North Star Cobra

Nature: Technical Origin: Kun'lao Flourish: Lingering

A deadly and esoteric martial arts style developed by Lao Jiu, the immortal alchemist. Utilizing strange Qi techniques to alter the body and numerous pain-inflicting pressure point strikes, North Star Cobra is a martial arts style built around slowly torturing and dismantling one's opponents.

North Star Cobra's Flourish is Lingering, representing the martial arts' focus on utilizing numerous pain-focused pressure point strikes. The pain slowly builds over the battle as the North Star Cobra practicioner keeps strikig their opponent's pain points, leaving them in lingering agony.

Core Principles

There are a few key elements to those who practice North Star Cobra. These elements are central to the martial art's key concept: Slowly torturing and breaking down their foe until they completely lose the will to fight.

• Masters of Misdirection: Using Cobra Limbs, North Star Cobra practicioners can use their weapons like whips. This allows them to throw curving punches, or even lashing out with long-range chops. North Star Cobra pracitioncers can even kick down into the ground, curving their leg upwards so that it kicks up into their opponent's chin.

• Agonizing Pain: North Star Cobra teachers its users about numerous pressure points around the human body that can be struct to cause agonizing pain. This allows those who know North Star Cobra to slowly torture and break the will of those they fight.

• Snake Stance: North Star Cobra adherents utilize snake style movements, using snake strikes, misdirectional kicks, and quick rotations for dodges. North Star Cobra fighters are often calm and collection, utilizing minimal movements when in combat.

Weapons

North Star Cobra style doesn't often focus on weapon use, although some of its adherents do use weapons. Examples include:

• Butterfly Knives: North Star Cobra users often pair Cobra Limbs with the user of these small knives to strike their opponents from afar.

• Throwing Knives: Since North Star Cobra is often used for assassination jobs, its users sometimes coat knives in poisons before throwing them into targets to slowly poison them to death.

• Hidden Cane Blade: North Star Cobra is a martial art built around tricking one's opponent. Sometimes, its users will wield hidden weapons, disguising them as items like canes before drawing them to strike down opponents.