Raider Pauldrons

You grunt a command to the scouts, and they sneak off into the underbrush with their spears in hand. Your hunting party searches the woods--not for food--but for the rush and excitement of finding a fresh elven kill.

Soon the scouts return with news of an elven encampment ahead, and your fellow orcs share toothy, eager smiles. Dressed in your Raider Armour, you set out into the night in the direction of unsuspecting prey.

DETAILS

Epic Armoury’s Raider Shoulders is a worn and rugged piece of armour protecting the front of your shoulders. Consisting of a spaulder and three overlapping metal pieces The overlapping pieces are held together with two parallell leather straps that keep the joins flexible yet cohesive. The spaulders have a leather strap that can be fastend to a breastplate and another leather strap at the lower part of the armor that is used to wrap around the user's arm. When these two leather straps have been fastend the Raider shoulders offer a high degree of movement and agility. This steel riveted piece has been treated with Epic Armoury's Epic Dark Metal and a speckled brown coat to give the armour a rusted, well used finish.

The Raider Armour is embellished to look eerily like a beast’s flesh. Made of 1 mm thick galvanized mild steel and top-grain leather straps and fittings, this armour piece is built to withstand the abuse of a LARP or reenactment with regular leather and metal armour care.

INSPIRATION

• Based on orc costuming, which is a creature whose earliest references are found in Old English and Anglo-Saxon sources, such as in Beowulf and in 16th century Italian folktales