Leather Armor (Chapter)

Introduction/Clarification
Leather armor often shows up on lists of banned equipment within The Empire. While not explicitly banned as an armor go-to, it is regulated to certain zones. Outside of auxiliary exemptions and items for training purposes, no warrior may utilize leather armor on their torso.
The rational behind banned leather torso armor is deeply founded in armor policies pre-armor tier. BAck then all armor was considered the same in terms of effectiveness, leaving the empire in a position where they wished to promote realistic armor, an easy way of doing this was to prohibit leather torso armor. The ban is ultimately a combination of uniform, realism, and socialization. Verdite attempts to push its members into acquiring realistic armor. We do not wish to venture into the natural progression of leather chest armor, which becomes increasingly less realistic and gamey. We feel like you'd wear armor to survive, not just to get that game-advantage.
Tier-Protection
Leather armor, unsurprisingly, is considered leather-tier in terms of protection and is considered the weakest of all armors.
Leather offers protection in the following ways:
# Leather armor is immune to single-green damage, even if previously struck with a blue weapon
# Leather armor can 'block' one point of blue damage before breaking
# Leather armor offers no protection from Red, Double-Green, Yellow, or Black damage.
#* However, leather head armor is immune to Yellow and White damage.
Lt.png|Leather protection
Examples
Leather1.jpg|Leather Armor
Leather.jpg|Leather Arms
Leather brac.jpg|Leather Bracers
100503_2_.png|Torso armor