Whether she's hunting with a shortbow or duelling with a sword and shield, Rinh fights with precision, accuracy, and persistence.
She learned to shoot growing up in a very traditional Keeper family, and maintains the skills she learned at her mother's knee. Stalk quietly, avoid sudden movements, maintain a tireless pursuit, stay in cover, and when you finally do shoot, for Menphina's sake, make it count-- if you startle your quarry, all your efforts are for nought, and the family goes hungry.
Rinh's time flighting on the bloodsands was one of the most intensely unhappy times in her life, but the lessons she learned about fighting with sword and scutum have served her well. She's stronger than she looks, but the fact of the matter is that a four fulm eleven ilm miqo'te isn't going to be able to knock down a seasoned Roegadyn or Highlander fighter with brute force alone. So precision, accuracy, and persistence are as important in a melee as they were when hunting antelope in the depths of Shroud. Every blow must strike true, every opponent's blow must be parried or blocked with her shield with unerring accuracy, and above all, she has to endure, no matter how exhausted or injured she might be-- if she lost a fight, all her efforts would be for nought, and her family went hungry.
Towards the end of her career, she heard a rumor that some of her opponents were just outright aiming for deathblows, since it was allegedly the only way to get her to stop fighting. She never did find out if that was true or not, but it still helped her decide to put her winnings towards passage on a ship the hell out of Thanalan.
In her current capacity as an officer of the Maelstrom, this defensive fighting style is put to what Rinh considers much better use-- protecting others from harm, saving the weak, working to better the whole Eorzean Alliance. But the instincts that guide her are still half Black Shroud and half Coliseum.
She learned to shoot growing up in a very traditional Keeper family, and maintains the skills she learned at her mother's knee. Stalk quietly, avoid sudden movements, maintain a tireless pursuit, stay in cover, and when you finally do shoot, for Menphina's sake, make it count-- if you startle your quarry, all your efforts are for nought, and the family goes hungry.
Rinh's time flighting on the bloodsands was one of the most intensely unhappy times in her life, but the lessons she learned about fighting with sword and scutum have served her well. She's stronger than she looks, but the fact of the matter is that a four fulm eleven ilm miqo'te isn't going to be able to knock down a seasoned Roegadyn or Highlander fighter with brute force alone. So precision, accuracy, and persistence are as important in a melee as they were when hunting antelope in the depths of Shroud. Every blow must strike true, every opponent's blow must be parried or blocked with her shield with unerring accuracy, and above all, she has to endure, no matter how exhausted or injured she might be-- if she lost a fight, all her efforts would be for nought, and her family went hungry.
Towards the end of her career, she heard a rumor that some of her opponents were just outright aiming for deathblows, since it was allegedly the only way to get her to stop fighting. She never did find out if that was true or not, but it still helped her decide to put her winnings towards passage on a ship the hell out of Thanalan.
In her current capacity as an officer of the Maelstrom, this defensive fighting style is put to what Rinh considers much better use-- protecting others from harm, saving the weak, working to better the whole Eorzean Alliance. But the instincts that guide her are still half Black Shroud and half Coliseum.
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