Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: Teräs Käsi: History Written by the Community
Atama
Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:41 pm
#27
I like all the stuff except the Chaos Crew fan fiction. In particular the Arden Lyn info was pretty cool.
KenjiTokugawa
Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:25 am
#28
Here is something I tried to piece together as a possible history/origin of the TK special abilities
Origins of the Teras Kasi Forms
Idea Overview
While the basic idea of power from oneself is central to the Teras Kasi art, it's forms and movements are a compilation of the various techniques developed and used by masters in the Order.
Steel Hands (/unarmedHit1)
This technique was honed and refined by the first Teras Kasi practioners on the planet of Bunduki over 4000 years ago. The Teras Kasi artist will channel their life force into their hands and feet for a brief moment, making them literally as hard as steel. Masters of this technique are said to be able to punch through a slab of granite with ease.
Screaming Squill (/unarmedStun1)
When the first Teras Kasi Masters returned to Bunduki after hunting corrupt jedi, they brought back many new techniques as well. One of these new techniques was developed by a monk of the Order who had spent considerable time in the Tatooine waste lands. The Sand people did not take kindly to this stranger who had entered their lands without permission and attacked the monk on sight. The monk, understanding that the sand people were only protecting what was theirs, developed this technique to stun the assailents long enough to escape. Like the squills after which this technique is named, the monk would deliver many light blows in such rapid succession that the target was usually left dazed and slightly bruised.
Aryx Slash (/unarmedBlind1)
The Aryx bird of Cerea (Ki-Adi-Mundi's home planet) will attack it's prey by pecking at it with it's huge beak. This movement and form was mimicked by a Teras Kasi master while he was held captive by a Dark side force adept deep in the Cerean forests. The force adept was gloating over how easy it had been to capture the Teras Kasi master who had been tracking him. With both his hands and feet bound to prevent the master from attacking the servant of the dark side, the force adept leaned in close to describe the excrutiating details of how he was going to disembowl the Teras Kasi master. This was when the master headbutt him with such force that it crushed the force adept's face.
Leaping Veermok (/unarmedSpinAttack1)
The Leaping Veermoks are very solitary creatures that often must defend themselves against numerous opponents. These gorilla-like creatures will swing there large claws at their enemies, obilterating them all with sheer power. This was the inspiration for the Leaping Veermok technique. The Teras Kasi practioner will actually force his/her body to move faster than what should be possible, thus allowing them to hit every opponent in close proximity. This technique is usually used to gauge a practioner's advancement as it requires considerable concentration to accomplish. Once a Teras Kasi artist has mastered this technique, they usually deemed ready to handle the mental strain of the more powerful Teras Kasi forms and movements.
Gorax Smash (/unarmedHit2)
Unlike most other Teras Kasi techniques, the Gorax Smash was not acually inspired by the Gorax on the Forest Moon of Endor. The name itself is just a bad translation of it's full meaning into Galatic Basic. The real name of the technique literally means "Crippling the Giant" Scholars in the order have debated whether this refers to the Jedi Council, or an actual giant-type creature that may have resided on Palawa. In any case, the technique is basically an amplification of the original "Steel Hands" done at greater speeds.
Sleeping Krayt (/unarmedKnockDown1)
The second technique brought back by the monk on Tatooine was inspired by the tail of a sleeping Krayt dragon. The monk was camped out one night on the Eastern Dune Sea when a violent sandstorm came up out of nowhere. He quickly sought shetler in a nearby cave. The cave, however, was not as empty as the monk thought. A loud rumbling sound echoed thought the dark cavern, and the monk quickly turned on his personal light. He found himself staring at the giant sleeping lizard's incoming tail. It knocked the monk off of his feet and across the rocky floor. Fearing that any sound might awake the slumbering beast, the monk spent the duration of that sandstorm in quiet vigilence at the mouth of the cave.
Gundark Slap (/unarmedDizzy1)
The four armed gundarks are known to squash the heads of their prey while in the midst of bloodlust fever. While some practioner's have been known to duplicate the same effect while using this technique, it is generally seen by the Order to be a gross misuse of power and is as such a punishable offense.
