Athletics Treatise I

Description
"Journey to the East, Tome One"

Effect
Allows you to learn the following athletic abilities:



Acquired From

 * Sometimes sold by Gerlot, merchant in Mannshire.
 * Sometimes sold by Bert, merchant in Osbrook.
 * Always sold by Unar, scribe in Mannshire.

Book content
For as long as I can remember, I invariably preferred the open road to moving promissory notes from one pile to another. It always felt more engaging to listen to the tales of caravaneers about their distant travels instead of bickering with them, haggling for better prices.

Being a firstborn son of a wealthy spice merchant, I never had a say in choosing my fate. My late father, the Host rest his soul, harbored deep animosity towards any kind of knowledge that he couldn't turn into profit. He made sure to teach me to count almost before I learned how to write. He even hired a travelling elven monk to tutor me in dialects of Jacinth, so that he could spare expenses on translators in the future.

Over the years me and my tutor became good friends. Not only I got a decent grasp on elven language, but also learned the basics of the martial art practiced by most of the Jacinth Kingdoms' monastic communities.

To my then surprise, the focus wasn't on wrestling and fist fighting, but rather on a rich variety of kicks.

( . . . )

After my father's death from a sudden disease, I had no more reasons to linger. I sold my part of the family business to my brother for a hefty sum, invested that money to gather a caravan, and, after bidding farewell to my family and friends, embarked to the Jacinth Kingdoms.

( . . . )