Kyorlin plynn

Kyorlin Plynn, meaning "watch and take", was a fighting style taught among drow and was used to defeat enemies without killing them.

Description
As the name "watch and take" suggested, the fighting style was about fighting defensively and than disarm the enemy. The purpose of this style was to fight defensively but efficiently to buy time and drop the fighting power of the enemy. All with the ideal in mind to capture the enemy alive, for example for interrogation.

Mastering this style was a guarantee for steady employment in every drow society. Users were employed in practically in most drow combat group. Their role was to fight the strongest enemy and to keep that one busy, delay the combat by disarming, all to buy time for the others to defeat all other enemies to then join forces in defeating the strong enemy.

Training
As the name suggested, would-be users needed to learn to be able to put themselves in the situation to be able to observe an enemy at all. They had to hone their combat reflexes, so they can be a threat to their enemies right at the beginning of any kind of combat.

They also needed to learn to fight defensively, though this was generally done at the cost of their offensive capability, as well as specifically the art of disarming.

Users of this style often learned the jivvin golhyrr style, another style that focused on defeating an enemy but not necessarily kill.

Reputation
The style was learned by two categories of drow, conservative fighters and clerics of Lolth, but the motivation why they learned it was different from the ground up. The former learned it, because it was from time to time necessary to not kill an enemy, for example for interrogation purpose. The priestesses learned it to gain living torture subjects for sacrifice purposes.