Rancor Rising (/unarmedBodyHit1)
(This is actually a stance described in Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, so I have no idea what to write here.)
Shenbit Bonecrusher (/unarmedCombo1)
The Shenbit Bonecrusher is a vicious reptile that lives on Barab I. It is a constrictor type snake that will coil around it's prey so tight that it breaks bones. The Shenbit Bonecrusher Blow has the same effect. The Teras Kasi practicioner will channel just enough power into their strike that it will break bones but nothing else. The victim will look exactly the same on the outside, but they will suffer massive internal damage. It is another variation on the "Steel hands" technique that requires more subtle control on the part of the practicioner.
Gronda Stomp (/unarmedLegHit1)
While on Corellia meditating in the planets lush savannahs, a Teras Kasi Monk witnessed something that he would later turn into a devastating Teras Kasi technique. A pack of wrix were circling a Mother Gronda and her babies, ready to lunge in for the kill. However just as the lead of the pack rushed in to start the feeding frenzy, the mother gronda whipped her back end around whilst at the same time elevating it, and then came down so fast and hard on the wrix that the ground literally shook for a mile. This move by the gronda scared off the rest of the pack, and the Grondas were able to graze in peace. The monk later turned this into a move wherein a Teras Kasi Practitioner switches his foot stance opposite of his original and diagonally stomps with force granted from a survival instinct on his targets lower extremeties.
Dancing Dragonsnake (/unarmedSpinAttack2)
One of the original Followers of Palawa was named Forraderi. Unlike most of her peers in the Order, she contended that fluid movement and speed were more essential than sheer power in combat. It is said that she stayed in the temple in Aslaja for a year, practicing day and night without food or rest to improve her speed and balance. She is credited for developing the Teras Kasi stance that bears her name as well as opening the xenophobic order to new ideas.
When Dancing Dragonsnake is executed properly, the Teras Kasi artist seems to strike many opponents instantaneously. The Teras Kasi artist is moving with such speed that the normal eye can only pickup the some of the movements being done. The Teras Kasi artist will strike one opponent with their hand while simultaneously hitting another with their foot.
Charging Wampa (/unarmedKnockDown2)
Charging Wampa (/unarmedKnockDown2)
A traveling Teras Kasi master once set down on a remote planet known as Hoth to test the limits of his body. He traveled with a small group of survivalists, and despite their insistence he wore nothing but his robes. The group was to spend one night on the planet.
They made camp in a cave that evening believing it to be unoccupied, as their sensors gave no signs of life. They had never heard of the wampa ice creature, whose body gives off so little heat that they are invisible to most sensors. The party's sleep was interrupted by a large, shaggy white creature that charged through the group knocking over anyone who resisted it. Even the Teras Kasi master could not keep on his feet. From deeper in the cave they heard more creatures coming.
The group fled for their lives, but two of the survivalists were lost. On the flight away from Hoth, the Teras Kasi master meditated on what he had learned from the wampa. Ferocity, when properly utilized, can leave your opponent off-balance. From that he developed the Charging Wampa technique, which can bowl over even the strongest opponent.
Forraderi Death Weave (/unarmedCombo2)
Not all who came to Bunduki were peaceful travelers. Some wanted learn the secrets of the order in an effort subjegate the weak. Forraderi met one such person.
She was in the twilight of her life when a mysterious individual came to the temple to study under the one of the original masters of the Teras Kasi art. She took the man under her wing and began to teach him the ways of the Teras Kasi and their history. The student excelled under her tutelage and it was not long until he had learned everything she could teach him. However, the student was not satified. There was one technique that the old master had not shown him, the death weave.
The death weave was something that Forraderi had supposedly developed while training in the temple. Some of her pupils said she could hit a solid slab of rock so fast and so many times that it would be nothing but small pebbles once she was finished. When asked why she did not the young man this technique, she simply laughed and said that she had no idea what he was talking about. But, the student wouldnot let it go.
