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My first AH challenge, and it goes like this:
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a Shaolin monastery-like Christian monastic order whose primary purpose is to train its monks for and permit them to be deployed in combat using various forms of martial arts (armed and unarmed). This must happen in Western Europe (i.e. north of the Pyrenees and west of the Oder, but including Italy) using a POD not before the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and not after the year 1000. Go for it!