Enhanced Combat Maneuvers: Bird Discipline

Bird Discipline is effective against Air Discipline.

Bird Discipline is weak to Cat Discipline.

When you select this feat you gain proficiency in the Water Discipline. Additional Disciplines can only be gained by training with Masters of the missing disciplines (90 days of downtime and a charge of 5000g per Discipline). 

As a bonus action you can take up a form in one of the disciplines you know. You can drop a form of your own accord using an action on your turn. While in form you gain the benefits of that form for the duration of the fight or until you are knocked out of form. You can knock another Weapoonmaster out of form by landing a strike on them from a more dominant form. When a character is knocked out form you can force them to do one of the following;
   

     - become disarmed with their weapon placed 10 feet away from their current position in a place you select.
     - knock the character prone
     - the character makes all attacks during their next turn at disadvantage

Heron Spreads its wings. It is a flourishing form meant to create space and dismember  attackers that get too close. Add 1 to your AC

Heron in the Rushes.  It is a stance to draw an attacker in with a perceived opening before launching a counter strike. Add 1 to your attack roll

Hummingbird kisses the Honeybee. A reverse thrust, useful against an attacker on the offensive. Reroll 1s on your damage roll

The Falcon Stoops. A combination dodge and upward cut able to parry attackers on the side while maintaining focus on a victim to the front. Add 1 to your Critical Range (if your Critical Range was 20 it is now 19-20)

Swallow Takes Flight. A transition flourish to move from reverse grip to a normal grip while guarding to either side. Add 1 to you Dexterity Saving Throw

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If a player earns all 5 Disciplines they are meet the prerequisites to gain the Heroning Feat. And may undergo the Heroning by a counsel of Blademasters. Granting the more skills.

     -You gain 2 AC when you are using a weapon with which you are proficient.

     -You can make a constitution saving throw against being knocked out of form (DC is the attack roll of the attacking character)

     -Any weapon the bearer wields is embossed with a Silver heron (the location of the heron is left to the player) The heron-marked weapon allows the player to reroll one of his attacker's damage dice each turn.

Ancestral Norms

Cat- Dragonborn, Human, Lizardfolk, Tabaxi

Bird- Orc, Tiefling, Genasi, Triton

Air- Elf, Aarakocra, Genasi, Aasimar

Moon- Halfling, Hobgoblin, Goliath

Water- Dwarf, Gnome, Genasi

-In memory of of the late James Oliver Rigney Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007) (Robert Jordan)

"Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time."