Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-26347028-20160815113037/@comment-26863727-20160819225245

Aramirtheranger wrote: I never said he moved. And besides, his shoulder is armored in plate, and his whole torso and arms are covered with silk gambeson. The first bullet-proof vest consisted of silk. In 1881, Tombstone physician George E. Goodfellow noticed that a man who was shot twice had the first bullet stopped by his silk handkerchief, even though the force pushed it into his body anyway(keep in mInd these were still black powder guns). Over the next six years he experimented with gambeson-like silk vests of thicknesses ranging from 18 to 30 layers. And they worked! Tests at the Royal Armory indicate that if Archduke Ferdinand was wearing his when he was assassinated in 1914 it would have stopped a bullet of that era too. So, really, Marius can only be hurt in melee or by arrows to the face. Obviously, it wasn't known that silk was so good at stopping projectiles when the elite-of-the-elite Atmoran fighters started using gambesons made of it- though they found out soon enough that their status symbol was more than for looks!