Dull Roar of the Patient Predator:
Dull Roar of the Patient Predator: Created by the Tengu, Blind Kenshi, this style of Klaive dueling was given as a gift to the rest of the Hengeyokai by the master swordsman of the east. Over time it has filtered its way over to the Americas. It placed emphasis on patience, feints, looking for the right opportunity and channeling their rage into a deadly single blow. Most Changing breeds lack the patience for it, but it has taken roots among the Nuwisha, Mokole, Nagah, and the Children of Gaia, who find the meditation aspect of the style very rewarding. May be practiced armed or unarmed.
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Name: View the Battle Field
Level: Basic
Cost: 1 Rage
Duration: Instant
Flavor: Channel your constant anger, and nothing will surprise you
Effect: The Garou may spend a Rage to negate the downsides of being surprised.
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Name: Take the True Form
Level: Basic
Cost: 1 Rage
Duration: Instant
Flavor: When fighting a Shifter, the last thing you want to do is fight it in their Crinos form.
Effect: The Swordman spends a Rage and strikes their target directly in the Solar Plexus with their blade, driving the steel into the frontal cortex. After a successful strike, make a staking check. ( Simple - Medicine retests. must win 2.) if successful the target reverts to their base form. THey may transform back the following round.
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Name: Feral Lobotomy
Level: Advanced
Cost: Permanent
Duration: Permanent
Flavor: Once you have learnt to change their form. you can now directly effect their body and mind.
Effect: This gift upgrades Take the True Form. After the successful staking attempt, the swordsman can choose to revert their opponents form, or deal damage directly to one of the target’s trait categories, lowering it for the duration of the scene. Garou can heal trait damage in the same way they heal normal damage over time. Multiple applications of this power do not stack.
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Name: Beyond Human
Level: Advanced
Cost: Permanent
Duration: Permanent
Flavor: Sometimes you cannot shift to face your foe. But that does not mean you are still weak.
Effect: The shifter adds half ( round up) their Krinos trait bonus to human form. _______
Name: Yoshistune’s Initiative
Level: Master
Cost: 2 Rage per action
Duration: Instant
Flavor: All battle is decided in the span of bird’s flapping wing.
Effect: The Swordsman may activate this gift when they are spending rage for the round during combat. Instead of spending 1 rage per action they may spend 2. These actions are not taken in initiative with everyone else's. All of the actions are taken during the shifters first turn during a round. They do not need to wait for the celerity rounds. A shifter cannot combine actions taken this way, with actions normally granted through rage. They must do one or the other.
