Tournament of Ki

The Tournament of Ki is a yearly prestigious event for monks across Northwest Faerun, where select members of various monasteries gather together to compete in games and tasks that put their monastery's teachings to the ultimate test.
The tournament is normally a closed event to non-monks, but exceptions can be made for family members and other special cases.

History

The Tournament of Ki was founded in 1424 by a collection of monasteries seeking to determine which of their martial arts were superior to the others. Over the years it has grown in size and scope, expanding even to occasionally include monasteries from across Faerun and even the Shadowfell and Feywild, though monasteries from Northwest Faerun are still favored to be selected for participation.
The 93rd Annual Tournament of Ki in 1517 saw the debut of the Coldscar Monastery, founded by the Hero of Saltmarsh Lyra's. Other participants included the Four Winds Monastery from Rashemen in eastern Faerun, the Kame Hause Monastery from Calimsham, the Soaring Palm Monastery from the Shadowfell, and the return of the Twilight Monastery, the monastery where Lyra trained and which had taken twenty years to recover from the Banesmark Crisis. In an unexpected turn of events, the Coldscar Monastery swept nearly every competition, earning a great deal of accolades for the new monastery.

Execution

The challenges and games used in each tournament varies yearly, however there are some notable favorites that tend to be expected, such as the ever-popular Bamboozle.
Generally, various acolytes from the monastery compete in skills of knife throwing and catching, balance, navigating a maze blinded, and more.
The final competition is between each monastery's head and is usual a test of great strength or even open combat. For instance, the 93rd Annual Tournament of Ki saw the various monastery leaders fight each other in a cave while avoiding the ire and breath weapon of the silver dragon Otaarlyiakkarnos, who had gracefully accepted the request for her participation.