No. Armor of von Tarnus stacks. Regular ithilmar does not.
I pulled this up earlier during this vote, because the question naturally arose about why the Armor of von Tarnus was good when ithilmar exists, but it is flat-out better than standard ithilmar. It's really fucking good armor. But it's not winning the vote, and Deathbybunnies' idea is a good one.
If that's true, I'm pretty sure it's been superseded by a more recent ruling when discussing the Armour of Von Tarnus - ithilmar accepts enchantments and doesn't interfere with spellcasting but doesn't stack with AA.
The extra cost is spending the Boon, when we could instead just requisition the actual Legendary Best-In-Slot Wizard Armour in return for those discoveries, no additional Boon required.
Runes aren't confirmed, to my knowledge.
The current vote is a) the cost of 2 massive magical research achievements and the airship we're getting instead, and b) effectively over. I voted for the Armour of Von Tarnus too! But it's not happening.
Laurelorn can work ithilmar just fine, it just can't acquire any more, because it can only be found on Ulthuan. So it's arguably worth more to them than the Asur, but they can use it if they can get it.
The source of ithilmar is Ulthuan, Vaul's Anvil specifically, but you don't need to be in Ulthuan to craft with ithilmar. We were trading crates of ithilmar fragments that Talabheim locals thought were scales of a dragon Taal beat up.
Mobs of Chaos Iron Orcs? Beastmen/Goblins/Spiders in Nexus reclamation Hellwars? Greenskins in Silver Road Wars?
I mean, wizards go into battle unarmoured because wearing armour disrupts their spells. It's not a choice. The shirtless guy turns into a dragon, which comes with some really quite incredible natural armour; it's one of his big advantages.
Multicultural for the Old World, but not as multicultural as we could be. We'd need something from Cathay and/or Lizardmen. Dwarves - belt + sword. Elves - armor? Cathay - maybe something to replace the Boon of Hysh? Lizardmen - maybe a more effective grounding rod?
Yeah but unless we either take Johann with us literally everywhere or cut off our own arm and get a transplant, it's not exactly a guaranteed part of our 'first impression'. That bit with the Tilean witch-hunter that was quoted earlier didn't involve Johann, but did explicitly involve a first impression.
We already gave up the "world's stupidest talisman" from Cathay
Mathilde is not impressed with their enchantment ways.
I wouldn't be against enchanting the robes if we could wear them with the armour, but I think that adding runes to the armour instead if it's doable would be better. If the 3 runes on our Belt don't interfere with spellcasting, I don't believe runes on the armour would either.
Look, if Mathilde and Johann didn't grasp the intricacies of the Lore of Yin on their first examination of a magic item from that tradition, that's not Cathayan enchanters' fault!We already gave up the "world's stupidest talisman" from Cathay
Mathilde is not impressed with their enchantment ways.
Mathilde doesn't understand it, until the moment she does and sees its use, when she will always have understood it and seen its value.
I guess this means we can't get an ithilmar object smelted and remade into something else.
Fortunately, resizing an existing set of armour would still be doable. But wow, that's a harsh limit.
Come on. I know some of us would want to give Vlad the world's funniest surprise if he ever escapes the Sigmarites' clutches.
That wasn't an enchantment, though, it was a kind of charcoal shaped like a gem! And I'm given to understand that Cathay's magical institutions are thousands of years old. The Colleges are practically babies in some ways, compared to that.