Eventually, the student grew so impatient with his master's apparent indifference that he demanded that she teach him this legendary technique. Forraderi replied that he should be thankful that she even decided to train a jedi and should let this matter die. The student, angry that his true identity was known, drew a concealed lightsaber from his robe and swung at her. Forraderi sprung into her fighting stance and said "Very well, Jedi. Prepare yourself for your final lesson." The Jedi raised his saber above his head and unleashed a vicious down swing towards his master's head. But the blow never reached it's target. Forraderi lashed out at the jedi's arms and legs, breaking the bones. The jedi reeled back as his legs gave way. Forraderi then drove her fist into the falling jedi's skull, crushing it before he hit the ground.
Nexu Grin (/unarmedHeadHit1)
The Nexu is a creature that is native to the forests of the planet Cholganna. The Nexu is an extremley effective and malicious predator, making it an ideal creature to export off planets for various reasons (the Geonosians used a Nexu to try to kill Anakin, Padme and Obi-Wan on geonosis). Due to the aforementioned export, the Nexu's various stalking, and killing habits have been observed and studied carefully by many of the top scientists in the galaxy. The "Nexu Grin" is the nickname of the attack that occurs just as the nexu begins to open their gaping maw, which resembles a very evil and malicious (and teethy) grin. The Nexu will begin to grin (he is actually opening his mandibles to begin to eat their victim), and then whip their forked, prehensile tail around their body and hit their victim directly in the face to either completley knock unconcious, or outright kill their intended victim.
A Teras Kasi Master who had ship problems was forced to land on Cholganna and was one of the first beings to ever actually kill a Nexu. He was forced to set his ship down in the forest (the planet does not have a very hospitable starport, if any at all), and effect repairs while all the while being observed by a Nexu. At night when he was sleeping in his ship, the Nexu tore a hole in the side of his ship, and charged in towards his "hapless" victim. The Teras Kasi Master was not surprised for long by this intrusion, and managed to both dodge the Nexu's initial "grin", and counterattack with a Sleeping Krayt followed by a Spitting Rawl, leaving the creature dead. The master eventually was able to get off planet, however his experience with the Nexu was the birth of a Teras Kasi Teqnique that he created later on Bunduki.
The Teqnique involves a Teras Kasi Practitioner focusing their entire being into their left fist, and bringing their right hand in towards the body, gathering the users life force, and then powering their fist with the right hand towards their opponents head to deliver a strike that can incapacitate, or even kill their opponent in one swift strike.
Spitting Rawl (/unarmedHit3)
A spitting rawl is a snake. It strikes quickly and with pinpoint accuracy, leaving its prey dead before it hits the ground. Before it strikes its body is coiled into a tight spring, then it untwists and leaps at its prey.
While performing a Spitting Rawl, the Teras Kasi artist imitates the actions of the deadly snake, spinning his body and leaping in the air, striking multiple times and leaving his opponent stone dead. It is the deadliest of all Teras Kasi techniques known.
Edit: added Atama'sideas
Edit: added more descriptions
Edit: added OmniReaperr's ideas
Message Edited by KenjiTokugawa on 12-10-2004 03:07 PM
atone48732
Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:45 am
#29
good stuff indeed!!!
I am goin through TKA yet again(new char on the same server)
The_Mandalorian316
Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:18 am
#30
damn, what could unarmed hit3 be? lol its so cool...
The_Mandalorian316
Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:24 pm
#31
konik wrote:
Citing: http://www.lucasarts.com/products/masters/
Canonical Value: Video Game
The Galactic Empire is sent reeling from the loss of the Death Star. The Emperor has ordered swift and severe retribution against the Rebel Alliance. His subversive and covert method of hurting the Alliance: the feared and effective young assassin, Arden Lyn. A student of an ancient and almost forgotten fighting art known as teräs käsi. Arden is a clever threat. Under the watchful eye of Darth Vader, Arden Lyn must terminate key members of the Rebel Alliance and thus ease the pain of the Empire's loss. The Alliance learns of this plan and decides to meet the challenge head-on.
Ok, so the focus is to straighten out just how Teras Kasi is spread, i'd think. Through this confrontation, how did Teras Kasi become so popularly known.
