Blackstone Armor

Users: | * Naglfar
	+ The Seax
	+ The Twinblade
	+ The Fist

**Blackstone Armor** is a magical suit of armor of Myrkálfar design and Naglfar's equivalent to Raider Armor in *Little Witch Academia: Witches of Midgard*.

## Description & Characteristics

Blackstone Armors are magically forged armors originally designed by Myrkálfar, dark elves native at Sválftalfheim and cousin race of Dökkálfar from Alfheim, to improve the wearer's combat parameters and thus allow him/her to take on most formidable of adversaries. While each armor's design and abilities is different, they all endow the wearer with increased strength, endurance, stamina, speed, magical resistance, heightened healing factor, enhanced magics, and enhanced senses; it makes them highly formidable combatants against the strongest of Valkyries and members of Obsidian Dragons. As with other forms of Myrkálfar technology, Blackstone Armors are fashioned from Niflheim magic-infused obsidian rocks.

### Variations

There are two iterations of Blackstone Armor:

#### Original Iteration

According to Sucy, the original iteration of Blackstone Armor will fuse into the wearer's skin upon activation, during which they grow in size signifying increased physical strength and durability. The price of this power boost is the wearer has less than 30 mins of combat use before the Armor begins to freeze him/her to death from inside out and there's no escape. As such, it was only deployed as a desperate measure and eventually rendered obsolete in the light of development of revamped iteration.

#### Revamped Iteration

When a splinter group of Myrkálfar survivors joined Naglfar sometime prior to Thapoli-Naglfar War, the secrets of Blackstone Armor fell to the hands of the cult also. To create the safer and more efficient version of the Armor, Erik the Ageless made extensive changes in the original design as well as adding new features; the revamped iteration is a removable combat garment that can no longer kill the wearer, let alone bound to a time limit or increasing his/her body mass upon activation. In addition of the ability to fly and levitate indefinitely in the air thus giving the wearer enhanced mobility and height advantage to spot foes and attack them on sight, the Armor can be customized to suit the wearer's combat style and even induce some psychological effect upon foes. If anything, Naglfar's variant of Blackstone Armor is essentially the answer to Valkyrie Armor, Dragon Armor, and Raider Armor.

## List of Armors

TBA.

## Notes & Trivia

* As some elements of *Little Witch Academia: Witches of Midgard* series references tokusatsu series *GARO*, the basis of Blackstone Armor as dark counterparter to Valkyrie Armors is Demon Beast Armor. Like the latter, Blackstone Armor belonged to antagonists who use them to counter the might of Valkyrie Armor just like Demon Beast Armor does to Makai Armor.
	+ The armor also underwent some changes throughout its development where it initially conceived as magical armors forged from magic energy of Helheim. With updates and other revisions to the series' lore, it has been decided that the armor is crafted from Niflheim magic-reinforced rocks from Svartalfheim. Latter concept was decided ro give the armor ties to Myrkalfar.
		- In addition of Soul Metal-based Demon Beast Armor utilized by Octavia in *GARO: The Carved Seal of Flames*, the concept of early variants of the armor also influenced by Kurse Stone, mystical stone utilized by Dark Elves from *Thor: The Dark World*. Interestingly, both said race and the armor's original developers, Myrkalfar, are based on either Svalftalfar or Dökkalfar from Norse Mythology.