MetaSolaray

Remained silently in the rear of the guard, his eyes blinking only when the body needed it as he stood at attention, till it was time to depart.

"We continue to follow our agreement, if more Mali choose to act as fools and bring danger to their brothers with their action. They will be removed accordingly and if you wish Khel, I would gladly offer to do the runs myself, I highly doubt many terrorist acting fighters would be anywhere near a worthy fight for me if it must come to that." As he looks at the laughing man he shakes his head as he looks at him with disdain, "When I was a child of nine I knew more discipline and honor of the blade then you Child, laughing like a mad man no one will follow."

As the Trio walked out of Malinor, and towards the Oren camp Meta kept his sword at Davis's back for the entire trip, the walk going entirely uneventful for once in his loving life. As they approach the Oren war camp Meta finds himself occasionally stared at from the various minor soldiers of the Oren forces, already knowing it was most likely for a blue haired...something between two dark elves, with an obvious prisoner in the middle. Once they arrived at an officer's camp Davis was forced to his knees as Meta kept his sword at his back, adding, "A true warrior fights for peace, a monster believes that his method of peace is through more violence. I do not intend to break your spirit, just offer you the ability to walk to your punishment standing. If it was up to me, I do not break," He begins coldly as he lowers his voice to a soft, ice cold blast of a chill, "I Shatter."

As he listens to the man rant, glad to see both Khel's sword arm was not aiming for the kill and the man known as Davis would not either as he smiles darkly underneath his hood. Steady fingers wrapping around the base of his hood he begins to move it off of his face, revealing long blue bangs of silk like hair whispering into the chilled mountain air of Malinor. His eyes were of the same color and depth, staring intently at the back of the man's warm neck as he already begun to place the edge of his blade against the Man, hearing his talks of threats and words. "The roots cannot speak for the petals wishes; What you hear is not always what is the truth. The reason they wish it because there are people like you who desire actions of terroist design. The White Roses are part of the Son's of Horen's military, not only do you insult them by assuming a name of their own kind; but you also insult the peace that was very nearly destroyed by actions of your own." He pauses for a moment as he nods to Khel forgiving that he mispronounced his last name which was /Solaray/ ((:3 hehe)) but instead smirked as he added in a soft and gentle voice, "Indeed we shall Khel, I would be glad to travel with you as we transport this man. Keep it small and simple to show we do intend to follow through with our intentions." He added in a dark undertone as he looked at Davis, "Your choice if you wish to walk there with your head high, or low."

Blue eyes ever watchful in the distance, kept his gaze upon the one known as Davis as he placed signs around Malinor. Sighing a soft whisper of a tone the robed man begun a slow and careful walk upon Davis as he begun shouting at Khel. Destruction of peace and calm; this man is a danger to the innocent and should be dealt with. As he had already read both Khel and Davis's entry in full he instead dealt with reaching to his side with a silent gesture, for a moment hanging loose fingers over the hilt of both of his blades. Deciding that family was the strongest representation here he begun to withdraw the mythril blade from it's sheath as he flicks the air once with it's brilliant edge, the sound of air being forced aside loud and clear from behind Davis "You threaten the peace after the Prince Khel demanded of such; you endanger lives by acting like Valah and disrespect the desires of others. What you wish to inspire is more hate, more bloodshed, and in the end; disbalance..." His voice came as a soft whisper as he kept the blue hood over his body, as he glances carefully over at Khel in the distance, and then adds for him. "I will personally escort this man to Oren with anything else you require Khel..." ((EDIT For Khels REply above)) As he sees Khel rushing at the man from the front he goes to place the point of his blade at Davis's back as he calls out to Khel, "DO not kill him Khel; we shall offer this terrorist to Oren or Malinor, and let him be dealt with by the courts. Do not sink to his level when he has done nothing more then let his tongue speak against his own kind." He hoped Davis wouldn't be foolish enough to try to take on the both of them, and even more so with his soft speech and blue eyes that he wouldn't be forced to kill a man here and now. THough I send him easily to his death; for the peace of others.

