Name: Blind Wangshu
Technique Power Ranking: D
Description: A technique that can only be learnt when the sense of sight is gone, the technique was made by a blind martial artist who learned how to increase the potency of his other senses, to become a great martial master. The Blind Weaponmaster's weapon of choice is stereotypically a staff, but other blunt weapons have been used as well. Blades are rare but not unheard of.
Pathways:
Stage One: To Master stage one the user must first come to understand the fundamentals of taste, spending a period of time just tasting what there was to taste. Until they can differentiate absolutely anything with just their taste.
Bonus: Mastering this stage grants them 20% resistance to sickness, poison, toxins. As well as heavily increased taste sense
Backlash: Mastering this stage will cause everything they taste to be much more stronger in taste.
Stage Two: Once the first stage is mastered they can master the second stage by understanding the fundamentals of touch, from just the sense of how the wind moves, how the leaves grow, how mana feels around them, and how the water moves. They need to be able to differentiate anything with just the sense of touch.
Bonus: Mastering this stage will cause someone to sense the world in a 50 meter radius from just their sense of touch. Users may be able to sense vibrations through solid substances, liquids or even the air-pressure changes.
Backlash: Makes them more vulnerable to pain.
Stage Three: To Master stage three the user must come to understand the fundamentals of Smell, spending a period of time smelling their environment. Until they can differentiate absolutely anything with just their smell.
Bonus: Masters can detect specific persons, objects, substances or even places, locate their origin, and track targets with nothing but their nose.
Backlash: Mastering this stage will cause everything they smell to be much more stronger in intensity.
Final Stage: To Master stage one the user must first come to understand the fundamentals of Sound, spending hours just listening to their environment. Until they can differentiate absolutely anything with just their hearing.
Bonus: Can use Echolocation and able to detect lies from change of breathing/heart rate and form a mental map in an area of 100 meters around them.
Backlash: Mastering this stage will cause loud noises to be irritating.
