Sylvan Plate Armor

Armor Protection against normal flame, all saving throws against non-magical fires are made at +1; wooden armor floats, causing the wearer to bob like a cork if moving through water greater than 3-ft deep. Rare

Elven and half-elven PC’s may opt for a new selection of armor available only to those races. It is wooden armor manufactured from the extremely hard Ipp tree growing in abundance within Gnarley Forest.   Ages ago, the elves discovered the means to shape the hardwood tree which grows in abundance on the Usher Arm Peninsula (but is otherwise rare elsewhere on the continent). The wood, when properly cured, is light and contains some properties in its sap which makes it semi-resistant to flame.   Through a process mastered only by the elves, they have acquired the ability to shape and carve the wood into a light weight, effective form of plate mail armor. Typically, the armor is carved with sylvan images, and scenes depicting the life of the individual, or of the individual’s clan, or tribe.   Properly made, the armor has the same protection rating as that of chain mail, with the movement properties of high-quality scale mail armor. The wooden plates offer the wearer protection against normal flame, so that all saving throws against non-magical fires are made at +1. Further, the wooden armor floats, causing the wearer to bob like a cork if moving through water greater than 3-ft deep. However, after several hours of immersion in water, the plates will become water-logged, and will draw the wearer down as would metal plate armor.   Damaged plates must be repaired by a craftsman within an elven village. Generally, such repairs cost twice the amount of similar repairs made to its metal counterpart.   Thaelmarthir plate armor costs double that of normal plate mail armor, and takes 6 months to create. Experience / g.p. value: 1,500

Cost: 1000