Couldn't we probably do that with a single College boon from the Bright Order to have access to the armour to study it? (Which, of course, would mean putting more things on our plate to use AP on but the same reasoning applies to taking the armour for the purposes of study!)
Yeah we could, and even if we don't take the armor right now, I think that's something worth doing.
Can the same not be said of enchanted We-silk robes in the latter case? (Perhaps not literally in terms of being bulletproof... Or perhaps it is. We haven't tested it yet!)
This is the best argument I've seen against the armor, but ultimately I feel I'm putting my head through too many hoops to fully enjoy an admittedly awesome skyship. Besides, the part we were waiting on the silk for was Winning All Of Trade. If we had rolled well on making our current robes I doubt We-silk robes would have ever entered the discussion. The armor is amazing, plus it's legendary, plus it's aesthetic. It offers another step to every gear slot being a masterwork legendary item uniquely built around Mathilde.
The hard part of it would be to first get a big enough breeding population of trained hippogriffs, and then train the chicks of that generation (each of which takes roughly a year to become full-grown), and repeat until you have a stable population of hippogriff chicks that can imprint onto each knight of this hypothetical order.
The approval vote's there for the multiple College boons on my end for a reason! And, as said, if people are really interested in the armour for the purposes of study, there's always the option to swap out enchanting the gyrocarriage for access to it... In fact, I'll make a plan in that direction, just in case the above proves true.
I think it might stack with the actual silk, actually, as long as it's not enchanted. I'm assuming the armor is just that, armor, and wouldn't include breeches or a gambeson over which the armor would typically be worn, so Mathilde getting those articles made with We-silk would mean extra protection for what one would think would be vulnerabilities. Maybe even add a tabard of We-silk on top for added style and protection, and also kind of hide the armor from identification.
We would not include gambesson on the armor, because it is part of armor.
It's basically just accessorizing, at this point.
I don't really think studying it is going to pay a lot of dividends.
Replace "Gold" with "Grey." Plus, unlike the Phoenix Crown, the Armor of von Tarnus is readily available for Collegiate Wizards to study. It's right there. And the Brights are already the College that is most into enchantment, and unlike us von Tarnus was using the same Wind they are. So what I'm saying is that undoubtedly generations of talented Bright enchanters have poked at it when it's not in use, and yet it remains something that has not been duplicated or systematized. Odds that we can somehow do better without any advantages beyond "very good Windsight" (yes, we have the Enchanter trait, but what do you want to bet that some of the Brights who have studied it have had something comparable?) and at least one major disadvantage seem really bad: I certainly would not vote to spend AP on it, I would prefer to just take a stab at Windherded robes.
I've learned a lot from Boney. As a writer, always strive for prose that makes your readers clench their fists and mutter "So rad...."
Well, that and redundancy. There's enchantments for ignoring enchantments on armour, there's enchantments for going through armour like it isn't even there, and Aethyric Armour can be dispelled by a good spellcaster. But you'll be sorely pressed to find an enemy who's going to be carrying all three at once, or able to concentrate all three for the purpose of killing one person.
