Wyvernsting Spaulders

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Description

Where possible a set of wyvernsting spaulders is crafted from leather taken from an actual wyvern; when this is not available, drake hide is substituted. In a few cases leather is covered with a layer of snakeskin, or leather taken from lizards such as alligators, is used instead. The spaulders are usually combined with vambraces of similar material and design, often with a belt or pectoral to match.

Wyvernskin spaulders are occasionally called wyrmhide pauldrons, although the name is a misleading reference to legends of poisonous reptillian creatures rather than to the [{Eternals]] of Night. The Navarr and those who live in certain areas threatened by massive insects call them venomskin chitin and make them from insect shells. In the same fashion, Freeborn and League magicians with access to the shells of great crabs often use them in the creation of the mage armour - while there are few poisonous crabs, those few that do exist have lead to this mage armour being called mudpebble carapace or sometimes, when fancifully decorated, pufferfish stingmail.

Much like the Mountainfall Bracers and Spintering Gorget this mage armour allows a magician to channel the power of a spell - in this case the venom incantation - much more efficiently, allowing them to poison many more opponents during a day.

Rules

• Form: Mage Armour. Despite the name any mage armour may be a splintering gorget.
• Effect: You may cast the paralysis spell for 1 mana rather than 2 mana.
• Materials: Crafting a splintering gorget requires twelve measures of ambergelt, six measures of iridescent gloaming and five measures of dragonbone. It takes one month to make one of these items.