A while back I was looking into purchasing a replica of a sword from Bleach. the thing that struck me was the shape of the blade and how similer it looked to a chefs knife.

While I was thinking about that I also thought about my time in culinary school. One of the first things my teacher told us was that a chef needed to have 3 knives in his kit. A small pairing knife, a long boning knife and a chef's knife. With that thought and with the image of the chef's sword in my mind I came up with the medivel school of culinary combat.

Students become deadly fighters and soldiers as well as skilled cooks.

There are 3 broad ranks. each rank is defined by the sword you have been granted. Here you see 3 cooks from the lowest rank of the school. Once an apprentice has gained the rank he is granted his first sword. The short single edges Paring sword.

The Cook Of the Line is a basic soldier of the culinary legions. skilled cooks, and talanted fighters any cook of the line Is a welcome addition to an army. Some never raise above this rank, and for most that is by chioce rather then any lack of skill the wear white leather armor stylized into a cooks jacket and a pillbox cooks cap as a standard uniform.

The Butchers are the veterans of the legions. Grizzled Sargent's who's skills in the kitchen have lapsed but there skills are parting meat from bone. Deadly fighters who tend to wield massive meat cleavers in combat with a startling grace and skill. There normal cooks uniform is supplemented with an armored butcher's apron.

And finaly we have a field cook. Field cooks are sort of the rangers of the school. While any cook from the school can prepare a meal in the field most are more at home cooking in a kitchen rather round a campfire. It is said that you can leave a feild cook in a desert with no supplies and within hours they would have a a 4 course banquet underway. They tend to be heavily armed and armored with there armor designed to double as cooking utensils. They are also proud monster hunters and will often hire out there services as such. They also jealously guard recipes that use the meats gained only from monster hunting but are said to make some of the most delicious meals.

This is the first of 3 pictures commissioned from the great  pyromancy each one will deal with a rank of the school