Two Arts

Originating in Kashar and most notably practised by the famed warrior Lucaine Pyramides, the Two Arts is an enigmatic style of combat combining swordplay with techniques resembling the kai energy used by monks.

The two "arts" referred to are the Draw Art and the Blade Art. Vastly different to such techniques as Chivalry and Swashbuckling, for a master of the Two Arts it is easier to kill a man by drawing a sword from its sheath than by swinging a naked blade. Lucaine Pyramides is recorded as unsheathing his blade for only a second at a time in combat - killing people in single motions of his sword, the Three Moons.

Another aspect of the Two Arts involves imbuing the blade with supernatural power, similar to the lost Templar ability of Bladefire. The only ability of the Two Arts whose name has been revealed, the 'Desperate Angel' imbues one's blade with an individual's desperation, fear, anger and rage, and sends them slashing through the opponent (this technique was performed by Pyramides on the serpent Lucius Errikale in a skirmish outside the King's Tomb, during the Wars of Succession).

Though knowledge of the Two Arts was brought from the far-off land of Kashar by Lucaine Pyramides during the age of the Seleucarian Empire, they are not known to be currently practised by any guild, House or individual on Sapience.