Racial Motifs 27 : Pact Content . Ebonheart Pact Arms and Armor By General Holgunn One - Eye I ' m no writer , Jhunal knows , but here I am , taking up the quill again at the behest of King Jorunn – or his advisors , anyway . I haven ' t seen that young rascal of a monarch in days . Wonder what he ' s getting up to ? Anyway : I ' m supposed to summarize what our alliance arms and armor should look like , so the smiths and armorers all make them to uniform standards . I guess I can do that – by Shor ' s stones , I ' ve seen enough of them ! AXES We arm our Pact soldiers with axes based on traditional , proven Nord designs , only with Dragons stamped on them , because we stamp Dragons on everything in this alliance . Not that I ' m complaining – can ' t think of a better symbol for something you ' d better not mess with than a Dragon ! BELTS I like a nice , sturdy belt , without a whole lot of fiddly decorations on it that might snag your weapon ' s hilt when you try to draw it , understand ? If you ' re a soldier for the Pact , that ' s the kind of belt we give you . You want to get fancy , look to your chest piece and pauldrons . BOOTS Personally , I like the Pact military boots : plain steel - toed sabatons , practical and easy to keep clean . Like Nords , really , except for the easy - to - keep - clean part . ( Just kidding , Your Majesty ! ) But seriously , these are fine boots , though I admit they could be improved with a touch of fur . BOWS For our Pact archers , we took a Dark Elf composite bow and added a couple of grinning metal Dragon heads on the forward facing . They look great , and enable the archers to use the limbs of the bow to parry with , if necessary . CHEST PIECES All right , here ' s where we get fancy , with embossed Dragons and Argonian nature - designs and Dunmeri what - have - you , I don ' t know what those things are , but they look good . But don ' t be fooled by all the spangles and trim , these cuirasses aren ' t just for show : that ' s some solid steel and leatherwork , there . DAGGERS When it came to choosing a design for our Pact daggers , we turned to the Dark Elves , because when it comes to sticking somebody in the back – no , maybe I shouldn ' t say that . Anyway , you ' ll see the crossguard is adapted from Tribunal symbology , though we did slap a Dragon on it . GLOVES I wanted some serious Nord gauntlets for our Pact soldiers , but the Dunmer and Argonians said they wanted their hands kept pretty free , so I got overruled on that one . They ' re good gloves , though , with some decent mail on the back of the heavier versions . HELMETS I must say , we outdid ourselves on the Pact helms , which have some proper flaring wings and horns to them . Warms an old Nord ' s heart just to look at them . They ' re solid , too , let me tell you , good protection all around , with full visors . Good headgear . LEG GREAVES The front plates on the Pact greaves are nice and solid , and with enough trim to look good on dress parade , too . And I like the pointy poleyns on top – you want those when you ' re kneeing some milk - drinker in his stones . You do that to an opponent , you don ' t want him getting up again for a payback . MACES I like the one - handed Pact mace , it ' s a good , basic Argonian design : spikes , heavy round head , what more do you need ? I think we went a little overboard on the two - hander , though , what with its three roaring Dragon heads and all . Harder for the smiths to craft , and it won ' t knock your brains out any better than its simpler little brother . SHIELDS Pact shields take a basic Nord oval kite shape , and then add a bunch of spikes around the outside because , I don ' t know , the Dunmer and the Lizardfolk like lots of spikes . Oh , and we put a pair of big Dragons on the front just to remind our enemies which alliance is about to bash the crap out of them . SHOULDER ARMOR The Dark Elves from House Redoran insisted on big , flaring pauldrons , so that ' s what we gave them . And I have to hand it to them , they look good . Sometimes those fellows know what they ' re talking about . STAVES By now you know what our alliance symbol is , right ? So I ' ll give you one guess as to what we put on the heads of the staves of our Pact spellcasters . If you said " roaring metal Dragons , " give yourself a pat on the back . If you said anything else , soldier , you ' re standing guard duty tonight , because you ' re too dumb to be allowed to go into town . SWORDS Like I said , we adapted a Dark Elf design for our Pact daggers , and it looked so good we just up - scaled it for our warriors ' swords . Same straight blade , same semi - barbed point , same Tribunal - inspired crossguard with a Dragon stamped on it . Nice sword . Nothing like a good sword .