Dance of Knives

Blood Affinities

You have mastered the ancient Romani art of fighting form the soul. As you move your body to the rhythm of your Blood, your knives become an extension of your body, and thus of your Blood. When performing the Dance, you move at speeds far beyond your normal capabilities, and your body and knives combine in a lethal whirlwind of motion.
This skill combines the beauty of dance with the violence of combat. Gypsies with this ability use the power of their Blood to fall into a trance-like state, in which they become extremely efficient fighting machines. The dancer may either use her knives and feet in hand-to-hand combat, or she may hurl her knives at a more distant opponent. The character's rating in this skill equals the number of attacks possible in a turn, so a character with a rating of three could attack up to three times in one turn. This also means that a character with only one dot in the Dance of Knives attacks normally. The first dot merely represents the initial learning of the movement. True mastery comes at higher levels.
Due to the tremendous difficulty of the Dance of Knives, the character's rating in this skill may never exceed her Blood Purity.