re: Troll schools of MA and their locations.
Blue Moon -- ninjitsu, or similar... sneaky deadly bastiches.
Koramondol -- Sumo. In the old days of Black Sun and KoI, there would have been amazing MA Tourneys in the arenas (think Mortal Kombat here)... and there may still be Isolated Black Sun Monastaries hidden someplace (for those MGF heathens who want their Glorantha to Have B-grade Kung-Fu movie sequences.)
Sumo might be universal, or might not. It just seems so perfectly suited to the Uz...
Karrg is "Master of Weapons" so he probably doesn't do unarmed...
It may be that Unarmed Martial arts are the domain of the womenfolk...
KL -- Thai Boxing or equivilent... just to reinforce the deeply ingrained "don' mess wit momma" creedo. One of the "womens secrets" tought to the girls to help keep the menfolk in line (can't use a mace in "friendly" fighting ;-) This gives women the Clear advantage in social combat that I at least have felt was missing from the offical writeups... (the ladies just ought to be able to dish out a full on can of WhupAss when they are grumpy, even aside from their clear spiritual superiority)
XU -- Judo would be the perfect way for lil' sis to deal with a raging ZZi... close, pin, and wait for the berserk spell to expire. Also is good training for the poor enlo. Teaches them how to survive being thrown and booted about all their lives. It's just no fun if the TrollBall don't Bounce. Very XU in flavor. (mind you, nobody's going to teach the little vermin anything offensive -- that's a Big Girl secret)
Subere -- Who needs martial arts when you can just eat their soul? These girls are too tough as is... and prolly remember enough points of "LeadFist" from their KL Priestess days to make anyone short of Harrek fully afraid of the dark.
Thus, it is the Female Uz who know all the Martial Arts (Pakat Yaraboom was a notorious mommas boy ;-), and the Males are forced to learn Weapons and go pick on the Surface Folk...
danm
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