Martial arts as a discipline found to be unnecessary yet fulfilling is a very new idea in the course of Attovian history. The oldest of the disciplines, Vatorni, is only a few centuries older than the Time of Rest and those which come after often only hold two or three generations of history. Many of millennia of darkness and turmoil made little time for the slow and methodical pace of the martial artist. Those who wished to fight were taught to use weapons efficiently under a set of best practices known as the Crystal Champion Stances. The original stances of this pseudo-martial art have been lost to time, but from time to time teachers crop up who claim to have reconstructed its forms. When properly questioned they almost always pan out as charlatans, but not before they make many a Chip off the interested.