Felarya Martial Arts

Well, we got mutliple dimensions and multiple planets connecting to Felarya. Among them, what kind of martial arts each world use? Surely Earth is not the only planet with people trained in the graceful art of punches in the face and kicks in the ass.

Depends entirely on species type. Ones with baseline demi-humans would likely be quite similar to modern earth, with perhaps more-or-less grace, focus on types of blows, etc. Peak / Super demi-human worlds would likely have much different martial art styles.

Of course. For instance, I plan on introducing a character from a part of the world Gaea (Zion, Leif, and Kenson's homeworld) that uses arts that seem similar to Shaolin, but with some psionic twists. Kenson uses a martial art that resembles a mix of standard karate and judo with a taido flair.

Remember, a realistic world wouldn't be one culture. Think of it like Earth: on one planet, we have various cultures and styles. Surely, a single world elsewhere would as well.

I've also considered introducing a shamanistic character who uses a mix of spiritualist shamanism and old South American fighting styles, like capoeira.

The most frightening idea, however, is the concept of a pred skilled in martial arts. However, they'd have to be adapted to fighting someone much, much smaller than them.

ZionAtriedes wrote:

The most frightening idea, however, is the concept of a pred skilled in martial arts. However, they'd have to be adapted to fighting someone much, much smaller than them.

It's the case of the scarlet elves
for the case of smaller prey it's just a question of accuracy, some masters in martial art can grab a fly without killing it with two of their fingers

Hmm... dridder-fu... It'd either be a really boring string of poison jabs and leg stabbing, or else a really fun mass of tangled legs and poison bitch-slaps...

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for the case of smaller prey it's just a
question of accuracy, some masters in martial art can grab a fly
without killing it with two of their fingers

I did that once by complete accident.




I'm awsm. XP

Most predator's don't really need Martial Arts when capturing prey. If the prey can defend itself from your normal blows, odds are it can dish a whole 'nother world of hurt on you even if you are a black belt of some art.

For Pred-v-Pred, there would probably be different techniques depending on which Predator you faced.

I got two preds (sort of) with martial art skills. My Mountain Harpy uses kicks for the most part, and sometimes her wings. My other naga, a male fire naga, was raised by monks, so he's pretty gifted in martial arts. He can even "kick" with his tail. I got the idea of him being good at martial arts from playing Double Dragon.

In theory many martial are based on move of animals, so in theory many hybrid predators are natural users
If some predator can become good spellcaster wh not they can become good martial artist.

naga kung fu would end badly... imagine a knoted up writhing mas of naga tails.
nekos would probably make excellent martail artist they are human sized and have legs their major advantage is the cat like reflexes.
Drdders could dish out a TON of kicks considering they have eight legs and would be good at a fighting style that centered around kicks.
as for mermaids im unsure of the ethics of under water combat...

Warrior3000 wrote:

naga kung fu would end badly... imagine a knoted up writhing mas of naga tails.
nekos would probably make excellent martail artist they are human sized and have legs their major advantage is the cat like reflexes.
Drdders could dish out a TON of kicks considering they have eight legs and would be good at a fighting style that centered around kicks.
as for mermaids im unsure of the ethics of under water combat...

I disagree, naga's could make good martial artists. If you can't kick ass, punch face instead.

Warrior3000 wrote:

naga kung fu would end badly... imagine a knoted up writhing mas of naga tails.

You forget martial art don't limit to kung fu

Big Question: Think the Felaryan inhabitants were smart enough to move beyond the classic "Dead Hand" error in martial arts (Where as the mugger / opponent is always using only one hand)?

Malahite wrote:

Big Question: Think the Felaryan inhabitants were smart enough to move beyond the classic "Dead Hand" error in martial arts (Where as the mugger / opponent is always using only one hand)?

I think depending of the race and character it can give:
Dridder:"I don't need my venom/ my web"
Harpy: "I can beat you without flying."
Fairies: "I don't need my magic."
Anko to a human: "I won't use my hands.
A silver succubus against a full armored opponent: "I need one finger."
Vivian:"I won't use my boobs."

Well the wiki stats with Nagas is that they DO use their fists in combat so i would imagine that a type of martial arts does exist.

The Naga i am designing for my story. (Naga Queen?) does know martial arts, and is almost perfect at hand to hand combat and with submission techniques.

Claire wrote:

Well the wiki stats with Nagas is that they DO use their fists in combat so i would imagine that a type of martial arts does exist.

The Naga i am designing for my story. (Naga Queen?) does know martial arts, and is almost perfect at hand to hand combat and with submission techniques.

I think there's no Naga Queen. If there would be a leader for them, it might be Guardian Trejal. Oh yeah, I designed a Fire Naga that was raised by monks at very young age. He learned martial arts from them and, over the years, he's a grand master at close combat. His style centers on quick, powerful non-stop combinations. Kinda like Ryu from Street Fighters meet Billy Lee from Double Dragon.

Sean Okotami wrote:

I think there's no Naga Queen.

