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The Eldari are the only race on Asuron known to have preserved the secrets of steel and contiguous plate armor. And yet, for all that, they are not a war-like people. Designing something that embodied military superiority without implying aggression was pretty difficult, but this is what I came up with.

If anyone out there is interested in helping make this armor a reality, please let me know.
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A Note on Armor:
Since I am making an effort to build a true role-playing game design, this means expanding player freedom significantly, especially in terms of choosing how to dress one's character. Unlike armor in Oblivion, armor in Realms of Asuron: Nordania will not offer defensive bonuses. Instead, each armor set will differ only aesthetically, and a select few may also bestow reputation bonuses for their associated factions.
At this time, I do not anticipate many armors to be immediately available (especially faction armor), so expect lots of modified vanilla sets. I lack the proper software to do otherwise, and besides, would prefer to have more talented artists join the project to create them. Aside from sheer personal enjoyment, this is exactly why I produce concept art: so that those interested in working with me know that I have the ability to thoroughly discuss and understand artistic projects.

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  1. Myst42
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    I could... "help"

    I wont make an entire armor right now, too many projects on my hands
    But if you have models, textures and anything similar I could help with modifications

    Making it for you is just too much work right now, but assistance is within my possibilities
    1. ZekAonar
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      I understand. That said, I can think of one such smaller task: signs with garbled runic text. I could basically turn these into 'activators' which display directions when highlighted (Morrowind had these). I would especially love to have some generic road signs like that since I'm already in the process of plotting settlements and drawing road networks. And while I'm on the subject of signs, I would be totally okay with any other category of generic sign -- for taverns, shops, etc. Some white-gold banners for Tyrendar would be useful as well, and I can always make use of new road textures (the vanilla set is quite limited).

      If it has anything to do with city architecture, I can make use of it right now, but of course, I'm happy to accept just about anything, really. Let me know if there's anything in particular you feel you have the most knowledge about
  2. Tobjoern
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    Doesn't look bad! Nice design!
    To be honest plate armors are not my favorite type of armor (and maybe the pauldrons could be somewhat smaller) but it's a good start!
    1. ZekAonar
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      Thanks for the feedback! I actually feel the same about plate armor (in the words of Maro Rufus at The Best Defense, 'So heavy! So ugly!' xD), and have been considering a scale armor approach instead. Scale mail is still fairly advanced for ' Dark Age' medieval tech, right? Shrinking the pauldrons is a nice suggestion. Large pauldrons are probably impractical in an actual combat situation.
    2. acorntwo
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      Scalemail, and platemail, would be in reach of their technology. What would take better skills and technology, would be articulated plate (basically several pieces of overlapping, rivetted sheets of steel). Such armor would be stronger and lighter than the large shells normally presented as plate; also providing superior protection, and flexibility, of elbows and knees.

      Incidently, also harder to represent in a 3D model without obscene numbers of polygons.