I'm Also Not Sure About The "female Knights Would Have Worn Corsets Over Maille" Thing, If Only Because

I'm also not sure about the "female knights would have worn corsets over maille" thing, if only because by the time corsets fully came into fashion - mid-to-late 16th century - , pretty much no one wore maille anymore, except for the Russians and the Ottomans - and even then, it was usually reinforced with plates.

Illustrations of female knights (usually mythological figures like Penthesilea below) in medieval manuscripts do sometimes show them wearing a kind of form-fitting cuirass almost resembling the later anima cuirass, but these are probably artistic license.

A hard lesson I only had to learn once.

It’s been six years and I can still remember the blisters on my hips. lol

A Horseman’s Hammer. Commission work Very loosely inspired by the beautiful M.538-1956 kept at the Victoria and Albert Museum, but the customer liked dragons, so I went for dragons, and more dragons and then some. Tool steel head with selective hardening. Steel plates over wooden core. All surfaces etched with….dragons. Grip is leather over wood with silver wire. OAL 635 mm, head is 115 mm wide, weight 973 g.

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Dogs of War

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@racstaz

Yeah but what if our deathwatch marines were Slaves to Darkness Chaos Champions?

“My name is Tanau Aleya. I am of the anathema psykana, what used to be called a null-maiden, or – even stupider – a Sister of Silence. Who came up with those titles? Not one of our order, that’s for sure. Probably a High Lord. They’re mostly idiots.”

— The Emperor’s Legion, Chris Wraight