A dome of transparent malachite composite, reinforced against errant ashstorms by moonstone inlays. This helm is a bastardized form of those used by the Aldmer who first breached Aetherius.
When the Aldmeri Sun Birds perceived the primordial sea of energy beyond the sun and stars, they trembled with mania at a truth unknown to those on Mundus below.
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Dunmer Glass Cuirass
Item Type
Cuirass - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
A cuirass of glimmering volcanic glass, modified for Vvardenfell's heat with wraps of willow anther linen. Those who lack knowledge of advanced smithing often believe the armor is a work of the divines.
It is not known whether early gods possessed anthropomorphic forms or took shapes exceeding mortal comprehension. Mer, who claim ancestry with them, tend to believe the former.
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Dunmer Glass Gauntlets
Item Type
Gauntlets - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
Gauntlets crafted using an ancient Aldmer technique, but incorporating the organic designs preferred by Dunmer. Their viridescent plating shines with the light of Aetherius' fallen fragments.
Rare individuals are born with the innate ability to perceive past and future in the stars, tracing a finger across the firmament to gaze through Time.
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Dunmer Glass Boots
Item Type
Boots - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
Factious cells of malachite fastened over boots by strider silk wraps. Despite the elegant materials, the boots are hardened by the land in which they were made.
Among Saint Veloth's procession was master smith Anrahu the Keen, who knew the secrets of Aldmeri forging. Though retaining vestiges of her decadent forebears' designs, her armor saw changes that mirrored those of her people.
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Dunmer Glass Pauldrons
Item Type
Pauldrons - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
Pauldrons of volcanic glass, flared outward to symbolize wings in flight. Their coruscant surface brings to mind the legend of Auri-El, an avian god from the War of the Dawn who clad himself in starlight.
It is said that when the Aedra departed Tamriel to cement themselves in the sky, Auri-El fired the immortal heart of his fallen adversary into the eastern sea.
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Dunmer Glass Greaves
Item Type
Greaves - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
Gleaming emerald greaves that wrap your legs like brilliant scales. Often found hidden beneath the flowing robes of elven war sorcerers.
The Chimer sages who guided the great pilgrimage into the East are said to have illuminated their path with the quivering light which flows through the core of all things.
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Dunmer Glass Buckler Shield
Item Type
Buckler Shield - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
A light malachite shield patterned with ramifying tree roots, bisected by interwoven vines, and brandishing a crescent moon at its heart.
To the Dunmer, Nirn's moons symbolize the sacred twilight, a time of mystery, poetry, and lust.
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Dunmer Glass Shield
Item Type
Standard Shield - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
This shield of pure malachite is forged into the delicately curving form of an eye. Within its iris, a subdividing circle depicts a pale flower.
A mad, nameless prophet of the Ashlands once spoke of mortals as fractal - describing each soul as a falling petal plucked from a single amaranth flower.
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Dunmer Glass Tower Shield
Item Type
Tower Shield - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
The grandiose form of this shield invokes the prismatic spires bejeweling the land from which the glassworking techniques were stolen.
Over millennia, Summerset's isolationism has seeded rumors of an impossibly beautiful and mystical realm with palaces of light, and glass towers shaped like dragonfly wings.
Christopher Korkos
