Way of the Fighter: Drei weitere Kämpfer

Ninja Division stellen drei weitere Kämpfer für das kommende Brettspiel Way of the Fighter vor.

Fiercely independent, D’Shaun has always led a lone life. Schooled in Taijutsu as the first student of Hiroshi—a then famed, but reclusive martial arts master—he rejected the spiritual aspects of the art, never fully mastering its most powerful forms. Resentful that Hiroshi had somehow withheld the advanced techniques from him, he physically lashed out but once, only to find himself restrained by immense powers emanating from Hiroshi. Thereafter, he was immediately cast out of Hiroshi’s home and good graces. Dejected, he applied his intellect and skills for more practical purposes in the military. As a special operative, he enjoyed a fruitful career for many years until he mistakenly killed an unarmed man he suspected was an assassin from an elite group of spies working for the Красная звезда комитет Тайн (Red Star Committee of Mysteries, or K3KT) at the Old Port of Marseilles. Broken up and, later, dishonorably discharged, he sought Hiroshi to reconcile and atone for his past transgressions. They met months later on a quiet night in a field of fireflies. As D’Shaun opened his mouth to speak, they were hastily disrupted by a fleet of uproarious K3KT helicopters and the whizzing sound of bullets through the air. Attempting to save Hiroshi, D’Shuan tackled him to the ground, only to be mysteriously paralyzed and temporarily incapacitated. Upon waking some time later, Hiroshi was nowhere to be seen…except for the traces of blood and scraps of cloth in D’Shaun’s hands.

Born of a French mother and Algerian father, Faris grew up in a broken family in an even more broken world. Escaping home as a teenager, Faris ended up scraping by in the ghettos of Marseilles, France until he found a consistent home with the only dependable person in his life: his uncle and former Savate boxer, Armand. Often on the run in his youth, he learned to evade others by: employing acrobatics to climb walls, jumping from buildings, and tumbling to safety. A true traceur of Parkour before it had such a name, his skills were further honed by Armand who taught him Savate as a means to protect himself and to encourage him to find focus in his life. Receptive to his uncle’s teachings and incredibly talented, Faris embraced the art, reformed his life, and was on track to becoming a champion. One day after training alone, he turned on the news to discover a terrible tragedy: a man had been killed near the Old Port by an unknown assailant. That man—carrying new fine-leather boxing gloves—was his uncle. With few leads and even fewer clues as to the motivation for such an attack, Faris gave up the gloves and vowed to find the assailant at any cost.

Life in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico was rather mellow for the unassuming boy born to a seemingly aloof, yet surprisingly well known father around the city. The middle child and only son of a fairly traditional family, he grew up primarily laboring around his grandparents’ historic farm along with his parents and sisters. When not working the fields, he was often found playing in the streets, longing for a life beyond the farm. Typically jovial, he was also fast to defend his kin, one time chasing down a man who ran off with his abeula’s purse while she was shopping at the market square. Cornering the thief and bringing him into submission with a single instinctive punch to chest that merely incapacitated the culprit, he reclaimed her purse and also caught the fiery attention of his father. Fearful of discipline as his father hastily carted him away to the tool shed behind the house after the incident, he was surprised when his father instead revealed a large chest to him that he’d never seen before. In it, a silver mask with tear-shaped eye holes sat atop worn ivory boots with frayed white and silver laces, unpolished metal and leather belts, and what appeared to be hundreds of news clippings and black and white photos. “Al mal tiempo, buena cara, miho,” his father shared, going on to reveal his proud history as a once famous luchador that traveled the whole of Central America. Inspired by his father’s stories, the once unassuming boy embraced his father’s tutelage from that day forward. Training daily to eventually become a famous, fierce, charitable and powerful luchador known only as El Falcon to so many around the world, he swore to right the wrongs of the broken world around him…no matter the cost.

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