Plate armor

From: Jeff Richard <richaje_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:00:17 -0700

>>*ISTR the "High Council" writeup ended with the
*Lunars banning plate armour in Sartar. That implies that they possessed it to ban. Not all that primitive.<<
>I always assume this was a RQ'ism and came from the RQ
>adventurers love of plate. I assume Greg's players
>were just like any others on this score. In addition
>I'd assume that it was probably Lunar hoplite plate in
>origin, not western full plate. I would guess that
>there are Heortlings with scavanged armor around,
>especially as the HW progress.

I think Ian's right. All though I believe that the Heortlings are more technologically sophisticated than the Iron Age British, I do not think that they make use of western full plate. I think they periodically ('frex, during the later Gbaji Wars, during the wars over Saird in the Second Age, and so on) make use of things like plate cuirasses, but ultimately rejected them in favor of chain as the preferred armor of elite warriors.  Jeff

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