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ArmorCombatEquip
StackableConsumable
Bonuses
- Armor
- 5
Heavy plate worn over padded gambeson, the outer face studded with iron spikes set a hand apart in a grid that refuses to soften for the wearer's silhouette. Moving the arms shifts the spikes in a way nobody nearby is allowed to forget.
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Chronicle
A pattern out of the northern fortress-tradition, worn by the sergeants who fight the front of a shield-line because a backing rank pressed too close will learn why the spikes are there. The plates are forged as a set, and a matched suit is accompanied by a small bundle of spare spikes, since anything driven hard enough into an enemy tends not to come back with the owner. Tailors refuse the commissions for travel cloaks that go over the suit, on the reasonable grounds that tailoring is not supposed to be a contact sport.