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Bands of plate that cover the shoulder and part of upper arm but not the armpit. Pauldron: 15th: Covers the shoulder (with a dome shaped piece called a shoulder cop), armpit and sometimes the back and chest. Gardbrace: Extra plate that covers the front of the shoulder and the armpit, worn over top of a pauldron.
In Book 5, they are unbanished by the Fairy Queen and are transformed to their true forms: men in golden armor with large wings. Some of their names are Peredor , Denwin , Targoron , Silvestrus , Rostimus , Crelang and Gilgarol , who was the Captain of the Astrids.
A pauldron typically consists of a single large dome-shaped piece to cover the shoulder (the "cop") with multiple lames attached to it to defend the arm and upper shoulder. On some suits of armour, especially those of Italian design, the pauldrons would usually be asymmetrical, with one pauldron covering less (for mobility) and sporting a cut ...
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos is an adventure module and campaign guide for using the Strixhaven setting, from the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, in the 5th edition.
Despite the armor being commonly associated with the Romans, the technology behind the lorica segmentata was old by the time it was introduced into the Roman infantry. The Dendra panoply is an example from the 15th century BC of articulated plate defense using a similar technique of overlapping curved plates.
Splint armor (also splinted armour, splint armour, or splinted armor) is armor consisting of strips of metal ("splints") attached to a cloth or leather backing. It is most commonly found as limb armor such as greaves or vambraces .
Typically, they are a single plate of steel or iron covering the shoulder with bands joined by straps of leather or rivets. By the 1450s, however, they were often attached to the upper cannon or rerebrace , a feature that continued into the 16th century.
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