Abyssal Martial Arts

   Chakra-Violating Blow

   Black-Hearted Disabling Technique

   Digging their fingers into their victim's energy centres an Abyssal can drain and enemy's life force from with their bare hands.

   Bands of black power circle around the Chosen's body, strengthen it to inhuman extremes.
   Cynically exploiting an opponent's weaknesses, the Abyssal's grip snaps bones like a vice, breaking the strength of their feeble mortal frame. Damage from a clinch attack is lethal and is crippling, affecting the victim's strength. Characters whose strength reaches 0 are unable to move except twitch and writhe helplessly. Also the sheer caloussness of the attack revolts onlookers.

   Unbinding the Mortal Coil

   The deathknight mystically guides his hands towards the nodal points of his opponent's body, sinking them into his flesh and unlocking his life's Essence.

   If the attack causes a number of levels of injury greater than the target's Essence they are killed outright.

   Rather than simply causing physical injury masters of Dark Messiah Style can slay an opponent by attacking their Essence directly.