Armorers Guild

Full Name

Guild of Hephaestian Men of the Mystery of Armour.

Overview

This is a specialised Armor making guild - specialised in the making of metal based armors, but most especially of Chainmails, Platemails, and the the more advanced Field and Plate Armors. 

Ordinances

The Armorers have the rights of search and control over Field Plate, and Plate Armour. The making of any armor that includes a Mail Component and the more advanced Plate Armors are all secretly maintained EXCLUSIVELY by this Guild. Only the Dwarven and Elven Smiths outside of Atlantis are said to know how to make the same materials, and they are said to be bound by Oath to never teach the skill.

The guild is not permitted to train any Weaponsmith, Bladesmith, or Blacksmith.  1. Armour made in this land being not good, the makers may be punished by the laws provided for the same. 2. It is a means to set a great number of Her Majesty’s subjects on work in this land, which now setteth a great number of foreigners on work in other lands.
3. It will furnish the land with skillfull men to make and fit armour to men’s bodies in far better order than it hath been heretofore.
4. We shall be provided within this land of good armour, what restrayntments or quarrels so ever be in other lands, whereas hertofore we have been beholding to other countries for very bad armour.
5. We shall be free from all those dangers that may ensue by the number of bad and insufficient armour which are brought into this land by unskilfull men that[185] know not what they buy and sell it again to them that know not where to have better for their money although they know it to be very bad.
Her Majesties armories at this parte are very weakly furnished and that wch remaynes is neither good in substance nor yet in fashion. So as if it might stande in wth yor. LL. good liking it is very needfull the same should be supplied wth better choise.


Established hall in 1428. Absorbed the Heaumers.

Standard Equipment in the Armorer's Forge
Anvils. [11]Bickiron.
[12]Sledge-hammer.
[13]Pincers and tongs.
[14]Tools for closing rivets.
[15]Shears.
[16]Bellows.
[17]Rammer (bellows?).
[18]Grindstone.
[19]Spindles (?).
[20]Bucket-hoops.
[21]Winches.
[22]Stone water-trough.
[23]Hearth-stick, poker.
[24]Cutting-iron, shears or cold-chisel.
[25]Marking-iron.

[28]Rivets.
[29]Round-horned anvil for making tubes.


[33]Helmet-stake.

[35]Shears.
[36]Heavy hammers.
[37]hammers for greaves.
[38](?)
[39]Riveting-hammer.
[40]Embossing-hammer.
[41]Files.
[42]Poker. the making of mail was a distinct craft which had no counterpart in other branches of smithing. At first the wire had to be beaten out from the solid, and thus the few fragments which remain to us of early mail show a rough, uneven ring of wire, clumsily fashioned and thicker than that of later dates. The invention of wire-drawing is generally ascribed to Rudolph of Nuremberg, about the middle of the fourteenth century

Specialised Armor Components The Forbidden Gauntlet A Gauntlet that prevents disarming by locking the weapon into the grip of the gauntlet. The gauntlet was sometimes capable of being locked, for the unfingered flap which covered the fingers was prolonged so as to reach the wrist, where it fastened over a pin. This was used in foot jousts to prevent the weapon from being struck out of the hand

Type

Guild, Professional