Stomping Boots

'Crush the enemy beneath your boots' taken literally.

Stomping Boots are heavy, enchanted boots that allow their wearer to stride across the land (and their enemies) with the impact of giants.

Description

Made with leather and reinforced with bands of iron, the Stomping Boots are massive and weighty. When not in use, they can be difficult to even move by one person. The soles are hard and rigid, with sharpened studs at random intervals across its surface, binding together the magic of the boots. The iron bands are sometimes inscribed with symbols of power or studded with the Earth components that went into its construction - usually in the form of gemstone or unusual metal. Even though the weight is significantly reduced when worn, the boots are not easy to use. Moving with them on is slow and uncomfortable, and only the strong can make full use of them.
When the wearer of the Stomping Boots walks, the ground shakes. When they slam their feet down, it breaks - causing damage many times the size and weight of the wearer would suggest. Experienced wearers can direct the impact, causing cracks or fissures in the ground or integrating small stomps when they fight to throw opponents off balance. The consequence is no lesser on fallen foes, smashing bone and rending flesh as surely as if they were stomped by an elephant or other great beast.

Wearer needs to be careful, as stepping too hard can unleash the stomp without meaning to.

Stepping into mud, water, or any other unstable surface can swiftly bring ruin to the wearer of the Stomping Boots. Even without the Stomp, the weight is enough to send the wearer plummeting to the bottom of the ocean. There are stories of Stomping Boots even collapsing parts of castle walls, with the hapless wearer going tumbling down with everyone else.

Construction

Stomping Boots are made with the leather of something of massive; elephants, Dracoracnids, even Giants are used. The larger the prey used for the leather, the greater effect the boots ultimately have, with mages having to temper their enthusiasm with practicality. If the effect of the Boots is too great, then every step is a small earthquake and as much danger to the wearer as anyone else. The iron used can come from any source, but ore mined from an Earth Demesnes will often function as both metal and magic component.
Six Earth magic components are sacrificed or incorporated for the construction of the Stomping Boots.

Rarity - Power

Moderate

Magic Used

Earth

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Thunderclap Sandals

A smaller, lighter variant of the Stomping Boots, Thunderclap Sandals has less impact and less weight. They focus on smaller jolts to disorient or unbalance opponents, and are popular with some schools of martial arts. They are much much the same way, but with much less material and greater finess.

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