When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action. You can spend Discipline Points to make additional strikes.

You can spend Discipline Points to take the Dodge action as a bonus action, making you harder to hit while you press forward.

You can spend Discipline Points to Dash or Disengage as a bonus action, and your jump distance improves for the turn.

When a creature hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage, and if the attack is a ranged weapon attack you can often catch or deflect it completely.

When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can force it to save or suffer one of several control effects chosen by your tradition, representing precise pressure-point strikes and battlefield technique.

Your body is your armor. While unarmored and not using a shield, your AC equals 10 plus your Dexterity modifier plus your Wisdom modifier.

You are trained to strike with speed and precision using monk weapons and unarmed strikes. Your unarmed strike damage scales with monk level, and you can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your monk weapons and unarmed strikes.

You are proficient with simple weapons and shortswords, and you can treat certain weapons as monk weapons according to the class rules.

Your speed increases while you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield, reflecting your exceptional training and agility.

You gain a pool of Discipline Points and can spend them to fuel special combat options such as Flurry of Blows, Patient Defense, and Step of the Wind.

Choose a monastic tradition. Skuzlat follows the Way of Shadow, learning to move through darkness, vanish from sight, and strike from positions of advantage.

You can use shadowy techniques to create darkness, move silently, and manipulate the battlefield from concealment.

Your movement becomes nearly impossible to pin down. You can melt from one patch of darkness to another and emerge where your enemies least expect.

Your discipline deepens, letting you keep fighting through pain and recover focus more reliably during battle and rest.

You can use your training to avoid area effects that would otherwise overwhelm lesser warriors, turning danger into narrow escapes.

Your body and mind have become steadier under pressure, helping you resist fear, poison, and other harmful influences more easily.

Skuzlat can draw upon a web of underworld contacts, smugglers, thieves, fixers, and fence-keepers who trade favors, rumors, and quiet access to illicit work.