Curl is the expression of Magic in Hanaq through one’s body - the fundamental life energy of the world manifesting as internal alchemy. While different traditions may describe it as martial arts, meditation, or spiritual practice, Curl represents the universal principle of transmuting the magical energies that flow through all living beings.
Basic Arts
The three fundamental transmutation principles that form the foundation of all Curl techniques:
Flow
Flexibility and adaptability in every dimension - mental, physical, and energetic. Practitioners learn to bend, redirect, and adapt to forces rather than resist them. Flow enables extreme physical flexibility, mental adaptability, and serves as the foundation for techniques like Spring.
Crunch
Compression and intensification in all aspects. This involves literally compressing muscles for explosive power and compressing mental processes for accelerated thinking and calculation. Masters can condense tremendous force into small spaces and process information at absurd speeds.
Tune
The ability to tune into and understand the flow of energies, information, and systems.Practitioners can perceive how forces move through objects, people, and environments, gaining intuitive understanding of complex patterns and connections.
Advanced Arts
All advanced Curl techniques are applications and combinations of the three basic arts:
Spring (Flow): Impact absorption through muscle control and redirection. Masters can redistribute force so effectively that they become nearly immune to physical damage.
Trunk (Crunch): Compressed muscle mass for devastating strikes. Advanced practitioners can temporarily triple their body weight for bone-crushing attacks.
Graze (Flow): Deflecting attacks through perfect timing. Experts can redirect bullets by barely touching them.
Razor (Crunch): Creating cutting force through compressed movement. Masters generate air blades sharp enough to slice stone.
Flutter (Flow + Crunch): Enhanced movement through body compression and extension. Advanced users can achieve absurdly fast movement by stretching and snapping back. This produces a distinct sound.
Twirl (Flow + Tune): Curving projectiles through energy redirection. Practitioners can make thrown objects follow impossible spiral paths around obstacles.
Drill (Crunch + Twirl): Adding rotational force to projectiles. Masters can turn a simple ball into something as destructive as armor-piercing shells.
Hush (Flow): Controlling bodily processes and stealth. Advanced practitioners can temporarily stop their heartbeat and become completely undetectable.
Penta (Tune + Crunch): The fundamental caster ability combining rapid mental processing with intuitive comprehension. Practitioners can process complex magical formulas at superhuman speeds while simultaneously tuning into the massive bursts of data to actually understand and apply them. This enables spellcasters to handle high-level magic through biological computation rather than external tools.
Greed Eye (Tune + Crunch): Anatomical analysis for identifying weaknesses. Practitioners can instantly locate vital points and structural flaws in opponents or objects.
Shadowbinds
ShadowBinds represent the unconscious mind becoming an autonomous engine of transmutation. Through trauma, intense desire, or exceptional circumstances, one’s shadow learns to continuously perform specific alchemical processes, creating permanent magical effects that operate independently of conscious will.