Pao Chih
As martial arts go, Pao Chih is almost totally non-athletic. Rather than focus on exercising the body, students are instructed to concentrate wholeheartedly on developing internally. Thus, they concentrate on the powers of Chi and, uniquely, on the creation/evocation of a personal Animus.
This Animus is a sort of Living Chi. An entity that takes the same shape of the character's body and moves with the character like a suit of living clothes or a shadow. Once evoked, the character can "see" through the senses of the Animus and use it as a means of performing Chi Mastery Abilities. Also, as the character grows in power (gains levels of experience), the Animus develops more and more useful features. Mang I ("Blind Will") is the school's founder, the great, great grandson of the school's founder, or some charlatan who is passing himself off as the founder. The answer varies depending on who you want to believe. In any case, he is a mysterious figure, always appearing masked and cloaked, so that his (her?) true identity remains unknown.
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