Ashin Cardé Varanin
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Honestly? Nobody's selling armor in the Vault yet.
- Image Source: Ludovic Plouffe
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Ancient Sith on Tash-Taral
- Affiliation: Select clients
- Market Status: Closed market
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: Each piece of the armor could be worn individually, in combination with other clothing or armor. Wearing the full set confers specific bonuses, detailed below.
- Production: Semi-unique
- Material: Ancient Sith alloys comparable to alchemised durasteel, weathered cloth, leather
- Classification: Other (specialized for defense against slashing and bashing melee weapons)
- Weight: Heavy
- Resistances:
- Energy: Extreme
- Kinetic: Extreme
- Lightsabers: Extreme
- Electrical: Extreme
- EMP/Ion: None
- Elemental: None
- Sonic: None
- Helmet
- Gorget
- Boots
- Hip faulds
- Knee poleyns
- Left-handed gauntlet with claws, concealed lanvarok, and elbow blade
- Signal horn (metal and terentatek-horn)
- Weathered cloth
- Beautiful Tashai/ancient Sith aesthetic
- Extreme protection against slashing or bashing attacks (energy or kinetic) to the head, neck/upper chest, shoulders, knees, shins, feet, hips, and left arm.
- Concealed lanvarok in left bracer (six silent shots: alchemical razor discs), triggered via the Force.
- Concealed blade in elbow of left bracer (deploys on impact, i.e. when elbowing someone).
- Light and mobile for heavy armor, as it is only a partial suit.
- Signal horn/trumpet can be heard for many miles. Especially likely to get the attention of Sithspawn.
- Can soak up lightning/electrical discharge for use by the wearer, a fairly common trait in classic Sith swords.
- Very patchwork coverage. No protection for lower chest, belly, back, groin, right arm, or thighs. If these partial suits of armor ever included such components, they have been lost to time.
- Exposed straps, vulnerable to slashing or grabbing.
- Force Light could crack the armor plates.
- Force suppression (e.g. ysalamiri) would prevent the horn from being especially likely to attract the attention of Sithspawn, and would prevent use of the concealed lanvarok.
- Battered golden sheen, definitely not stealthy.
- Vulnerable to stabbing, e.g. in the chest, back, eyes, or mouth.
- No protection against sonic weapons, EMP/ion weapons, heat, cold, or anything that hits parts of the body not covered by this armor.
The blacksmith Azel Moran bartered for three partial suits of armor on Tash-Taral several years ago. He used them as references, patterns, and teaching aids aboard the Pomojema.
So far as Moran could determine, the armor dates back as far as the oldest High Sith ruins on Tash-Taral, likely tens of thousands of years. It belonged to the long-gone tomb-guards of a nameless king. Many of the individual plates bear scars from slashing swords, axes, and the claws of gigantic Sithspawn, incurred over millennia of guardianship.
It is believed that, in the modern era,
Seydon of Arda
dispatched whatever the guards had become, and his sword Winterfang added fresh scars to the armor. Whether Seydon opted to keep another of these suits of armor is unknown to Moran. The provenance is murky enough that it's unknown whether Seydon left the rest of the cursed armor where it fell, or bartered it for provisions in Lasaraleen.
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