Headgear is a fun way to add colour, and I was trying to think of ways to develop some duckish individuality. I'd used Phrygian-esque styles in the past (sometimes going to full-on Pan Tang), and was playing with the curvature, when I thought...
Snails. Big snails!
Yum! (For ducks, that is...)
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A. A drake warrior (c. 1600) in Heroic or Quackford Panoply. He wears
what would later be called a Type IIIb mollusc-helm, made of bronze,
with a bronze mail neck-guard and minimal decoration. The armoured
mantle of leather and bronze across the shoulders is common among
duck warriors, as a focused defence against downward blows from
larger creatures. The falcata-style sword has a heavy, curved, singleedged
blade -- commonly used in a manner that aims to cripple a mansized
foe with severe injuries to the anterior quadriceps and
posterior tendons, it can sever a man's leg at the knee if of good
quality and wielded with sufficient force. The shield provides the
main article of defence; it is large and typically fairly heavy,
being required to deflect blows of considerable moment issued from
height. Its convex wooden frame is plated with a thin sheet of
bronze. The shield itself is decorated with the rune and depiction of
the Many-Mawed Mother: a demon who is usually considered to be a
duckish version of Gorgorma, said to possess eight-hundred and eightyeight
fanged bills. He also wears a typical durulz back-banner,
marked with colourful feathers. Banners provide not only a mode of
identification and personal expression, but also an atavistic link to
myth and (when waxed) some further control in the water.
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B. A drake noble (c. 1614) wearing a Type IIa mollusc-helm, wrought
from an actual snail-shell. Most mollusc-helms ware bronze; actual
examples of this form are relatively rare, and usually retained as
valued heirlooms. Image reconstructed from a pebble mural preserved
in the ruins of Stone Nest.
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C. A duck of some import (c. 1580s; note the neck-rings common to
many wealthy female durulz) wearing a Type VIa ceremonial helmet
famously taken as booty by the Lunars in 1613; also known as
the 'Carmen Miranda helm'. (*sigh* I knew it wasn't going to last.)
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