Practise quietly with the Whispering Duellist

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From: Duelling the Black Ribbon


She is not a member of the Black Ribbon. But she has an arrangement with Vendrick, and she has seen more fights than any of them – excepting, perhaps, Feducci.

Unlocked with Whispering Duellist


Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 80

  • 55 - very chancy (41%)
  • 68 - chancy (51%)
  • 82 - modest (61%)
  • 95 - very modest (71%)
  • 108 - low-risk (81%)
  • 122 - straightforward (91%)
  • 134 - straightforward (100%)

Success

The source of all blood

"Violence is a pattern that repeats." She drills you on movements with sabre, shiv and cudgel. […] She attacks in a flurry of blades and bandages, almost too quick to follow […] It is almost a surprise when her onslaught stops, and you are not bleeding at all.

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Failure

Hard-won distance

The Whispering Duellist drills you on movements […] "There will be no time to think, when the blood begins to thunder." […] "So your body must learn the shapes now."

[…] she comes at you with a knife […] her advice is more hindrance than help.

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