Level 21 Werewolf Monk,
Soft Form
Born in the werewood of Perdow and finding a new home
and family with the Monk Guild after his own became
unavailable to him, Taranos has become somewhat of a
soft-style specialist. He has included the hard skills
of martial arts in his repertoire for the sake of completeness,
but it is the physical poetry of the fluid art forms
which resonate with his soul.
The irony of a stronger attacker finding his own strength
being used against him amuses him, and he sees in the
practice of the fluid forms with their emphasis on circular
motions an analogy for the cycles of nature. Just as
a forest fire can be put out by being directed towards
the streams and rivers, so an attacker's punch can be
made meaningless by being guided to empty air.
Just as that fire will exhaust itself as it lusts after
fuel, so that attacker will exhaust himself as he lusts
after violence and become defeated by his own effort.
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