Character Name Meta El Solaray Nicknames: Blue Hair Age: 25 Gender: Male Race: Human/Elven Status: Alive, but fighting Description Height: 5'11 Weight: 196 Body Type: Think Bruce Lee Defined Eyes: Blue Hair: BLue Skin: Pale skin Markings/Tattoos: Has a runic mark attached to his left palm, A black scar running on his left side of his cheek Health: Is very fit and healthy for his age, seemingly recovers from injuries and accidents much quicker then most anyone. Personality: is a very realistic person, wise in advise and slow to study his surroundings. He is cautious and paranoid, but is willing to aid in a heartbeat for those he considers family. He is slow to anger and will often try to find a means of a way to overcoming any situation. Conviction, honor, and dedication are his strongest sides and the very things he favors. Inventory: Runic Black Blade, Mythril Ornate Blade, Aurora's Long Bow, Malineer's Herbal Knife, Swordbreaker dagger, throwing daggers. Further Details: Life Style Alignment*: Netural Good Deity*: None Religion: None Alliance/Nation/Home The Ex-land of Silva, now his alliance is with family Job/Class: Martial Arts Teacher, Solaray Estate Head. Title(s): Head Master of the Flowing Sun Martial Arts. Profession(s): Martial Art Training Special Skill(s): Master of the Flowing Sun, Quick witted and exposure to speedy healing. Flaw(s): His very nature of tapping into other's hearts can lead him to believe someone to a point of a fault, he is also quick to anger if the right points are made and will sometimes allow his temper to gain the better of him Magic* Current Status: Arch-type: Sub-Type: Rank: Weakness(es): Strength(s): Current Spell(s): Weaponry Fighting Style: Flowing Sun Preferred Weapon: Dual Styled Weapons Favored Weapon: Ornate Mythril Family Blade (Cieloflor)and the Runic black blade gifted to him by Dormin Doomforge Archery: Aurora's Long Bow Biography Parents: Aurora and Trinity Solaray Siblings: Children: Jex and Neci Solaray Extended Family:Mellisa Soulblade (Stolistes married name) Allison Soulblade Pet(s): Zephyr the Tracking hound, Diana the Great Horned Owl. History Artwork

Cindy, it might not be...If I didn't get people saying "IS THAT ACCEPETED LORE?!" "You can't use Those stance stuff without lore "LOLNOTaccepeted youcan't do that." That and I want to add more stances (Three more later on) This was just to get the basics down. Do you think its necessary needed? If not, but you don't have any opinion on the lore then you are netural. I wish it wasn't needed so I could simply do all the work, but I want to have verified without a doubt solid in stone next time someone complains about the fighting style. EDIT NOTE: @ Peerless and everyone else :P If your character is interested in learning such a thing you would have to RPly either hear of Meta, or hear of his art from someone. All the books of the art are kept by Meta so you can't /find a book/ Through trust me, if you try you'll find Meta, he has a tendency to draw attention to himself.

And /THAT/ My friend is a tactical response, Wild Inferno is Meant to go full offensive, if your foe pressures your defenses and you need to fall back you /SHOULD/ swap stances into a more favorable one. That is the weakness of wild inferno, to force your enemy into a situation with relentless offensive attacks. Each stance has weaknesses, with this one the saying literally is "The best defense is a good offense." Now to counter stab attacks someone at Meta's level might instead of standing directly at a foe's centeral point my shift his balance to the side of one angle to cover his mid guard, or use a pivoting motion to sweep his blade across his central point of defense and then once he forces the attack away pressure the enemy. And I thank you for your neutrality and consideration of the reply to the post, I am quite happy to answer any questions about the lore to further do this with any one and all enemies and allies of the art. @ Lykos: I thank you for your immense support Lykos and I do admit the shield combat was immensely challenging for Meta who has been thinking of ways to get around such a massive defensive wall. With such a huge defense Meta was literally at odds of what to do as his blade art was heavily countered via the massive wall of defense, the best he could do was pressure your shield arm. Armor? Possible to cut through, SHield? MASSIVE WALL OF HURT :C!

