Okay, let me stop you right there. You’re thinking of a fucking SHAOLIN monk. This motherfucker with the medieval haircut and the brown cloak? He ain’t it. Get a fucking clue, nerds

>>713426620 (OP)
Mendicant friars are a thing in western history. The Hospitallers were probably the biggest example of this.

>>713426620 (OP)
Considering most monastic cults in tamriel come from Cyrodiil, there's literally no reason to be surprised from local monks being more the kung fu type.
The akaviri potentate was a strong cultural influence on the province.

>>713426841
Mendicant and military orders from medieval euro history would fit the crusader class more than the monk tb h.

>>713426841
Oh yeah? And they did karate? Go fuck yourself pseud

>>713427516
Nah, they just stabbed people in the face for being the wrong color and believing in the wrong God.

>>713427516
They wrestled.

>>713426620 (OP)
Neither shaolin or christianity exist in tamriel fucktard shithead piece of fucking shit retard cunt

What would you make a monk do? Copy manuscripts and books? Provide scholarism? Pick up a hoe and sickle?
>>713426841
Military order knights would fit in more with the crusader/temple knight classes.

>>713427007
I chose Oblivion’s icon merely as an example.

Who cares?
Traditional martial arts is now known to be ritualistic choreography more than a combat sport.
A modern MMA fighter would cremate any Shaolin monk from any time period.

>>713427647
An example of what?

>>713427664
How would a MMA fighter deal with a fireball, smartass?

>>713427664
>Traditional martial arts is now known to be ritualistic choreography more than a combat sport.
Traditional martial arts are hardly traditional when you consider they all got effectively destroyed between 1800-1950.
Hilariously, all the shit they chide westerners for were extremely common in their own schools before that point.

>>713427645
>what would you make a monk do?
I would make them healers or nothing at all, just like how a fucking fuller or courier doesn’t have a fantasy class. Fact is, some fantasy writers were cool enough to know they wanted shaolin monks in their settings, but everyone else doesn’t know what they’re doing or why they’re doing it with this class

>>713427718
Of western medieval monks who are pugilists

>>713427878
Then why are you complaining about oblivion, a setting in which monks are mostly eastern influenced?

>>713427878
>>713428208
look you both have great points honestly

>>713427791
>Traditional martial arts are hardly traditional when you consider they all got effectively destroyed between 1800-1950.
QRD?

>>713428475
Basically japanese martial arts have a gap in the meiji period where they weren't practiced due to government policies resulting in most of them dying outright due to lack of successors, and the rest getting watered down to almost just the ceremonial bits. Nowadays the most serious schools aren't that different from HEMA in regards to approach and historical accuracy.
For chinese ones it was more complex, but essentially still just politics discouraging or outright banning them, leaving only non-violent larping. Just as a combination of many political forces over a long period rather than just very specifically the central government going out of its way to undermine the practice.
SEA is a whole other case, what with MT and flip shit being actually still decent, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to even tldr it for them.

Oh, and if you were wondering why the jap government hated that shit it's because it came to power explicitely thanks to those very same practices, and it wanted to avoid losing power in a repeat civil conflict.

>>713428208
Because it’s an example of a fantasy trend of western clergymen who are pugilists. Oblivion’s explanation is suitable but the trope is drawn from fantasy traditions

>>713426620 (OP)
>look I drew a monk what the fuck is your problem todd
>yeah fine I'll redraw him as a karate monk just leave me alone
>ok and now the breton will be a weird meth addict!