Martial Adepts

The ways of the Martial Adepts on Hearth have a long and varied history. The eight original disciplines (there being no Desert Wind) were once known to all of mankind, while others were a secret by others not of man that they kept hidden. Then came the Fall. The sublime way was one of the many knowledges lost to the world as a whole. Only within a single monestary of Saga are its practices and ways retained. The building itself was destroyed in the great quakes, and those that had occupied it were killed or narrowly escaped. One survived. A dwarven scholar on the ways of war, he was exploring the catacombs below devoted to the bodies of their greatest warriors when the quakes hit. He salvaged what he could from the wreckage and returned to his own people. There, from his vast memory and remnants he reconstructed the original ways. A glacier dwarf warrior, escorting a shipment of blue ice, was fascinated by the rebuilt temple and the instructions he read within. Returning frequently, he gained great prowess and developed a new discipline himself, that of the Bitter Edge, battle upon the ice. When human refuges began to flood the dwarven darks the Sublime Way was rekindled full force, and since many have made the pilgrimage into the Caverns of the Way. Amongst other peoples other disciplines have long been known. The Courts of Faerie have jealously kept the secret of the Dancing Leaf, though amongst the Wild Children the discipline has leaked out. Amongst the naturally psionic somnambuls there have also developed the Sleeping Goddess. The ever curious Kenku even learned to turn their knowledge towards offensive use in the way of the Open Tome. There are even whispered tales amongst the rare Harrowed that several have tamed their beast, forcing the mutations they wish and listened to its gibberings to develop maneuvers of madness.