I think the difference is that barehanded is the basic form of combat from which all other methods of combat are derived, and thus it is logically nonsensical to suggest only one country in the world thought it would be a good idea to create a system of combat based around it. Where things get messy is the concept of magic "laws of physics": an inherent force within a fantasy setting, such as The Force in Star Wars or Chi in the Jianghu, is universally true within the setting, otherwise it isn't a law. The question then becomes how hard is it to access this truth? By this I don't just mean using it, but becoming aware of it even. Would someone reasonably be able to discover the same fundamental force independently somewhere else?
Ultimately there's no obvious answer and it depends on whether you buy the often unreliable narration in the game. If you look at say the Monk questline, Erik draws scrutiny upon the exclusivity and special nature of the Chakra, but that still doesn't determine the difficulty of accessing this power. He could be wrong, the Fists could be wrong, and it all depends too on how hard it was to discover in the first place. Can convergent development emerge around the same universal force somewhere else? We probably won't get an answer, but I think saying it's impossible is like saying once one man discovers gravity, no one else is capable of doing so.
Yet it is far more ambiguous in the case of Dark Knights. We don't know how universal or even what's genuinely true about their powers; whether Darkside is a state anyone can enter or if it evolved specifically from the pressures in Ishgardian society as Frey insinuates. Is it a fundamental force or just delusion driving pre-existing aetheric powers? The deliberately mysterious and insular structure of the Knights, which lack even a real order, makes it hard to really grasp how much they've researched their own abilities and how difficult they are to access.
When these ambiguities arise, ultimately the safest bet is to either do something close to the existing data gathered from the lore or come up with something plausible by assembling bits of lore together. Like the spellblade idea.
Ultimately there's no obvious answer and it depends on whether you buy the often unreliable narration in the game. If you look at say the Monk questline, Erik draws scrutiny upon the exclusivity and special nature of the Chakra, but that still doesn't determine the difficulty of accessing this power. He could be wrong, the Fists could be wrong, and it all depends too on how hard it was to discover in the first place. Can convergent development emerge around the same universal force somewhere else? We probably won't get an answer, but I think saying it's impossible is like saying once one man discovers gravity, no one else is capable of doing so.
Yet it is far more ambiguous in the case of Dark Knights. We don't know how universal or even what's genuinely true about their powers; whether Darkside is a state anyone can enter or if it evolved specifically from the pressures in Ishgardian society as Frey insinuates. Is it a fundamental force or just delusion driving pre-existing aetheric powers? The deliberately mysterious and insular structure of the Knights, which lack even a real order, makes it hard to really grasp how much they've researched their own abilities and how difficult they are to access.
When these ambiguities arise, ultimately the safest bet is to either do something close to the existing data gathered from the lore or come up with something plausible by assembling bits of lore together. Like the spellblade idea.
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