In Athas, several powerful groups combined skills from what were normally discrete specialties in order to form an elite class.
The dragon-kings, as the most obvious example, combined psionics and defiler magic - destroying their environment for personal power.
There were martial artists on Athas, the cruel survival-oriented environment naturally tending to promote harsh dedicated persons who would seek to dominate their environment.
So it was with those who combined the powers of the mind with the skill and discipline of martial arts.
The Will and the Way became a part of those Arts and Ranma already had his chi manipulation abilities started - so when the martial arts senpsi awakened his psionic potential he took to it with a natural flair that quickly overshadowed many of his colleagues.
Of course, one decision that had to be made first and foremost was his primary discipline. The choice of the primary discipline would determine how he best used his psi - for once it had been chosen he would never be as good at the other disciplines as at his primary.
The Five Disciplines were: Telepathy mind reading and communication; Psychokinesis moving things through an application of Will; Psychoportation enhancing one's ability to move through Will; Clairsentience the ability to "see" things others could not; Psychometabolism Mind Over Body.
Normally, a martial artist would primarily go after Psychokinesis or Psychometabolism. Being able to form a telekinetic bullet or alter your body to the toughness of iron had direct applications in a fight. Though Ranma's curiosity and desire to explore made the other three possibilities as well in his case.
Eventually he did decide and at the age of fourteen, Ranma began unlocking the powers of Psionics by choosing his primary discipline as:
(Posted Sun, 08 Dec 2002 13:02)
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