COPPER ARMOUR I while back, i posted about "woven" copper-leafed armour used by Wood Lords....David Dunham replied [quite rightly] that weaving was making[ugh]. This gave me cause to ponder...
Perhaps when i used the term "weaving", i was in error. I now
believe that the Armouring Ritual used involves the Senior Gardener and the
repient of the New armour to approach the sacred copper-leafed tree
[possibly only on holy days?]. The Gardener begins the ceremony with a
Growing Song [a spell] and the recipient casts [or sacrifices] POW to the
tree [the amount of POW possibly effecting the protection afforded by the
Armour?]. While singing the Growing Song, the Gardener "manipulates" the
branches, leaves or fronds of the tree, "drawing" them out and around the
recipients body, interlacing the stems so that a coat similar to scale is
created. Part of the effects of the song is to increase the plasticity of
the stems/branches to permit such manipulation.
The final act is to sever the armour from the parent tree. I suggest that it
survives much as Ian's Elf Bow. The armour would be fashioned so that it
overlaps over one shoulder...getting dressed requires prying it open and
slipping it on [like solid bronze greaves].
THE NAKED TRUTH
David's comment also got me thinking about the nature a Aldryami
garb in general. What do they wear? What is it made of? My own
inclination/conclusion is that Aldryami do not wear clothes! Why should
they! Clothing is just a human-thing after all. And many Human tribes
[Amazonian Tribes or the African Dinka Forex] don't use clothing nor attach
any status or shame to nakedness. It sets the Aldryami apart from their
human [the "covered, or hidden, ones"] neighbours again [a good thing] and
dispells another tolkienism!!!
All IMO, of course!
Howard
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