Boarskin Vest
Description
To call this thick leather armour a 'vest' is misleading. Most often it takes the form of a tough leather berastplate, greaves and bracers worn over layers of either thin chain or lighter leather. It takes it's name from the tradtional materials used to make them, although it is also known as a bearhide vest or very occasionally a mammoth-hide hauberk in places where mammoths are hunted. The bearer is said to enjoy some of the legendary fortitude and bloody-minded stubborness of the animal the armour is made from. It is common for the armour to include a helmet decorated with the tusks or made from the head of the creature that provided the armour. Like many such pieces it is considered good luck for the warrior who will wear the armour to hunt and kill the animal in question themselves.
In the Marches this armour is considered quite primitive, but is popular with beaters and with those who are capable of single-handedly taking on and defeating a boar. It is considered very good attire for a Dawnish yeoman or poor knights looking to make a name for themselves.
In Urizen, they make a similar armour by alloying weltsilver and mithril to produce articulated plate armour usually called a mountainfall carapace that is usually polished to mirror-sheen brightness with ambergelt resin. Sentinels in mountainfall carapace are often advance scouts or mobile infantry, and small groups of them serve as covert messengers carrying important documents between spires.
Rules
- Form: Medium Armour.
- Effect: You gain two ranks in the Fortitude skill while wearing this armour.
- Materials: Crafting a boarskin vest requires twelve ingots of weltsilver, six measures of ambergelt. It takes one month to make one of these items.