Warrior's Plate
Description
Much like an Apprentice's Blade, a battle smith who can construct a suit of warrior's plate without the assistance of her master is no longer considered to be an apprentice. Making the armour is a time consuming, exhausting process of repeatedly beating out the plates without allowing them to become too hot, then shaping and moulding the metal without allowing it to cool down too much. All of this is without any consideration for the trace amounts of orichalcum that must be added to the steel in precise quantities at precise moments, allowing the tiny amounts of ore used to permeate the entire suit. A mistake can often mean that a plate becomes brittle and must be melted down completely to recover the wasted orichalcum - and a particularly catastrophic failure of concentration can mean that the entire process begun again.
Despite this, the armour tends to be very much in demand. It is often cheap, compared to other suits of heavy armour that require extensive use of expensive components, but woe betide the warrior who thinks that the lack of polished orichalcum or tempest jade inlay means that they can discount the time and effort put into the armour by the smith.
Rules
- Form: Heavy Armour. Despite the name any heavy armour can be warrior's plate.
- Effect: While wearing this armour, you gain one additional rank of the endurance skill.
- Materials: Crafting a suit of Warrior's plate requires no special materials. It takes two months to make one of these items.