by PeripheralBlue » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:35 pm
The monk is... weird. I mean, the class is something of a mix between a western aesthetic, an eastern warrior, and an agent of some description; however, when you stop to consider the role the class filled in the original settings, everything seems to fit rather nicely. Enter The Scarlet Brotherhood. Now, this organization was, essentially, a group of racial supremacists that sought to show the whole world just how awesome they imagined they were. The group's highest tiers were comprised of disciplined warrior aesthetics and philosophers; skilled in the martial arts (though not exactly of a wholly eastern bent) and specialized in carrying out subtle missions of sabotage, subterfuge, infiltration and assassination - they were capable of killing as easily with their words as with their hands. They were the absolute masters of finding out things that you definitely did not want becoming public knowledge. As a result, whole nations feared the possibility, the very idea of being infiltrated by that organization. These guys were nuts, but they were also extremely badass. These fellas weren't just kung fu pandas, nor were they just scribes and scholars shut up in some old monastery, waiting 'til the good sheriff came a knocking hoping to get a helping hand in solving the latest difficulty that had befallen gentle Shrewsbury. Nope, they were a whole different breed of bear-detective.