Many of the following feats are appallingly powerful, especially when combined with the advanced martial-arts options detailed in Mage 20, Chapter Nine. A mage who knows such arts is a truly dangerous character, which seriously ramps up the threat-level of Akashayana, Black Suits, Wu Lung, and other combatants who are skilled in both physical and metaphysical war-techniques.

There’s a reason that martial-arts teaching stresses honor, restraint, and discipline… and why most martial artists despise rivals who show little inclination toward those things. A martial artist with lots of expertise but little honor can be a true mon-ster – an abomination to the arts he has learned. The horrific potential of a Nephandic Akashayana with such arts at her beck and call, or of a skilled Chakravat who lives up to that group’s murderous reputation, should be obvious when you look at