The_Mandalorian316
Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:35 pm
#33
thats pretty wild Atama, good job.
Were Wampas only from Hoth? I remember in Shadows of The Empire, there was a tatooine Wampa for some odd reason....
Atama
Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:58 am
#34
Charging Wampa (/unarmedKnockDown2)
A traveling Teras Kasi master once set down on a remote planet known as Hoth to test the limits of his body. He traveled with a small group of survivalists, and despite their insistence he wore nothing but his robes. The group was to spend one night on the planet.
They made camp in a cave that evening believing it to be unoccupied, as their sensors gave no signs of life. They had never heard of the wampa ice creature, whose body gives off so little heat that they are invisible to most sensors. The party's sleep was interrupted by a large, shaggy white creature that charged through the group knocking over anyone who resisted it. Even the Teras Kasi master could not keep on his feet. From deeper in the cave they heard more creatures coming.
The group fled for their lives, but two of the survivalists were lost. On the flight away from Hoth, the Teras Kasi master meditated on what he had learned from the wampa. Ferocity, when properly utilized, can leave your opponent off-balance. From that he developed the Charging Wampa technique, which can bowl over even the strongest opponent.
Spitting Rawl (/unarmedHit3)
A spitting rawl is a snake. It strikes quickly and with pinpoint accuracy, leaving its prey dead before it hits the ground. Before it strikes its body is coiled into a tight spring, then it untwists and leaps at its prey.
While performing a Spitting Rawl, the Teras Kasi artist imitates the actions of the deadly snake, spinning his body and leaping in the air, striking multiple times and leaving his opponent stone dead. It is the deadliest of all Teras Kasi techniques known.
A traveling Teras Kasi master once set down on a remote planet known as Hoth to test the limits of his body. He traveled with a small group of survivalists, and despite their insistence he wore nothing but his robes. The group was to spend one night on the planet.
They made camp in a cave that evening believing it to be unoccupied, as their sensors gave no signs of life. They had never heard of the wampa ice creature, whose body gives off so little heat that they are invisible to most sensors. The party's sleep was interrupted by a large, shaggy white creature that charged through the group knocking over anyone who resisted it. Even the Teras Kasi master could not keep on his feet. From deeper in the cave they heard more creatures coming.
The group fled for their lives, but two of the survivalists were lost. On the flight away from Hoth, the Teras Kasi master meditated on what he had learned from the wampa. Ferocity, when properly utilized, can leave your opponent off-balance. From that he developed the Charging Wampa technique, which can bowl over even the strongest opponent.
Spitting Rawl (/unarmedHit3)
A spitting rawl is a snake. It strikes quickly and with pinpoint accuracy, leaving its prey dead before it hits the ground. Before it strikes its body is coiled into a tight spring, then it untwists and leaps at its prey.
While performing a Spitting Rawl, the Teras Kasi artist imitates the actions of the deadly snake, spinning his body and leaping in the air, striking multiple times and leaving his opponent stone dead. It is the deadliest of all Teras Kasi techniques known.
KenjiTokugawa
Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:00 am
#35
I had a thought about this. While the secrets of the original Teras Kasi forms may reside with the Followers of Palawa on Bunduki, the students who studied there were probably able to set up their own school any place that they wished. The students could teach people what they had learned, but it would only be an interpretation of the original art. Not to say that it can't be just as good as the original Teras Kasi, it would just be slighty different.
The_Mandalorian316 wrote:
how did Teras Kasi become so popularly known.
Ryutek
Wed Dec 01, 2004 7:47 am
#36
You know, other Professions pride themselves on having such great Communities here, but I think this really shows the heart of ours 
Excellent work (though I do think konik has too much time on his hands 
).
Excellent work (though I do think konik has too much time on his hands ).
Atama
Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:17 pm
#37
In the Starwars.com databank it only mentions them being on Hoth, so I tailored the story to what they had there.
If there was a wampa on Tatooine it wouldn't be the same, since the wampa's full name is "wampa ice creature". Tatooine barely has water, let alone ice. It might be like the cu pa, which is a desert species similar to a tauntaun.