Thank you, I finally get an actual response that I will be glad to answer in form. Now you're main grief is the seemingly lack of detail in the lore post and the reason for that is my belief that each student should take each stance and use it in an effective matter that benefits and inspires there characters. I do not want to have twenty little meta's running around... The main reason for this approach is the same reason two people studying the same art will have a similar method of approach concerning the teacher and etc. This is inspired and taught through the foundation art of any martial training (Studied Taekwando myself). Each student is further inspired from such practice and begins to take a personal approach, while a ready stance might be at a neutural body position, an aggressive student might add a slight hopping motion to engage and disengage into quick slides. A defensive student might find himself bending his knees slightly to allow for greater balance and firmness on position. This is further implemented in the Flowing Sun Art where each /stance/ /MUST BE DETAILED PROPERLY IN RP/. As /anyone/ who has seen me Roleplay combat before I literally will use seven lines of emotes to dictate a /single/ attack. Everything from my leg positioning to how my hips pivot, to where my blade swings, to how it swings. This is the same thing I wish to inspire to each of my students in Flowing Sun, Not by having them read a lore post about it. That I would save for either the books/guidelines that could help teach a student the art, to OOC infomation I might send privately. This lore post is to cover the basic outlines of each stance, giving a guideline for those studying to pace themselves properly and also for anyone looking for a quick read up due to feeling that someone is PGing Flowing Sun on them. PLayer A meets PLayer B who claims he is a expert at water, beginniner at fire, earth and wind. PLayer B suddenly begins to use fire to super aggresively hold off everything with pure ease, and no flaws...PLayer A quickly does a sum up and notes he is PGing the art and sends me an OOC message. I handle situiation accordingly and if a report was made would state where the person is trained and how. That is why there is no mention of the actual stances in this lore post, for both to prevent people metaing the stance by simply fighting in it without being trained by Meta, and to keep it tidy up and cleaned of infomation. If you would like here is an example of what Meta's /Fire Stance/ Done properly in detailed. As Meta stared Kais down from the other side of the sand pit; winds beginning to flow through his bangs sending them flittering through the winds. IT was nothing serious this battle, and his true blades had been set aside for the wooden ones held in his finger tips now, and still he entrusted his faith to the blades as if they were simply an extension to his arm. As Kais begun his own ready stance, Meta himself begun to ready his own show of force, knowing that this battle did not require defense, but an aggressive form of force. Taking both of his arms slowly he begins to hold them to each side of his body, his elbows slightly bending as he spread his blades to each side of his target, having the points aimed directly in the middle of Kai's chest from a distance. His knees begun to bend and unbend slightly, giving his legs a seemingly bouncing motion as his muscles seemed to relax, ease...and then burn with a fiery intensity. Note of Why this is Fire Stance, Aggression: Both blades are away from central point of defense, instead taking on different angles of pressuring enemy and also to utelize offense against surronding foes. (Middle of your body = NOt defending your sides. 2: Two pronged attack, Enemy has one blade, you attack one side, and then attack the other, then as they go to block that ...you attack the other side, a /wild inferno/ of blows from various angles. Meant to overwhelm and pressure a foe. 3: Loose limbs, quick motions, quick attacks, harder to hold if your aggression DOES NOT OVERPOWER YOUR FOES IE: If You're position gets overwhelmed this stance WILL NOT DO WELL to keep you where you wish to be. 4: Bending and unbending of knee, flexibilty into other stances, motion into quick dashes and short movements, slight bent to sacrifice long distance speed but gain quick burst motion, great for offenisve control in a short area. 5: Blades focus on central point of foe, this allows greater amount of options, clever strikes, X-Strikes, Crescent moon strikes. By not showing off where he is going to hit, his blades have more options. This is why I avoided detailing it here, and I wonder if this is what you were seeking to see Spam. This is the standard I would hold for /ALL/ masters, and people training in the art would be expected to be detailed about the martial arts and emote it properly. "MEta takes on WIld Inferno, and then stabs randomly attempting to get through The guard's defenses." /WILL/ not be considered proper FLowing Sun. "As Meta assumes