Desert Wind

Base Cost: 3

The elves of Valenar are a warlike people, but retain their elven graces, and express their love for nature through their bonds with their horses. The Desert Wind style embodies this, using the famed two sided scimitars from horseback, and a whirling barrage of strikes on the ground. A Desert Wind adapt looks like a whirlwind of death as they spin their blades around them in a deadly dance.
Basic Skills: Staff, Riding.
Basic Techniques: Back Strike, Cavalry Training, Combat Riding, Feint, Hands Free Riding, Quick Mount, Spinning Strike, Staying Seated.
Advanced Skills: Parry Missile Weapons
Advanced Techniques: Dual-Ended Attack, Dual Weapon Defense, Horseback Lunge, Timed Defense, Whirlwind Attack.
Perks: Double-Ended Weapon Training
Chi Mastery Skills: Level 1: Howling Wind (Forceful Blow+Crushing Strike+Telescoping Weapon) Level 2: Burning Attack, Fatiguing Strike, Dazzling Display Level 3: Dancing Weapon, Incendiary Weapon, Multistrike

Optional Traits

Skills: Animal Handling, Jump, Dance. Advantages: Combat Reflexes, Improved Parry (Double-Ended Scimitar) up to +2.

Double Ended Scimitar

The double-bladed scimitar is the signature weapon of Valenar elves. A haft of fine wood supports a long, curving blade on either end. Forged with techniques honed over centuries, these blades are strong, sharp, and remarkably light. Each scimitar is a masterpiece, and as a result the double-bladed scimitar is an expensive weapon — few though ever have the opportunity to purchase one. A Valenar blade in the hands of a non-elf is generally assumed to have been stolen or looted from a fallen foe, and a Valenar elf might feel entitled to demand its return or challenge the bearer to prove they’re worthy to wield it. It uses the staff skill but due to it's exotic nature, the weapon has a -2 penalty for use that can be bought off with the Double-Ended Weapon Training perk. It has two different attacks. Note that the statistics below are for a regular blade, most Valenar scimitars are Fine or Very Fine weapons, adjust statistics appropriately.

Name	Damage	Reach	Parry	Cost	Weight	ST	Notes
Swing	sw+3 cut	1, 2	+1	1500 copper	10	10	-2 to skill
Stab	thr+3 imp	"	"	"	"	"	-2 to skill