & Main-Gauche),
Jumping, Savoir-Faire, Tournament Law, Wrestling.
Optional Skills: Buckler, Physics/TL4, Philosophy
Maneuvers: Close Combat (Fencing & Main-Gauche), Corps-á-corps, Counterattack,
Disarming (Fencing), Esquive, Fleché, Feint (Fencing), Floor
Lunge, Glide, Hit Location (Fencing), Lunge [cut or thrust] (Fencing), Off-hand Weapons Training, Pass [cut or
thrust], Retain
Weapon, Riposte, Slip, Sweep.
Cinematic Skills: Blind Fighting
Cinematic Maneuvers: Dual-Weapon Attack, Enhanced
Dodge, Enhanced Parry (Fencing), Flying Lunge, Initial Carving, Sentiment de Fer, Sweeping Counter Parry.
Weapons used: Standard Rapier, Large Knife
Elven Transitional Style (15/46)
In the advanced and stylised civilisations of some elven nations, the niceties of societal practices soon made the classical warriors (see below) a bit out of place. Before the actual elven smallsword (see below) was developed, a gentlemanly tradition evolved in these societies, parallel to the developments human society, but still drawing heavily on the classical arts. The Elven curved Longsword shrank to a size and form comparable to a Sabre, or straightned and lightned into a rapier form.
Primary Skills: Fencing (Sabre or Rapier), Main-Gauche,
Cloak.
Secondary Skills: Karate, Judo, Acrobatics
Optional Skills: any (X)Bow, Jumping, Running
Maneuvers: Attack and Fly Out, Close Combat (Rapier or Sabre), Counterattack, Disarming,
Esquive, Fleché, Feint, Hit Location (Fencing), Lunge [cut or thrust], Off-hand Weapons
Training (any), Pass [cut or thrust] (Fencing), Retain
Weapon, Sweep.
Cinematic Skills: Blind Fighting, Mental Strength, Power Blow.
Cinematic Maneuvers: Dual-Weapon Attack, Enhanced Parry (all), Enhanced Dodge, Sentiment de Fer, Sweeping Counter Parry.
Loari modern Smallsword style (16/41)
The Elven eye for the exquisite has let them to the development of the Smallsword, a very short, light, rapier-style weapon. This style combines the influences of Sel-Kai with the classical combat disciplines of the elven world. The smallsword style of fencing is very fast, but actually most effective when one hand is free for balancing maneuvers. The unarmed moves of this style are advanced compared to standard Sel-Kai fighting. The style is increasingly taught only to Elves, a result of the current political and social climate.
Primary Skills: Fencing (Smallsword), Fast-Draw (1- hd sword)
Secondary Skills: Acrobatics, Karate, Judo
Optional Skills: Crossbow, Jumping, Main-Gauche, Running
Maneuvers: Attack and Fly Out, Close Combat (Fencing), Corps-á-corps,
Disarming (Fencing or Judo),
Esquive, Fleché, Feint (Fencing), Floor
Lunge, Glide, Hit Location (Fencing), Lunge [thrust] (Fencing), Off-hand Weapons Training, Pass [cut or
thrust], Retain
Weapon, Riposte, Slip.
Cinematic Skills: Blind Fighting, Mental Strength
Cinematic Maneuvers: Enhanced Parry (Fencing), Enhanced Dodge, Flying Lunge,
Sentiment de Fer.
Weapons used: Smallsword
Elven Classical Longsword Style (14/45)
This style is included to show what kind of skills travelling and classically educated elven warriors might posses. These opponents are tough even in unarmed brawls.
Primary Skills: Fast-Draw (1-hd sword), Katana, Karate, Judo
Secondary Skills: Acrobatics, Bow, Shortsword, Staff
Optional Skills: Crossbow, Jumping, Running, any combat skill.
Maneuvers: Attack and Fly Out, Close Combat (Katana), Disarming (Judo &
Katana), Feint (Katana or Karate), Lunge
[thrust] (Katana), Off-hand Weapons Training, Retain
Weapon, Riposte (Katana), Sweep.
Cinematic Skills: Blind Fighting, Mental Strength, Power Blow.
Cinematic Maneuvers: Dual-Weapon Attack, Enhanced Dodge, Enhanced Parry (All), Hand-Clap Parry,
Whirlwind Attack (Katana or Staff).
Weapons used: Elven Longsword, Quarterstaff, Longbow, Elven Shortsword.
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Maneuvers: Attack and Fly Out, Close Combat, Corps-á-corps, Counterattack, Disarming, Esquive, Fleché, Feint, Floor Lunge, Glide, Hit Location, Lunge [cut or thrust], Off-hand Weapons Training, Pass [cut or thrust], Retain Weapon, Riposte, Slip, Stop Hit, Sweep.
Cinematic Maneuvers: Dual-Weapon Attack, Enhanced Defences, Fighting While Seated, Flying Lunge, Initial Carving, Sentiment de Fer, Sweeping Counter Parry.