The Sekk-Sotyll Scrolls defined the Warrior Archetype as being the oldest one there is and also as being the Archetype with the largest amount of Disciplines. Pre-Collapse there were literally hundreds of them; most of them based upon individual weapon mastery or specific attack patterns. Post-Collapse a lot of that knowledge was lost resulting in the focused set that exists today. As long as there is conflict or a frontier Warriors will always be needed and in the early days of the Deadspell Storm their might was certainly appreciated.
Adept
A product of the new age beyond the Great Collapse, the Adept did not come into being until decades later. As the old ways of the Warrior proved to be either lost or inapplicable, there was a group of Warriors that concluded it was time to start anew; time to explore this strange new existence in the Deadspell Storm and from it draw a new Discipline.
During the Age of Expansion this new breed would venture along towards the new Shards and Fragments curious and eager to gain more insight into how to survive these new lands. By the time the War of Shadow’s Hammer erupted the first signs of the Adept were starting to emerge and it was during the Era of Decadence that the Discipline finally found its soul.
Through different stances an Adept can change his view, focus and mindset to correspond to whatever challenge is ahead of him; even if this challenge is still unknown. Count on change, adapt or die. This mantra is at the very core of the Adept Discipline. The first to experiment with this Discipline would later be known as persons of importance and they would inspire courage into their fellows wherever they would fight.
Bloodwarrior
The Bloodwarrior is the oldest Discipline still existing. It can be traced back to the very first human warriors and is as such seen as a barbaric remnant. Before the Great Collapse the Bloodwarrior stood for little more than a title. It glorified those involved with battle, often pointing out scars as trophies of survival; sometimes even carved themselves in bloody rituals. Though it was seen as a Discipline, it was regarded as the "base" of a warrior’s mindset.
After the Great Collapse however, all the proper Disciplines proved to have lost a great deal and the Bloodwarrior became more than a title. It became the mark of those who still knew how to fight by heart. This mindset was cultivated in a strange and harsh environment and the freed energies of the Deadspell Storm imbued the scars with actual force.
The lust for blood and battle caused the Bloodwarrior to evolve into a warrior playing with life and death itself. These men and women were prepared to give it all and take it all for the sole purpose of victory. Their scars becoming tangible memories and even triggers to unleash powers they never knew were possible. Barbaric they may be, but these barbarians proved to be aptly suited to this strange new existence within the Storm.
Wrathguard
The panic that ensued amongst Warriors after the Great Collapse was not immediate. It came weeks later when it dawned that they had not only lost their world, they had also lost knowledge. Mentors and elders that had guided the young were gone and already some secrets were irrevocably lost to Warrior society. The answer to this problem for some was to conserve: Honour Guards they were called.
These Honour Guards assembled as much knowledge about the numerous Warrior Disciplines they could and rigidly stored them as a way of fighting. Ordered by Discipline, area or sometimes even family, they attached crests to these consolidated ways of fighting. The routines that flowed from them kept the knowledge from becoming lost.
At the same time the crests became more than just an identifier; as with everything they increasingly became infused with Deadspell energies, unintentionally forming a link with the past warriors’ knowledge they were set to preserve. During the War of the Five Sacrifices this became clear to all. The stored energies were subconsciously released and the Honour Guards became possessed by the spirits of old Warriors lending them their bodies becoming highly skilled and efficient. It was then that the Honour Guards got a new name: Wraith Guard. A name that over the years would ultimately form the name of the Discipline as we know it today: Wrathguard.
