Category:Nightingale style

Silver-Voiced Nightingale style is an esoteric art, focusing on the use of the stylist’s voice in both song and warfare. Through rigorous training in breath control, circular breathing, and long, sustained chants, students of this style learn to fight with kiais, powerful shouts with the strength to kill. They are also consummate performers, singing on the battlefield to strengthen the morale of their allies and shatter that of their enemies. While the style’s appellation honors the eponymous martial artist who created it in the distant past, the full title is only remembered by those of the Exalted with memories of past lives in the First Age, or who lived through it themselves. In most dojos across Creation, it known only as Nightingale style.

Nightingale Weapons
Nightingale style attacks are made unarmed, each strike accompanied by a powerful shout. For Essence-users, the style is unique in not relying upon either weapons or unarmed strikes—instead, its practitioners learn to deliver powerful kiai attacks through the force of their voice alone, enabled through mastering the first Charm of this style.

Armor
Silver-Voiced Nightingale style is compatible with light armor.

Complementary Abilities
Performance is essential to Nightingale stylists, as many of the style’s Charms revolve around using it to take social actions in battle.

Nightingale Dojo
Void Monkey Dojo

Charms

 * Voice of the Night Bird
 * Inspiring Battle Hymn
 * Terrifying Battle Shriek
 * Silver-Voiced Nightingale Form
 * Hearing the Heart's Song
 * Harmony of Opposition Stance
 * Haunting Heart-Rending Melody
 * Resounding Songbird's Cry
 * Flashing Blade Harmony
 * Aria of Victory
 * Shattering Discord Cacophony