Light Armor Forging

Light Armor Forging
By
Revus Sarvant
There are two classes of light armor, metallic and non-metallic. Elven and Glass are metallic light armor. You may be surprised to think that Glass can be thought of as metallic, but appearances are deceiving. What we call Glass is nothing like the window panes you see in houses. The greenish material is far stronger and has a much higher melting point.
Non-metallic armors are Hide, Studded, Leather, and Scaled. For these armor types, the larger is as much tailor as blacksmith. All use large pieces of leather, stitched together with leather strips.
Studded armor also needs iron ingots, from which you will make the studs and metal rings tha tmake it more effective than simple hide. Scaled armor uses steel instead of iron, but the steel is infused with Corundum to make the metal inserts stronger.
For centuries the secret of making Elven armor was a closely guarded secret on Smmerset Isle. Then the Betrayal of Ulvul Llaren broguht it to the rest of Tamriel. Ulvul was a Dark Elf slave, working the bellows for Nuulion, master smith of the isle from the fifth through the seventh century of the second era. When Ulvul escaped, he coudl think of no greater punishment to mete out to his cruel master than to reveal all his secrets to the world. Thus we came to know that Moonstone is the key ingredient in Elven armor, and that salt water must be used to quench the hot metal.
For Gilded Elven armor, you msut also meld in Quicksilver. It melts at a much lower heat than Moonstone, making ti tricky to work the two metals together.
The trickiest of all is Glass. Hammer blows struck across the grain run the risk of shattering the armor. Its principal ingrediant is Malachite, although it also requires Moonstone to give it the right strength.
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