the wild inferno stance, his swords held to his sides as he centerizes them towards Kais. His knees tighting slightly as he begins to relax his muscles, and focus his entire being on overwhelming Kais's position. Then, with the sound of the gong he rushes forward towards Kais by pounding heavily off the ground with a powerful thurst off his left leg, his body motioning above the ground (In a short dash...not flying here...COlorful language people.) as he brings his right handed blade suddenly shrieking through the air; seemingly going to strike at Kai's skull when the moment it would appear to Meta that Kais would bring up his blade to defend he brings his blade circling around him in a crescent moon style strike, aiming to sweep instead at his ankles from the right. At the same time Meta uses the hip motion of the crescent moon strike, to sweep his left handed blade across Kais's hopefully exposed right rib cage, aiming to force him to either taking blows he didn't desire, or into a retreat... TO sum this up: Meta took on wild inferno, dashed at Kais then swept at Kais's ankle and sides...with a fake attack towards his skull. I believe you're fine Kais, for the fact Meta's art is meant to be taught to others and unforunately I have been getting /alot/ of personal grief and people saying "Is this accepeted lore" when I talk about the martial arts. I have always gone through detail to detail it....even got some bad lip about how long my emotes are :P @TornadoWatch cuzimtolazytoquoteyou.jpeg Indeed, Sadly people do assume I do anime stuff more then realisitic, which in reality...I'll admit sometimes I have a little fun like a fight with Chet and Artemis, I was Roleplaying being a ninja doing ninjay things due to ninja trianing in the tree tops...while not even directly fighting...because it's funny. With really close friends I go over the top to be silly and have fun, sometimes pulling of silly moves for showmanship sake and to add fun to the RP. Or the sake of personal amusement. IN a seroius fight I do not pull out weird anime moves...and actually I have a story about a view of me "Jumping through the air" when I later proved I did no such thing...To protect the accuser name and the other person I will be naming the accuser "Bob" and the person fighting "Jeff" Jeff is a friend of Meta's wife, and even knew Meta icly and I knew Jeff Oocly. Jeff as a fighter as well wanted to do a quick sparring match with Meta, and as I was to lazy to go get any wooden weapons I decided to simply go at it as I usually do with real weapons, no real injuries that will last beyond an elven hour at most. The fight starts with Jeff using a war hammer and Meta using his usual dual style combat stances. Meta shifts to Earth, assuming Jeff would attack and he was going to try to lock the /HANDLE/ of the warhammer, near his hands or under the heavy head, trying to fight the hammer itself was sucidial. Unforunately for Meta this didn't seem the case as he kept his distance and Meta went onto the offensive, NOw taking Dance of the gale he darted much closer into the weapons range, then dashed out...where Jeff threw the hammer at Meta who already in the /agility/ stance of the art stepped aside and got one of his blades knocked out of his hand. Here Jeff attempted a full on frontal assault by leaping at Meta, as Meta side stepped around Jeff, slashing at his ankles and holding his own unarmed hand up ready to defend himself. THe attack was a full success as metal met flesh and Jeff lost the sparring with Meta only being disarmed. WE laughed about it OOCLY and enjoyed the fight :P WE knew each other... Bob, somehow misunderstood this as thinking I had Meta flying through the air, jumping through it to attack Jeff. Which Jeff could vouch for me that at no point did Meta ever leap into the air unreasonably, as the most he did was a side dash. This sadly carried over into the forums where people begun calling me out for how I fight anime style, yet most of the people who /DO/ make these claim have /never/ fought against me, out of most of them. Tentoa is the only one I believe who has, and I admit I made some mistakes, but who hasn't in their magic rp, torture rp, slave rp, rp in general :/ I love anime and it inspires me, but my basis of the art is actually in game series such as DMC, Musashi books with elements, and other various forms of martial training. It is personally insulting to me that people take such beliefs on me and do not come to talk to me, as I have proven time and time again, I will talk to you and discuss your issues, and if I cannot agree with your side, I will respectfully after closing my remark agree to disagree. Also Now with Spamshock making his post that makes /seven/ people who fully disagree with the art who have no posts throughout the topic who I would kindly request them to make a post saying why they are against the art so I can make either a reply or fix the art to better suit them. THis lore is very important to Meta and myself to being fully accomplished.

