Masked Cataphracts

From: Keith Nellist <keithnellist_at_8WOEmOJEvndacfr6z0fGjze3hq1R7_k_pPqMeJpaZYY5kzVJUd8w6QtlZAoQdDs>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:58:27 -0000

I had the Brass Cataphracts as an elite unit in my Carmania during the Blood Kings War, and they were masked.

I believe their is an illustration of a masked cavalryman in Tarsh War.

Keith

> Hm, I have been thinking about the "masked helmets" that the Late
> Roman 'cataphracts" are believed to have worn (note: not an
> archaeologist!) and thought that creepy masked Carmanian cavalry might
> be neat.
>
> "Obviously" the mask is worn to Seperate the cavalryman from his
> human, mortal, doomed-to-die, foe. Perhaps implacable Humakt himself
> rides behind the stern metal visage? The masks might also be like the
> cloth in your story:
> "Let the Black Saint kill your fear; cover your face with His; become
> your metal skin, send them swiftly-surely to the Bridge of Death".
>
> Or something like that.
>
>
> --
> John Machin
> "Nothing is more beautiful than to know the All."
> - Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.
>