Fěnsuìle {Crushing Fang}
"There is more than one way to crush an enemy without breaking a bone, leaving a bruise, or the need of brute force. With the mind to kill and the intimate knowledge of the body, you can kill without wasting a drop of their foul blood." - Anonymous
As the most widely practiced style among Idolasian assassins, Fěnsuìle is considered a deadly and fearsome form of martial art. It is regarded as a dynamic fighting form as it develops anaerobic, powerful techniques as well as developing speed and maneuverability. To compliment that, strength and power are demonstrated with more flowing motions.
Those who progress in this killing form, develop a much more fluid style that incorporates grappling, throwing and some crippling techniques. Over the arcs of study in this style, many masters began to create a simpler system that combined the ideas and patterns of predatory creatures which imitate their movements in combat. These systems were thus turned into four styles of this fighting form;
The Wyrm of the West, Tiger of the East, Hawk of the North, & Basilisk of the South
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Though these tyles are all different in their own unique way, they all have one thing in common, the use and targeting of pressure points. As they grow in the art of Fěnsuìle, they will begin to compile an understanding on the pressure points within one's own body and turn those point against their target, which could cripple/disorient/or even kill.
The Wyrm of the West Style
The Wyrm of the West Style
The Tiger of the East Style
The Tiger of the East Style is a brutal martial art known for its rigid hand weapons, incredible stopping power, and sheer ferocity. Those that choose this form of Fěnsuìle will gain the ability to power through the strongest defenses, kill with a single strike or grip, and can even tear out the throat of an opponent as they become masters of the style. This style trains to the highest levels all of the stealth, ambush, and guerrilla tactics of a true tiger. Practitioners become the embodiment of a tigers ability to camouflage, stalk, and ambush.
The Hawk of the North Style
The Hawk of the North Style is a graceful martial art known for its fluid hand weapons, peerless balance, and devastating strikes. Those that are practitioners of this style find that it is also a very aggressive and fast moving attack style that is intimidating and unrelenting. If one were to imagine from their experience the speed and intensity of bird attacks, then they would get the general style of this martial art. This style also demonstrates the highest levels of hand and leg toughening, consisting of elegantly specialized kicks & strikes designed to break the feet, legs, ribs, groin, and destroy the organs of opponents. What makes this style lethal as it is elegant is that practitioners fight with an intelligent predatory mind that can seem almost cruel. They have an understanding and development of so many techniques mixed with their ambition and power to make them successful and accomplished warriors and team leaders. Hawk practitioners fight in a position of balance between the other styles and fluctuate between them seamlessly in their techniques. One moment they may be as intense and aggressive as those of the Tiger, the next as emotionless and patient as those of the Snake, or as dominating and intimidating as the Wyrm.
The Basilisk of the South Style
The Basilisk Style fighting is a deadly martial art known for its toughened hand weapons, blinding speed, and incredible accuracy. Unlike the other three forms in this combat form, this one is by far the fastest and most deadly of them all, but still have the stopping power of the Tiger, the control of the Dragon, and the grace of the Eagle. One of the defining characteristics of this form is a massive system of powerful palm strikes, combat grappling, chokes, strangles, joint attacks, and throws. This extremely fast-moving martial art style specializes in fast fingertip strikes and powerful blade hand hits to vital pressure points. Masters of this art are experts of high speed bobbing, weaving, and evasive maneuvers to get into striking range and spend many hours training to evade and counter the maneuvers of other fighters they encounter. As they come to master this path, they gain the ability to fight any size or type of fighter they encounter, both armed an unarmed. The Basilisk of the South Style covers all realms of combat from grappling & ground-fighting to leaping and running.
Novice: 0-25
Competent: 26-50
Expert: 51-75
Master: 76-100
Credit: Dosan Saito