Meta doesn't actively seek fights against armored men, does he fear them? No...and /actual fights/ ...Hmmm unno...I've never actually have it was either someone who hid behind armor who I ROFLstomped because RPly Meta was vastly on another plane of skill, or Meta was in and out and ran. He has not floored someone of equal skill that I am aware of of someone in armor. Do I think He can? Yes, Is he going to run around town and do it all day? No. Edit: MOre votes of denial, and yet I don't see a /single/ post...I would hate to see posts of hate for the lore due to personal preference. If this continues I might just end up taking down the poll to focus on people who are willing to truly commit ideas to the lore.

As you have withdrawn your support I'd like to see your post and recommandations from the lore. You have only had two fights against me, and the only one to be a victory was a two on one fight. Furthermore many of the beliefs of /I never lose/ have been unfounded and biased. I have lost, Lost a few klomps, lost against another man in a long and well fought Roleplay fight we both got a great amount of fun to. I even have lost to your alchemy and have always enjoyed it and favored it. So far I have /FOUR/ do not want nor need votes, yet I do not see a single post by any of them saying why they are against the art so fondly and strongly. I am open to suggestions of the art as Tentoa, it is not about Meta winning or losing, I have always made Meta a challenge to overcome, and have never forced a victory on anyone. I do not power emote and whenever I am asked to explain things I stop and gladly explain in good nature. Many of the people who have had ill thoughts of Meta (Kalenz/Connor) I sat down respectfully with them in private discussion and talked it out with them. This lore I wish to push forward it the basis of helping others, not just getting some godly fighting style or super weapon for myself. Like the Lux blade which is now MIA/unused, it was intended for singular use that got used on Evark as well and was only for one character. This is something I wish to share and expand, explore and learn. If you believe it needs heavy work, tell me where so I can have healthy debate on it. ((Also updating people who are learning it later.)) EDIT: So I have 6 unfavorable posts, yet I see very little in the terms of "This is how it's wrong, this is how you fix it." Or, "This is why it's not needed etc. etc." The poll was for a quick recap of the thread, yet I am tempted to simply take it down for the fact I get votes, with no feedback. If I worked to produce a detailed reply to everyone who has posted in this thread, and worked the hours to write the lore page. I simply ask if you are against it, you speak your mind. Tentoa as one of my longest advisories, you as Malineer had a lot of force and control over Meta over the years by indirect combat, something Meta was ill prepared to handle at many points and was saved by other matters and friends. As I favor and respect your alchemy I do not /ever/ expect Meta to beat Malineer in a potion battle, /ever/ Akal...I have /NEVER/ won in a straight up one on one, the only time they had one? They fought to a draw, and the one move you came back to me /weeks/ later about and said it was animeish...did nothing to win the fight and was me having fun with a bit of detail (Which I might add I even told you if Akal would have rushed while Meta was being fancy...I would have said HELL YEAH GO AHEAD :D) Communication, I literally am /begging/ people to say something to listen. People aren't talking. EDIT 2.0: Why did your opinion change if you've only seen me fight twice? A third time you just threw a punch at Meta...and remember when you fought Rosso? Yeah...Before that you threw a punch at MEta and it rocked his world :/ Also the number of /Life or Death/ fights that I've had since Akal was a threat has lowered, more political bull crap and less sword bat. Yet your opinion has changed so drastically that I don't seem to lose, the art has weaknesses, the most obvious one I am willing to give... Armor... We can't wear it and use the art at 100%...And if a blow getes in...it's going to hurt...I got my arm torn to shreds in a fight against an orc...you know what happened to me? Umm...that arm remained torn to shreds for three RL hours...till a Cleric sat on my ass and healed me...and no I didn't /flow stance it and ignores it/ I dragged that limp limb like a rag doll...and how many people RP their injuries? So many times people get slashed at their ankles or legs...and still manage to run around dodge roll and move normally