Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-29461586-20150103071953/@comment-29461586-20150103183526

Meanwhile...

A makeshift dummy was sliced into several pieces after a gust of wind passed through it. Kitiara was busy training her swordsmanship's precision.

"Ugh." She grunted when she saw how the dummy wasn't torn into a hundred pieces. She wanted the dummy to be torn to a thousand pieces.

She still remembered what some anonymous books about swordsmanship taught her. Kitiara was trying to focus using her swordsmanship on three things.

''Leverage. Position. Advantage.'' Kitiara thought about the three words that reminded her of the book she read.

Personally for Kitiara, she hated how the teachings of the certain book emphasized emotional level-headedness and tactical know-how over the rage-fueled frenzy that she mostly relied on.

According to the book, the author noted that the swordsman that he observed demonstrated precision and elegance in his bladework, with a pin-point accurate and unpredictable offense reinforced by an almost effortless defense, all drilled and practiced to the point of being instinct.

The swordsman was also said to rely on feints to entrap his opponents, and footwork to outmaneuver, basing himself around balance and mobility. He would use these skills to work his way around opponents, deflecting and evading their attacks rather than trying to meet them head-to-head.

This was in complete contrast to Kitiara's strategy, whom preferred a more straight-forward approach in combat.

Utilizing a combination of blocks and parries, Kitiara maintained a proper foundation of defense against both ranged and melee attacks. Immediately after defending against an opponent's strike, Kitiara's combat style, which remained unnamed, followed with an attack of their own, bringing the force of the opponent's own blow against them and seeking to dominate the battle. She also placed a heavy focus on brute strength and pure power, with wide, powerful strikes and parries followed immediately by a counterattack.

She also loved to press the assault, using heavy, brutal powerful blade combinations to overpower and overwhelm an opponent's defenses while leaving them unable to counter blows at the same time.

However, Kitiara knew about her weaknesses as well. due to her constant reliance on sheer strength, many of her attacks depleted much of her magicka and stamina. An skilled tactician could easily see through this and just simply avoid her attacks and let herself wear down her stamina and magicka reserves before following up with their own attacks.

After a long while of hard thinking, Kitiara sighed. She decided that it was for the best ot learn what she read from the book. She proceeded to turn her attention to the next makeshift dummy, which was made of tied-up piles of firewood shaped into a man.

Kitiara soon began to calm her senses as well as her breathing. She began to practice how to keep a cool head as she focused on the weaknesses of her opponent, and what to do.

She decided to practice on cutting/injuring or dismembering the dummy's hands with her sword-singing as a simulation of disarming an opponent of his/her weapons.

Kitiara calmed her breathing and focused on being in a state of emotional level-eadedness like the book mentioned.

After 10 seconds of silence, she quickly unsheates her blade and performs a quick swipe that sends a gust of wind towards the dummy while keeping her emotions cool.

The dummy soon had cuts in it's hands after 3 seconds have passed. Kitiara successfully did it. She performed a ranged possible disarming technique with her sword-singing.

"Yes..!" She quietly muttered to herself. Her training was done. For now. She was tired, as she was practicing for half an hour now just to learn one form right.

Eventually, she decided to clean up her mess and started to head back for Whiterun to reward herself with a simple meal and drink after a hard day of training.