Name of the Style: Burning Horizon Technique

Country of Origin: Nyroth

Description: Following his defeat at the hands of many opponents in duels at the Sixth Raaneka Games of 422 the Dusk Knight Ser Belistizo Lilin returned to Nyroth with a single goal: establish a formalized fighting style for the dusk knights of Nyroth. Lilin, ever a flamboyant knight in mannerisms and in battle desired to craft a Dusk Knight technique fitting for singular non-mounted combat but equally to develop a technique that would distinguish its users from practitioners of other blade styles. For Belistizo the identifying trademarks of the Dusk Knights were their Kralaxes, which would not be available in duels, and their exclusive reserves of pitch which were stored and guarded by the Dusk Knights for times of war. With this thought Belistizo concocted a style that would identify a Dusk Knight in any duel, he coated his sword in Pitch and set it aflame practicing the usage of a flaming blade until he came to understand what was needed to make it work.

The blade itself is only coated thinly with pitch, and burns for no longer than five minutes on average, the swings and styling of the swordsmanship are not overly complicated, with an emphasis on offense over defense, slashing over piercing, and a propensity for twirling and rotating in the absence of direct combat for purposes of intimidation and to capitalize on what Ser Lilin described as the "wow factor" of the technique.

Notable Moves: The Setting Sun move of Burning Horizon is most easily described as a downward swing of the flaming blade in an arc intended to crash into a shield or opponent, thus resting the "sun", the blade, upon its target horizon. The Rising Sun is an upward swing intended to disarm or blind the opponent with the light and heat of the flame.

Notable Users: Dusk Knight, Warden of the Forts in Nyroth, Ser Belistizo Lilin; Dusk Knights

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