User blog comment:Deathkin12/Champion Concept: Lissandra, the Ice Dervish/@comment-71.97.110.23-20130318192813

There are numerous variants of what a dervish is.

If you use a traditional sense, a dervish is a holy mendicant, who took a vow of poverty to teach them of humility. On top of that, they were not allowed to beg for their own good, but to donate it to the benefit of other empoverished people. Or, if you prefer the Somali Dervishes, which were a faction of people who carved a claim out of the Somali lands.

If you go into the various Fantasy versions of Dervishes, who were most likely adopted from the "Whirling Dervish" dances of the traditional dervishes listed above, there are several kinds.

DnD 3.5: The Dervish was a dancing scimitar-weilding warrior who wove through the battlefield.

Guild Wars: The Dervish was a scythe weilding warrior who had Mystic powers that it wove into it's attacks, chiefly elements associated with arid conditions (Sand, Earth, Wind). It also performed spinning attacks with the scythe.

Accompied is a Wikipedia entry for Dervish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervish

If she's going to have the "Dervish" title. Make her have a more traditional Dervish weapon. At the very least something of Muslim or Arabian origin. A ring blade? Really?