Guruhoro said: Boy, that must chafe something awful. There's a reason thick leather clothing was worn under chainmail...
Not just chafing, but chainmail armor with no leather underneath was prone to be hit by a weapon and pushed into the skin so hard it could puncture it and be tangled inside. Not good.
Guruhoro said: Boy, that must chafe something awful. There's a reason thick leather clothing was worn under chainmail...
People actually thinking of the comfort of the girl in the impractical clothing? Well, I never! There's a lot of art with clothing designs that irk the shit out of me as a woman but what can you do about it when it's fictional...
ezekill said: There is a sword similar to this, and its the Kriss.
Keris don't go to this size. Usually the curvy ones are shortsword-length at the very largest (13-curved Javanese ones comes to mind, the straight variants tend to be longer though), and most are daggers. Ornamental daggers, even. There's even an adage by my friend that a Keris isn't meant to be used to parry... it's much better on delivering coup-de-grace. Also, curvy swords like that wouldn't cut well and would be quite a female dog to pull out after you stab someone.
papugure said: Under certain conditions, it would also be an excellent way to quickly develop frostbite.
I'm going to call this one counter intuitive.
Plus that armor, i couldn't help but to agree. Still pretty hawt though.