If there was a wampa on Tatooine it wouldn't be the same, since the wampa's full name is "wampa ice creature". Tatooine barely has water, let alone ice. It might be like the cu pa, which is a desert species similar to a tauntaun.
KenjiTokugawa
Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:56 pm
#38
konik wrote:
Citing: http://www.holonetnews.com/55/sports/1359_1.html
Canonical Value: Lucasfilm Promotional material
Jedi Knight Joclad Danva loses in Teras Kasi to Phow Ji. (Exact date of report via HoloNet
News: 13:5:9, i.e. 9 Nelona 22 BBY)
Jedi Defeated for Teräs Käsi Title
ÄSLAJÄ, BUNDUKI - The Force was not with Jedi Knight Joclad Danva tonight.
In the evening air of the final purple-hued moon of the season, the formerly undefeated Danva was humbled in teräs käsi combat by new Palawa Band champion Phow Ji. Ji ended the exhausting 47-minute bout with a rancor-rising, aryx-slash, nexu-grin combination.
"Joclad's failure is just further proof that this ‘force' is nothing more than a myth perpetuated as an excuse to retain power," said Ji (19-0), the home-planet favorite. "Enlightenment and strength is not the exclusive domain of a recluse tower on Coruscant."
A deferential Danva conceded the contest, but insisted the Force did not fail him. "The art of teräs käsi is about control and mastery of one's self. The Force is the power of all living things," claimed the Jedi. "To go outside of myself and call upon the Force during the Palawa quest would violate the purity of teräs käsi. Phow was superior this day within the confines of the discipline."
Earlier, Danva and Ji defeated quarter final and semi-final opponents with relative ease. Notable combatants included locals Chaq-Quaj Ee (19-3), Beru Slee (76-5), Celjo Mi (22-7), and surprising finishes for off-worlders Lungrolph Isher (Krish 10-12) and Talon Slyter (Draethos 36-19).
In a quarter-final contest, popular Epicanthix fighter Dux Pike suffered a fatal shenbit-bonecrusher blow from Phow Ji. Pike is survived by his wife and infant twin daughters.
The Palawa Band
What is it?
The Palawa Band is a tourament held on Bunduki every planetary year. Teras Kasi gather from all over to face each other in single combat. The winner of the tournament is given the Palawa Band as a symbol to all other Teras Kasi that this being is the reigning champion, the best of the best so to speak. Deaths have occurred in this tournament, but it is expected since the combatants are not supposed to hold back.
Origin of the Tournament
When the first non-Palawans began to take what they had learned on Bunduki and share it with the rest of the galaxy, they setup schools that were relatively isolated from each other. Once the art began to gain popularity, the students of these offshoot schools would begin to run into each other. Some times the meetings would be friendly, but most of the time it would get out of hand and one of the students would end up dead. The rivalries grew until they eventually became full on wars. The Order sought to put an end to the conflict and instituted the Palawa Band tournament. The top student from each school was to come to the temple at Aslaja and face their peers in single combat to the death. The winner of the tournament was given the Palawa Band to take back to their school. It symbolized the recognition by the Order that their school was the undisputed best.
OmniReaperr
Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:00 am
#39
I'll see if I can't try my hand at the gronda stomp.
While on Corellia meditating in the planets lush savanahs, a Teras Kasi Monk witnessed something that he would later turn into a devastating Teras Kasi Teqnique. A pack of wrix were circling a Mother Gronda and her babies, ready to lunge in for the kill. However just as the lead of the pack rushed in to start the feeding frenzy, the mother gronda whipped her back end around whilst at the same time elevating it, and then came down so fast and hard on the wrix that the ground literally shook for a mile. This move by the gronda scared off the rest of the pack, and the Grondas were able to graze in peace. The monk later turned this into a move wherein a Teras Kasi Practitioner switches his foot stance opposite of his original and diagonally stomps with force granted from a survival instinct on his targets lower extremeties, rendering the attacker completley incapacitated from the waist down.
Edit : Made a different Nexu Grin Story.
Message Edited by OmniReaperr on 12-10-2004 03:07 PM