Well of course there is a naga queen. In fact, I bet there are more than one. If there is a tribe or city or collection of nagas in Felarya anywhere, and it is ruled by a woman in a monarchy, then there you go. Naga Queen.

Of course, I get what you are saying, and there likely isn't a 'Queen of all Nagas Everywhere'. And even if there was, I doubt all nagas would listen to her, and many of them wouldn't even know of the likely self proclaimed Naga Queen. After all, Felarya is a big place with lots of nagas. And they don't have any method of sending messages over large distance other than carrier-harpy.

Silent_eric wrote:

Sean Okotami wrote:

I think there's no Naga Queen.

Well of course there is a naga queen. In fact, I bet there are more than one. If there is a tribe or city or collection of nagas in Felarya anywhere, and it is ruled by a woman in a monarchy, then there you go. Naga Queen.

Of course, I get what you are saying, and there likely isn't a 'Queen of all Nagas Everywhere'. And even if there was, I doubt all nagas would listen to her, and many of them wouldn't even know of the likely self proclaimed Naga Queen. After all, Felarya is a big place with lots of nagas. And they don't have any method of sending messages over large distance other than carrier-harpy.

Yeah...Carrier harpy...

"Yo, no-brain! I got a #$*@#ing message for ya from that #$#@er friend of yours. He says, 'Hey, %#@*, how the %#$@* are ya, ya $%*@ @#*$( @#$%*ing @#*)!* @(#$*@$-bag?'"

Sean Okotami wrote:

Claire wrote:

Well the wiki stats with Nagas is that they DO use their fists in combat so i would imagine that a type of martial arts does exist.

The Naga i am designing for my story. (Naga Queen?) does know martial arts, and is almost perfect at hand to hand combat and with submission techniques.

I think there's no Naga Queen. If there would be a leader for them, it might be Guardian Trejal.

There has to be some kind of leader, or something, the Reason being is becuase If lets say they go to war with dridders for example there has to be some kind of organization. Its hard for a race to go to war if there is no organization or leader, or anything like that.

As far as Guardians go, The wiki stats that there just mysterious background forces. Karbo even restated it to me, and i respect his wishes. They just protect the land from being taken over.
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Silent_eric wrote:

Sean Okotami wrote:

I think there's no Naga Queen.

Well of course there is a naga queen. In fact, I bet there are more than one. If there is a tribe or city or collection of nagas in Felarya anywhere, and it is ruled by a woman in a monarchy, then there you go. Naga Queen.

Of course, I get what you are saying, and there likely isn't a 'Queen of all Nagas Everywhere'. And even if there was, I doubt all nagas would listen to her, and many of them wouldn't even know of the likely self proclaimed Naga Queen. After all, Felarya is a big place with lots of nagas. And they don't have any method of sending messages over large distance other than carrier-harpy.

I like this theory a lot and it makes sense. I didn't know if there was one and was a little confused lol cause everyone i keep asking if theres a Naga queen have no idea. This theory explains a lot about the subject.

Claire wrote:

I like this theory a lot and it makes sense. I didn't know if there was one and was a little confused lol cause everyone i keep asking if theres a Naga queen have no idea. This theory explains a lot about the subject.

Well I"m glad you like it. ^^

I think there would be naga tribe leaders, alpha fe/males basically. And in case of a war, one that would rise to the status of a war chief...

Claire wrote:

There has to be some kind of leader, or something, the Reason being is becuase If lets say they go to war with dridders for example there has to be some kind of organization.

The anonymous war on Scientology disagrees with this. Leaders help to organize things, but they aren't necessary.

And personally, I would have expected a King instead of a Queen in a mostly-female society. Why? While having a small-portion be the 'serfs' of a system helps to prevent successful 'revolutions', it also severely limits work progress. Males would also be a rarity, and something I wouldn't expect a large number of females to be willing to 'share' (Yet the male to be just fine with such an view).

I'm sure certain regions would have tribes of nagas with a leader, but I'd avoid anything called a "naga queen". Remember the UN from "Crisis & Scarecrow"? No offense intended, but most of us really disliked that part.

I think if there's a head naga, she would only have authority over her own tribe.

Back to martial arts.

My character Mantis' father is a mausu who has extensively trained in martial arts- that is his only means of defense against Felarya's predators. Mantis might have the wings of a fairy, but he cannot use magic either. Thus, he too must rely on physical combat. It seemed natural for a being on a magical planet that does not have magical talents of their own to develop other means of defense, especially if they would be more disadvantaged than humans because of their size.

Being of this nature, Mantis actually has the advantage against Felarya's insectoid predators, since he does not have the weakness associated with most other Felaryan fairies- their dependence on magic in combat.

I rather like the idea of martial arts being developed out of necessity rather than sport. Felarya-fu, anyone?

while martial arts can help you as a prey, if your a predator, you dont really need much skill other than grabbing your opponent and eating them, thats really all it takes is a successfull grab attack, because of how stupidly invoulnerable every predators stomach is, taking hits doesnt matter any more, in RPG terms, every character has 1 hit point, better pump up that dex and put ranks into dodge,