Martial Arts

There are numerous fighting styles across the world of Shiva.
=== Thousand Kicks ===
A Forbidden Art based entirely on powerful kicks. According to legend Thousand Kicks was founded by an infamous bandit called Kong the Terror during a period of imprisonment. Considered extremely dangerous Kong lived for decades with his arms bound with only his legs free so he could walk from place to place. His restraints forced him to learn to use his legs and feet as arms and hands and he would amuse his guards by carefully eating with utensils in his toes. Meanwhile, he would develop a fighting style based solely on the use of his legs, eventually becoming so powerful that he freed himself by splitting the prison which held him in half with a single axe kick. He would later return to his old hideout killing his second in command who had betrayed him and turned him in. Reclaiming his old gang, he terrorized the nearby worlds accumulating a great deal of wealth. He would pass his new fighting style to his men and from them it would spread across the Known Universe. The Bandit would eventually die of old age in the arms of his concubines and his disciples scattered when vengeful armies came to pick his fortress clean. Since then, any time a centralized group training in the art would emerge it would be swiftly put down. Now most masters of Thousand Kicks only take a disciple or two and try to keep a low profile.
=== Infinite Arms ===
A martial art specializing in Aura Shaping. A master of Infinite Arms can control the shape of their Aura into anything they desire.
=== Ka Radi ===
A martial art founded by the Battle Sage Rahan for the express purpose of killing Immortals. It specializes in attacking the points along an opponent's Aura Network to a variety of effects. Depending on the power applied techniques can either block, open, or overload Aura Points. It requires VERY precise control, as blowback from careless application can end up harming or even killing the user. The Ultimate Technique of this style is the so-called Flash, a suicide technique which opens all points of a fighter's Aura Network, overloading it and turning themselves into a bomb to take an opponent out with them. Ka Radi was the culmination of millennia of effort on Rahan's part, but the completed art was too dangerous for anyone to attempt to learn. This remained until he took the saran reject Crow as his disciple who finally mastered the art. Crow in turn would train Mako and Cain in the art.
SENTINEL Fighting Forms