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The Art of Athiyk'Velve
Written by Lo'milmar Tinnerai
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A copy of this document can be found in the Ultrinnan library, and another in Melee-Magthere.


As I write the books of the Athiyk'Velve , I will share to those who seek knowledge, and to better their abilities as not only as an warrior, but also a living being. I should note, that these teachings demand great discpline as well as great responsibility to the body, mind, and spirit.

Athiyk'Velve, in common -SpiritBlade-, is the art of being both wielder and weapon. –Weaponmastery- is also often used to describe the art of Athiyk'Velve.

The Blade, in a sense is a living being, who has its own spirit, its own personalty, as it is made of the fundamentals of the earth. It has an essence of its own that can express its own views and wants to the wielder.

It is known that all things in this world have an essence of energy of its own, granted by our true Lolth. Fire, water, wind or earth are essences made by Lolth herself, if understanding and communicating to them, you are able to share the knowledge they contain, as well as express their desires and needs.
As we use the elements for our own desires, the elements equally have desires of their own that we, at the best of our abilities, should abide and respect in return, and thus respect what Lolth has given us.

Athiyk’Velve places emphasis on having great respect to one’s weapons, such as tending to the needs of keeping them sharp, cleaning them, basic common essential to prevent the weapon from looking and feeling tarnished without getting proper care. A true warrior: a Athiyk'Velve sargtlin cleans and properly takes care of their weapon(s), only then in return the blade will honor them and in return to guide them to victory at the best of the blades ability.

The weapon and its wielder are one; The wielder is not a Athiyk'Velve sargtlin if he’s not capable of understanding and communicating with the essences of the weapon that he is using.
Though the essences fully acknowledge their limitations, and are none the less loyal, along with being greatful of being the special care of a warior, one that takes care of his weapons. For the simple matter that they are treated and cared for, they fully accept that one day they will be replaced by a more advanced weapon than them, as they are all shaped by Lolth.


Balance

In Athiyk'Velve balance is one of the most important aspects, without striving for balance, one's ability can become skewed, ultimately having their skills be rendered flawed and ineffective. One must always strive to balance Khel (-body-; The art of swordplay), Shar (-mind-) and Athiyk (-spirit-) in an equal manner. Only then you’ll be able to master Athiyk’velve.

Athiyk’velve favors the usage of Ki that flows through out the world, granted by Lolth. One can noly master this art if he respects the uses of the flow of Ki of the outerplane. Overabusing Ki usage comes with the risk that Khel, Shar and Athiyk aren’t in balance anymore. What means that the Ki-user can be damaged by the ethernal plane. Such damage can run from short term illness of lack of body movement and fuctions, to even death.

The Balance of their weapon is important as well, showing little respect to ones weapon, can in turn betray the user when they need their weapon most.


Atliyk’velve meditation methods

Basic meditation methods are used to focus your skills on learning the language of the earth, as well as the basic excercises of learning how to control your Ki-energy. The disciplined method of breathing to help circulate the flow of Ki within ones body, a deep inhale to gather, with a rough exhale to disperse the Ki, holding one's breath for a period of time, also strengthens one's ability to sustain large amounts of Ki, to let it eventually build up and gain further energy on its own. This method also regulates one's body incase they mistakenly gather too much Ki for their own well being, for to stablize themselves by holding their breath, then to slowly exhale to expell any excess KI energy from there body until reaching normal levels.

Advanced Meditation determines if the user has ample knowledge of controlling Ki in their bodies. Advance Meditation trains the user the ability to manipulate ki into a variety of uses, from tranferring into devastating attacks, to improve the body in a form of regaining or regeneration, heighten senses and feeling vibrations within the etheral plane, many other uses can be unlocked by using these training regime.
Unlike Basic Meditation, which requires the user to sit, legs folded in a traditional manner. Advanced Meditation can be performed at any gesture, standing up or sitting down, sometimes if favored, with their weapon(s) at hand to further enhance their meditation and discpline.


Athiyk’velve Body training

Training the Body is essential, most important weigh training techniques to build muscle mass and mobility, The common use for such training would be weigh bags, such weight bags range from 200, 500, to even 800 pounds each, using a mixture of Ki and physcial strength is very important when performing such excercises, esspecially if such weighs are 4 to 5x your normal weight. Thus you have to control the Advanced Meditation first.


Athiyk’velve swordplay

Physical swordsmanship or weapon tactics vary depending on background, honing their skills is a must. As your fighting skills increase depending on your experience and sword training, so should your mind and spirit training. Again as swordsmanship varies depending on the users background, the Default swordplay for Athiyk’Velve is the longsword, being the most balance towards effenciency, weight, and grace. However other weapons can be used that suits the needs of the user; the comfortable needs of the user is of course always important for that it further excels the importance of balance.

"Unite with the essence of your blade, forge your mind and make it strong, for a blade breaks as fast as it's wielder"

Lo’milmar Tinnerai,
Draada’Quarthin of the melee Magthere,
Follower of the Athiyk’Velve Art.

((In addition to Gondor (Lo'milmar), credit should go to Zien E'lie: alias ‘Beanpie’ of 3kds.))