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Originally Posted by JulianLW
If you're looking for medieval monk warriors, you could just call them Templars. People think they're using secret magic, but really .. it's the chi.
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The historical Templars (and their more successful colleagues the Hospitallers) were monks in a very real and legally-binding sense and full-time professional experts in historical European martial arts, but they were usually a tad heavily armoured for your archetypal martial artist. When I imposed dungeon fantasy archetypes on vaguely mediaeval I-can't-believe-it's-not-Europe settings I made the Hospitallers out to be
paladins, and gave the "monk" abilities to Franciscan friars such as Friar Tuck.