STEAM ARMOR
INFORMATION
- Type: Suit of Armor
- Origin: Skalus Kingdom
- Faction: Dragons’ Alliance
- Users: Dragon soldiers
- Materials: Steel, leather, water
GAME INFORMATION
- Armor Type: Unobtainable armor
- Benefits: Protects the wearer, augments wearer’s physical and fire-breathing abilities
DESCRIPTION
The Steam Armor is a historic suit of armor once used during the Dragon-Elvarian War. Although no longer mass-produced, the Steam Armor remains as the absolute zenith of armor design on Frydar Island, with its legacy being well known to smiths of all races and generations.
The story of the Steam Armor begins near the end of the Dragon-Elvarian War. As General Lucas Fygoon of the Dragons’ Alliance was incarcerated in the brig of the Nemesyda, the Dragons loyal to him recollected their horrific experiences of fighting the Jumping Jacks: Elvarian super-soldiers that, once deployed onto the battlefield, were nearly impossible to slay. Intrigued by the Dragons recollecting how, through their personal experiences, the Jumping Jacks’ only weakness was their flammable tunics, General Lucas Fygoon began to work on a design for personal armor that could augment the ability to breathe fire. While designing the armor, General Fygoon sought the input of the Dragons loyal to him on how to improve the design, since they were the ones who would wear the armor into battle. After a few sessions, the completed schematics described a highly mobile suit of armor that augmented the wearer’s physical abilities with steam; as an added bonus, General Fygoon designed the helmet in such a way that it can pressurize and blast blistering hot steam from the “nostrils” to blind and maim the Jumping Jacks before setting them alight. After Basileus Viktor Fygarin abdicated the throne to General Lucas Fygoon, the new Basileus began his rule by ordering the newly immigrated Rodents to work on the armor design to gauge their technical abilities; when the Rodents returned with a fully functioning prototype, the Basileus was so impressed that he immediately ordered the mass production of the armor for the Dragons. Now armed with the Steam Armor, the Dragons led the Dragons’ Alliance to victory against the Grand League of DarkWater Island before evacuating DarkWater Island and razing it with the Doom Dragon. Their purpose served, the suits of Steam Armor were decommissioned and neutralized before being gifted to the Dragon soldiers as a reward for their heroism; in the centuries since, most of the mass-produced suits of armor were lost, but the original suit used by Basileus Lucas Fygoon surprisingly remains in the possession of Joseph Fygoon, his descendant.
The Steam Armor is used by Basileus Joseph Fygoon primarily as an ornamental piece. Since the end of the Dragon-Elvarian War brought the end for the need of such a vicious suit of armor, the Steam Armor spends its days idly sitting atop its armor stand and being polished by its new owner. One can only empathize with the Steam Armor’s longing for the past, for a time when it felt needed and was lauded by all who beheld it. Luckily for the forlorn armor, many Frydarian smiths continue to sing the praises of the ingeniously evil design of the Steam Armor and have attempted to make a successor; unfortunately, the projects to develop a successor to the original Steam Armor ended in explosive failure.
