Armor at Diesmaar

[Daniel McSorley]

From: Kenneth Gauck

>>In actuality, Haelyn and Roele probably rode to the battle,
>>and then dismounted, the lack of stirrups making horseback fighting
>>impractical. Being the sons of the First House, they would have had the
>>best tools of war available: axes, swords, ringed mail, and iron-bossed
>>wooden shields.
>
>I always pictured Diesmaar as being a bronze age event.
>
In the BoP, it specifically describes Haelyn's shield as wooden with
iron, so I thought it was safe to assume they were into the iron age, at
least for such small things as mail and weapons.
Wouldn't it be an awfully fast advance, for them to go from bronze age to
a semi-renaissance in just 1500 years?

Daniel McSorley- mcsorley.1@osu.edu

[Kenneth Gauck]

Yeah, I came up my vision of Diesmaar before the BOP came out and am
reluctant to give it up. Diesmaar as Trojan war.

[Tim Nutting]

>Yeah, I came up my vision of Diesmaar before the BOP came out and am
>reluctant to give it up. Diesmaar as Trojan war.


Interesting...

I pictured Diesmaar as being early medieval (c 800 AD - Europe), with the
previous half millennia being sort of a dark age (The 500 years predating
the 3 year War of Shadow).

After Diesmaar, things got chaotic for a few years, and then calmed down.
Reole builds the Empire, and it advances to early renaissance by mid 800 HC.
Fall of Empire occurs, more dark age, and some recession, so Anuire, at
least in my mindset, is just now reaching the stages is might have been at
the height of empire technologically, but certainly not culturally (too
fractured).

Tim Nutting