So basically mage sight, or some variation on Naruto dojutsu. I can buy that, I guess. It's interesting, at least - thgouh care must as always be taken to not make it too powerful just because it's kinda cool.
At probably the same time as you were searching aout that, I was looking up martial arts... European styles are all pretty much wrestling or blades, which don't really grab me - maybe Escrima (because it also incorporates swords, and effective basics can be taught quickly) supplemented by Capoeira for footwork and lower body conditioning? Flamel, born in the 1200s, would have been around long enough that Moors would have been respected as physicians (and hence herbalists/apothecaries, playing to his specialties) and so wouldn't necesarily hold the prejudice of later eras against blacks. As an adeptus, he has reason to be interested in physical arts regardless of their origin anyway.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
At probably the same time as you were searching aout that, I was looking up martial arts... European styles are all pretty much wrestling or blades, which don't really grab me - maybe Escrima (because it also incorporates swords, and effective basics can be taught quickly) supplemented by Capoeira for footwork and lower body conditioning? Flamel, born in the 1200s, would have been around long enough that Moors would have been respected as physicians (and hence herbalists/apothecaries, playing to his specialties) and so wouldn't necesarily hold the prejudice of later eras against blacks. As an adeptus, he has reason to be interested in physical arts regardless of their origin anyway.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows