Most fighting on Geba is done with weapons, and most fighters learn only what keeps them alive in a corridor. A few traditions treat the body itself as the subject, refined over generations and passed from teacher to student. Yuvaar holds the most widely practiced of them. Much of what the rest of the planet knows about close combat was learned from Yuvaari teachers, stripped from Yuvaari forms, or tested against them.
Yuvaari Kelek
The Yuvaari Kelek is the most practiced martial art in Yuvaar. It takes its name from the Yuvaar Kelek, a small lowland feline that hunts prey far larger than itself. The animal strikes from concealment, takes its grip in a single pounce, and dies before it lets go. The art is built on that hunt, and Yuvaari fighters call it the clearest expression of how they think about combat: a fighter can face something larger than himself if he is the one who does not let go.
The stance is low and balanced, with both hands forward. Those who learn it outside Yuvaar often carry it into contract work armed, a long blade in one hand and a knife in the other, and fall back on it when a fight closes past the range of a weapon.
Saodeh
Saodeh is a Yuvaari discipline known for disciplined, fluid movement. Its practitioners hold that it is never to be used to take a life, and they keep to that wherever they fight. Saodeh practitioners are among the many who have found their way to Boagria.
Yuvaari Schools and the Harmony Code
The traditional Yuvaari schools descend from survival rituals and are governed by a harmony code that restricts weapons, excessive force, and individual dominance. A fighter trained in them learns to work inside those limits, and much of the respect Yuvaari fighters command elsewhere comes from the discipline and conditioning the code demands.
The code's most visible form is the Yuvaari Hunting Games, the highest paid sport on the planet, broadcast across the relay. Five-person teams take down massive fauna with their hands, using only ropes, wraps, and traps. Each team divides into a Leader, two Holders, a Runner, and an Ambusher, and violations of the code end in disqualification or relay shaming. Engineered individuals are barred from the sanctioned games and compete in leagues of their own.
Boagrian Fighting
Boagria sits in the mountain passes of Peak Boagria in the Berinu highlands, an edge grey zone with no relay of its own, hidden from anyone who does not know where to look. It was first explored and settled by Ngorrhali explorers who wanted a place of their own outside Karesh. Over time it grew into something its founders never anticipated. Members of the community went out into the world seeking greater challenges and brought back pupils from every continent, to learn from them as much as to teach them. Veterans of the Emperor's Wrath, Saodeh practitioners from Yuvaar, Frost Sentinel lineages from Ngorrhal, and Engineered individuals from across the governed world have all found their way there. Anyone seeking true mastery of the body and close combat eventually hears of Boagria, and most spend years searching before they find it.
Boagrian fighting treats the body as the only instrument that matters. It has no single form. Every practitioner uses the body differently, and every one of them understands leverage, distance, and positioning as a language: how a shoulder can redirect a charge, how a heel planted at the right moment can cancel the momentum of something ten times its weight. It is a science built on generations of accumulated knowledge, and its practitioners also train with the melee weapons Boagria teaches. The training refines what a body already has and removes what it does not need.
Rank at Boagria is earned by teaching. Defeating the person above you counts for nothing. A practitioner rises by becoming capable enough to teach the person below them, and is then sent out into the world to find them.
Bare Hand
Bare Hand began as an elite unit of the Geban Empire, founded in the Era of Late Conquest by Imperator Kenez'Feraaz of Thazvaar for deep infiltration and sabotage. Its operatives studied the native Yuvaari forms and removed their restraints. Where the traditional schools limit outside weapons, Bare Hand trained its people to kill with any object or with none, and its strikes were precise enough that the factions it targeted often collapsed before they knew an infiltration had begun.
The unit dissolved after the Fracture. Its remnants became the first generation of Shadow Operatives, and no formal Bare Hand branch exists today. The method survives as a combat philosophy favored by high-tier operatives and covert mercenaries: efficient, improvised close-quarters fighting for when a weapon is lost, short desperate exchanges with whatever is nearby to buy time for a reload or a single lethal opportunity.