400.99.19 Shadowdancing

An ancient art practised by Severn's Executors in the era of the second Ankyreans, Shadowdancing involves the use of a large, circular blade compatible with acrobatics, agile feints, and complex trickery. Known as the most graceful of killing arts in that bygone era, a skilled shadowdancer was rumoured to possess awe-inspiring control of their own body and the shade they cast. Whispers tell of mystical techniques that allow an Executor's shadow to act independently from the greater whole that casts it, ensuring that these fabled assassins were never alone on the battlefield. Trained in those elder days as magehunters, the first Executors hunted down renegade Ankyreans and utilised their perfect control of their own silhouettes to double their numbers and thus their odds at comparative demigods.

Modern practitioners of the martial school recognise now that its practice requires expert contortions, blinding speed, and a supernatural oneness with their shadow to achieve the greatest effects. Woe betide those that incur the wrath of those that wield the ringblade, for Executors one and all possess a grim determination to see their enemy reduced to ribbons in order to complete their mission.