Talk:Twenty-Fifth Baam/@comment-26018118-20170330195351/@comment-26484417-20170331194934

@Tony: If you consider that Koon Eduan--who isn't likely to have taken a test of this kind (assuming the test even existed back then)--is a Jeonsulsa, I would say that both options are possible.

Maybe the test is how one can obtain a contract that facilitates the Jeonsulsa / Hwayeomsa (i.e., some are born with the hereditary Family contracts, while others first need to make their own contract).

However, this should at best cover the Jeonsulsa and Hwayeomsa positions (i.e., those are things that sound like something either inborn or contract-enabled, and it appears to be a permanent state), while Wonsulsa and Dansulsa appear to be quite different category. For instance, the test to become Wonsulsa is apparently about "learning the technique", so if one can--however improbably--learn it without the Gustang Association, then that's that. This could also explain why Baam immediatelly copied Wonsulsa technique, while he has never used any Jeonsulsa technique despite the many occasions to copy Maschenny Style from Ran--and Maschenny Style should be right up there with if not above Ha Jinsung style and YHS style.