Z'ress a'thalak

Z'ress Athalak, meaning "force of war", was a fighting style taught among drow, that was unusual for it revolved around the users' physical strength.

Description
As the name "force of war" suggested, force was paramount for this style. Users made use of heavier weapons instead of the lighter ones favored by most and were ready to sacrifice accuracy for additional strength behind their attacks, enough to cleave through their enemies and destroy their weapons.

User of this style often cooperated with users of the bautha z'hin style for the latter could easily use the former as a good anchor point for flanking maneuvers.

Training
As the name suggested, would-be users needed physical strength, something most drow lacked which turned this style into a rarity.

Users needed to learn how to put more power behind their attacks, to cleave through an enemy to allow follow up attacks and to sunder enemy weapons.

Users of the z'ress athalak style were noted to fought in similar ways as the users of the phindar streeaka "style". While both were similar in putting emphasis on strength, the former did it with purposeful training as a result of a combat theory that came to the conclusion that strength was paramount, whereas the latter was simply an expression of having no idea what they were doing beyond trying to destroy things and physical strength was simply the only thing such a mindless approach could retort to.

Reputation
As mentioned, the style needed a degree of physical strength, the drow generally lacked and was thus rare. Uthegental Del'Armgo was skilled user of this style. The style was popular among the rare followers of Selvetarm, so much so that Selvetarm created the Sword of Selvetarm as a longsword for them instead as his actual favored weapon, the heavy mace.