Armory Items

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Welcome one and all to the armory, where you can find a whole host of different weapons, shields and armor! If you’re struggling to find ideas on what weapons you want to have - look no more for we have a whole host of different weapons you’re bound to find one that will suit you. It’s great if you’re new here or if you’re looking to find something new to master!

**Gods allowed Stygian iron:** Hades, Melinoe, Thanatos

## ARMOR

**the bread and butter for any new demigod!**

These do not count towards weapons slots

### Helmets include:

*Illyrian* - open faced helmets with no nose protection, and a curved neck piece to protect the back of the neck

*Corinthian* - menacing helmets with protection for the nose and cheeks, almond shaped eye holes to look out of and a curved neck piece to protect the back of the neck

*Spartan* - much like the corinthian, with more square eye holes and sharper angular cheekbones with a red plume on the top

*Chalcidian* - lighter and less restrictive than the corinthian helmets, wider eye holes, smaller nose protection, no protection for cheek bones

### Body protection includes:

*Scale Armor* - many small armor plates of various shapes attached to each other.

*Chestplates* - including bell cuirass and muscle cuirass - covering the chest, abdomen and back

*Leather Spolas/ Linothorax* - lightweight leather or fabric armor

*Pauldrons* - Protects shoulder/armpit overlaps with other armor over the upper chest and back

*Poleyns* - metal plates that protects the knee

*Greaves* - a piece of metal armor that protects the shins and lower legs.

*Vambrace* - Protects the forearm, elbow to wrist

*Gauntlets* - hand to wrist protection

### Shields include:

*Hoplon shield* - big circular shield

*Kite shield* - shield shaped like a kite

*Buckler shield* - very small shield, circular in shape

*Dipylon shield* - full body length shields with two side openings

*Pelta shield* - crescent shaped shield

*Tower shield* - full body shield, rectangular in shape, very heavy

### Swords

**the staple of many warriors!**

*Xiphos* - leaf shaped, double edged, straight blade, one handed (45- 60cm)

*Falcata* - forward swept, single edged, curved blade, one handed (60cm)

*Kopis* - forward swept, single edged, curved blade, one handed (65cm)

*Gladius* - double edged, straight Blade, one handed (45 - 65cm)

*Falx* - sickle like shape, single edged, one/two handed (50 - 130cm)

*Spatha* - double edged, straight blade, one handed (50 - 100cm)

*Viking sword* - double edged guard, straight blade, one handed (70 - 100cm)

*Crusader* - cruciform guard, double edged, straight blade, one handed (70 - 95cm)

*Templar* - cruciform guard, double edged, straight blade, one handed (70 - 95cm)

*Longsword* - cruciform guard, double edged, straight blade, one/two handed (100 - 130cm)

*Bastard* - cruciform guard, double edged, straight blade, one/two handed (80 - 110cm)

*Backsword* - knuckle guard, single edged, straight blade, one handed (83 - 100cm)

*Claymore* - large crossguard, double edged, straight blade, two handed (120 - 140cm)

*Boar sword* - two sets of crossguards, double edged tip, straight blade, two handed (110 - 135cm)

*Broadsword* - basket or knuckle guard, double edged, straight blade, one handed (90 - 110cm)

*Smallsword* - knuckle or crossguard, double edged, needlelike, straight blade, one handed (60 - 83cm)

*Hook sword* - dual wielded, bladed guard, hook tip, straight blade, one handed (60 - 100cm)

### Heavy Weapons

**for those who like to pack a punch**

*Poleaxe* - axe like head atop of a long pole

*Staff* - heavy long pole

*Greataxe* - two handed axe, very large and heavy

*Warhammer* - like a greataxe, two handed weapon, heavy

*Scythe* - pole weapon with a curving single edged blade with the cutting edge on the concave side of the blade

*Morningstar* - spiked ball mounted on shaft of a pole, with a long spike extending straight from the top with smaller spikes around the head

*Labrys* - double headed axe

### Spears

**for those who like to have more ranged combat**

*Hoplite doru Spear* - spear with leaf shaped tip on either end

*Trident* - a spear like weapon with three prongs, can be thrown as well as wielded in a melee manner

*Bident* - a spear weapon with two prongs on one end, can be thrown as well as wielded in a melee manner

*Javelin spear* - lighter and shorter than normal spear, good for throwing long distances

### Smaller weapons

**for those sidearms**

*Tomahawks* - single handed axe lightweight

*Trench knife* - dagger like knife with knuckle duster type handle

*Kunai* - type of throwing knife (4 per weapons slot)

*Chakram* - throwing disk circular blade

*Machete* - a long knife shorter than a sword longer than a dagger

*Flail* - pole with a spiked ball attached to the end by a metal link chain

*Throwing knives* - they are knives that get thrown (4 per weapons slot)

*Dagger* - a small bladed weapon (2 per weapons slot)

### Bows

**for those that like to deal with danger before it’s in your face**

*Crossbow* - type of bow in which the bow stave is fixed crosswise to a stock, the string (and subsequently the bolt) is released by a digger to shoot the arrow/bolt.

*Recurve bow* - a bow with limbs that curve away from the archer when unstrung.

*Longbow* - a tall bow that makes a fairly long reach possible, the limbs are not particularly received, the limbs are narrow and circular or D shaped in cross section