Monastic Tradition
Way of the Two Heavens
Blood and Iron
At 3rd level, your training and discipline has lead you not only to the mastery of the blade but also to the maintenance and forging of such weapons. You gain proficiency in smith's tools and can spend 2 Ki Points using you Smiths Tools over the course of a short rest to craft a sword without needing the proper materials.
Sword Mastery
Also at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with one weapon of your choice from the following; Dagger, Shortsword, Longsword, Rapier, or Scimitar. The weapon you chose is your Chosen Blade and counts as a monk weapon for you. You gain the following benefits;
Two Blades as One: You can use two-weapon fighting with your Chosen Blade even if they aren’t light, and when you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.
Cross Guard: When you use your Patient Defence feature you enter a defensive sword stance. Your AC increases by 1 for each Chosen Blade you are welding until the start of your next turn.
Hungering Moon: When you use your Step of the Wind feature and move at least 20ft towards a creature you can make 1 melee weapon attack against a creature within range with your Chosen Blade.
Heavens Edge
At 6th level, you extend your ki into your weapon, granting the following benefits.
Shrine cutting: Your attacks with your Chosen Blade count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to non-magical attacks and damage.
Glimmering Silver: You can, as a reaction, when you are hit by a melee weapon attack, you can spend 1 Ki Point to use your blades to defect the attack. The damage you take from the attack is reduced by 1d10 + your Dexterity modifier + your monk level. If you reduce the damage to 0, you can retaliate by spending 1 additional ki point to make 1 melee weapon attack with your Chosen Blade.
Sword Saint
At 11th level,
One Hundred Flayed Corpses
At 17th level, your swordsmanship has reached beyond the normal reaches of mortals. As an action, you can spend 4 Ki Points to attack with one graceful motion and with a hundred intricacies you unleash a shockwave of sword slashes. Roll 1d100 and creatures within 20ft of you must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Ki Save DC. On a failed save creatures take slashing damage equal to the number rolled or they take a quarter of the damage on a successful save.
Art credit
- Takehiko Inoue - Vagabond manga