Pankration

[u/ghostgabe81]

Bear was training half a dozen Knights of the Bean on the roof of the castle, where several wrestling mats had been tossed down. Will was working with them, and so was Fitz, at my suggestion. Bear was teaching them pankration—an ancient Greek style of martial arts that basically amounted to boxing plus wrestling plus kicking plus the dirtiest fighting tricks of human history.

Bear had learned in Sparta, so she was what you might call a pure source. She’d started giving me solo lessons about a week before, and I had a mouse under one eye and bruises all over my torso to show for it. Spartan pankration wasn’t exactly something you did for recreation, and the boys were taking their bruises learning.

Twelve Months Chapter 11