Editing Initiates of temperance (section)

== The styles ==

=== Crane style ===

Crane style is graceful, effortless and fluid. While technically a defensive style the power of this style comes from the enlarged striking zone granted by the user's leg span and how his constant movement and reposition of his entire body forces his opponents to stay at a certain distance where the crane user wants his opponent to be so that he can use minimal effort to deflect the strikes of his opponents while giving himself the maximal power and strength behind his own kicks to end the fight in a single decisive strike. Crane style is extremely powerful among the staff fighters as the staff doubles the effectiness of their style when their hands practically become a second pair of legs to be used against their foe and partially freeing their own legs to deliver even more devastating strikes.

=== Dragon style ===

Dragon style is a highly defensive style that focuses on buying enough time for the monk to pinpoint and exploit weaknesses of their opponents until they gain an opportunity to use that weakness and strike. Providing no opening without first letting your opponent open each time the dragon master avoids their opponent's attacks they gain ground and grow in power to the point that their single strike is enough to decide the outcome of the fight. While crane style relies on constant movement and reach to keep the foes in bay the dragon style focuses on evasion through as little as possible movement. Many opponents rejoice too early that they have managed to land a fatal blow to the dragon user just to be disappointed for a brief second by their near miss before their jawbone makes friends with their brain tissue.

=== Eagle style ===

Eagle style is all about speed and precision. User of eagle style attacks his opponents with his fists at amazing speed without losing accuracy and can deliver the tremendous strenght behind his blows into a very small area causing massive damage. This uncanny accuracy allows a master of eagle style to instantly subdued his opponents with a series of lightning fast precision nerve strikes to vital spots in their body.

=== Leopard style ===

Leopard style is powerful, firm and aggressive. Masters of this style strike directly without hesitation, utilizing speed, agility and power to shatter opponents' defenses. They are the foremost supporters of the idea behind the striking the lightning and believe that a block is wasted energy and movement that could be used to strike fast, strike hard and strike to decide the battle before it even has started. When your opponent dies in a blink of an eye there is rarely need to defend yourself against their attacks. Although if he doesn't then the leopard style will lose its power fairly rapidly and changing to some other style is a good idea.

=== Snake style ===

Snake style is a defensive style that uses both hands and feets equally to attack the user's opponents. The fighting style is very rapid and fluid and able to mold and change as is needed. Snake style user's ability to react to any attack makes him nearly impossible to hit. Also this rapidity of unexpected movements allows the snake style user to wait for perfect moment to strike, most usually right after a well-performed strike and use his own whole body to strike at the opponent. While the snake style itself might not be the most strongest of styles masters of other styles seek to master the snake style also as they wish to incorporate this fluidity of movement into their own techniques.

=== Tiger style ===

Tiger style is renown from its extensive footwork that includes for example very flashy acrobatic kicks. When a tiger user engages into a combat he is a total opposite of a leopard user who strikes immediately with everything he has. Tiger user starts slow and slowly builds up in strength and speed. Like a tiger who can track pray for days until its strength is gone, the tiger style user becomes the more dangerous the longer the fight drags on. Tiger master often use leopard style or dragon style in conjunction with the tiger style to either give them explosive start while quickly building up their strength, in essence never losing that explosive power they had in start or to build up their own strength and speed even faster by avoiding and blocking their opponents attacks with the dragon style.