La Chattara

You can beat your opponent with strength, but to win you must have the style
-Translated from Edwar Guerrero's biography "The Heart of Chattara"

La Chattara is the major form of Dwarven Entertainment and sport. It serves as a national past time, and symbol of Dwarven culture. It is a combination of one-on-one combat, and showmanship. Combatants often adopt flamboyant characters and outfits and put great skill and consideration into performing for the fans.

while the combatants are in real and immidiate danger the element of showmanship and sport is an underlying agreement between athletes. Often they work together to put on a show.

weapons, and props are both common and allowed, but the use of magic within the ring is expressly forbidden.

La Chattara has a ranking system involving many levels. everyone must enter and work their way up from the bottom leagues, which have open entries all the way up to the Highest professional level. When you win you acquire specific coins that serve as a badge of rank and writ of entry into other leagues.

The most prestigious bouts take place in the Anillo De Piedra Arena in the city of La Puenta.