Talk:Martial Arts/@comment-82.234.101.145-20151028060354/@comment-27557332-20160131002407

Correction: Skills in Yggdrasil were known. Numerous NPCs have used them, as has Ainz. However, the Yggdrasil Skills were very clearly defined and limited in scope. Even though the actual displayed power was very high in many cases and glossed over for the most part in regards to the smaller ones. We have no real way to compare them in story context as the levels and ability ranges between the Nazarick NPCs and NW residents are so disparate.

As a whole they were not versatile multiple-use abilities like NW Martial Arts has been shown to be. NW Martial Arts also seem to break the mold for who can learn them, they don't seem to be limited to a single class. As the story is right now, no 'Player' or Yggdrasil NPC has shown the ability to use any NW Martial Arts... while there are multiple instances where we see NW characters with Yggdrasil Magic and Skills.

Every single Guardian has used 'physical' skills and abilities, including Magic Casters like Ainz and Mare. Ainz' Physical and Magical immunities are ostensibly skills / abilities and not 'magic', as is his 'Sense Undead'... as well as Mare / Aura's Dark Vision, which should be a racial. None of these take mana to fuel, and they aren't detected as magical effects. (The detection rationale is kind of iffy if we really consider it, it makes sense as a literary device... not so much if we try and deconstruct it rationally.)