Talk:Arie Family/@comment-26484417-20160405071834/@comment-26484417-20160405173003

Indeed, it is similar to Yuri's case, but—for all we know—it's completely different from both Novick's and Laure's case. Novick appears to use techniques of his branch family, hence the discussion about possibility of Hayeol being a branch family, and Laure is using Eurasia Style with no indication of further personalisation or even specialisation.

EDIT: If we're talking about a branch family style, there are still two possible interpretations: (1) The main family style contains all techniques of the branch family style, but not vice versa (i.e., sub-set situation). Or (2) The main family style may share some principles and even some techniques with the branch family style, but they are two distinct styles otherwise (i.e., partial overlap situation).

Yuri's technique was called "speciality" which makes room for the possibility that it's still the Ha family style, and it happens to be Yuri's forte. Alternative is that it's like White Style, in which case it shouldn't be listed as Ha family style technique either.

The argument that every master of the style is going to have his own branch that deviates from the core is not really a valid argument. The only consequence of this would be that every master of the style is going to practice both the Arie swordsmanship and his own special branch thereof. If one cannot learn the listed techniques by studying the Arie swordsmanship, they are not part of the Arie swordsmanship. And as one can only learn these techniques by studying "Arie swordsmanship - White Style", they shouldn't be listed as "Arie swordsmanship" techniques. I can understand the confusion, the name implies something quite different from what is actually described.

PS: If Yuri recognises the one with the long name, then this particular technique may be similar to Yuri's case (i.e., not a White Style per se, but simply White's speciality), or maybe she simply inferred that from "white everything + swordsmanship". Either way, the 3 remaining techniques with "dead" in the name cannot really be justified even if we account for this possibility.

EDIT2: I would also like to clarify that I'm not necessarily saying that White Style is not as good as Arie swordsmanship. In fact, it may actually be better than the generic Arie swordsmanship, though its "dead" theme may be an indication that it relies on consumed souls.