Jack of Irons

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Description

This useful armour is most often crafted in the form of a heavy arming jacket, usually with reinforced steel jack chains on the arms. It is popular with officers and sergeants in Marches and the League. A variant form of the jack of irons called the bloodiron shirt is crafted in Wintermark and Dawn, mixing weltsilver and mithril to provide a light-weight chain hauberk that covers the arms and upper legs and is worn under thick leathers (in Wintermark) or under mithril plate (Dawn).

In the the Marches it is also called a jack of chains; both names come from a legendary giant called variously Jack-in-chains, Jack-of-Irons and Bloody Jack. Wrapped in heavy chains and wielding a terrible spiked club, the massive creature is said to be twice the size of a man and impossible to kill. According to stories the creature recovers almost immediately from even mortal wounds, and limbs hacked off continue fighting. Popular tales suggest that the demonic horror was defeated by a girl variously known as Clever Jill and Wise Mary who tricks the beast into falling down a well from which it is unable to escape. The legend insists that the giant is still buried under the earth somewhere near the modern town of Wayford

Rules

• Form: Light Armour.
• Effect: Once per day you may spend ten seconds of appropriate roleplaying to repair one of your limbs that has been ruined by the cleave or impale call.
• Materials: Crafting a jack of irons requires twelve ingots of weltsilver, twelve measures of ambergelt, eight ingots of tempest jade and four measures of iridescent gloaming. It takes one month to make one of these items.

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