| Talent category | Combat Specialty |
| Method of purchase | During gameplay or character creation |
| Personality traits | None |
| Required base stats | Grace 7+, Wits 7+ |
| Required skills | Swords 75+, Daggers 75+, Improvised 50+ |
| Required styles | Eagle 50+ |
| Required talents | Fencing Mastery |
This talent reduces your AP cost for rapier and main gauche commands by 10, and enhances many of the combat techniques. In addition, loose clothing used as an improvised weapon receives greatly improved defensive techniques while you are using a rapier in the other hand, and you gain the ability to draw or sheathe cloaks as if they were weapons, reflecting a style of combat popular among many duellists.
Your cut and stab attacks with rapiers and main gauches have an innate critical bypass of 250% instead of the usual 150% (see ‘help critical bypass’). You hit where it hurts, and strike your opponent’s armour where it’s the weakest.