☀️ Arselia and Akonia

But I believe you can come up with something just as good, if not better, for yourself and your comrades," he winks, "perhaps even with an eye toward our unique characteristics. But that's all, of course, plans for the distant future!

-- Yes, making everything the same isn't very interesting, so I'll be changing some things.

-- Well, the restriction of movement is compensated for by just one rune, and I know it; I used to apply it to my armor because I couldn't carry such heavy loads without penalties. At the current level of craftsmanship, I probably don't even need runes... Now I try to approach many issues more subtly; for example, creating heavy armor from small, interlocking, hard plates with flexible, but hidden, joints is quite possible. Like chainmail, only without holes. In fact, this is the principle of the skin of large reptiles, so yes, nothing new. The only caveat: it's obviously a matter of compromise; if you endow a design with some useful property, it will have fewer other advantages.