A helm of ridged steel and bullhide ribbons draped to guard the neck against harsh sunlight during long marches.
Soldiers of the Third Legion placed the helms of their dead atop standing blades at the conclusion of each battle. On the bloodiest fields of Tiber Septim’s conquest, one can still find hills crowned by blades.
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Imperial Leather Cuirass
Item Type
Cuirass - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
The stiff minotaur-leather of this cuirass has been scuffed, burned, clawed, and sliced, yet it has stood the test of time and tempest.
The underlying crimson tunic makes clear its original owner's loyalties, but offers no hint as to how they met their end.
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Imperial Leather Gauntlets
Item Type
Gauntlets - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
Carefully woven threads bind these scarred leather bracers to your forearms. Lacking a maker's mark or Legion iconography, it is impossible to know who last bore them.
Similarly unmarked gauntlets are often used by the treacherous highwaymen and mercenaries who plague Cyrodiil's backroads.
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Imperial Leather Boots
Item Type
Boots - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
These smooth-grained horsehide boots are crafted in the Colovian style, but have been customized for tighter fastening than those made in Cyrodiil.
The tight fit keeps out the perpetual ash of Vvardenfell - one of many adaptations hard-learned by Vvardenfell's Legionnaires.
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Imperial Leather Pauldrons
Item Type
Pauldrons - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
Stiff leather pauldrons embossed with the diamond of Akatosh and laced with flaxen thread. Their oblique profile seems inspired by the shoulder pads worn in Orcish vosh ball, a sport from which only the most cunning and courageous humans can emerge unscathed.
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Imperial Leather Greaves
Item Type
Greaves - Light Armor
Not Enchanted
Description
These weathered cloth slacks offer little in the way of defense, but their rough fibers betray a hardiness rarely found in civilian clothing.
When one spends endless months trudging through the swamps, dunes, and ash fields of hostile lands, the natural elements are of more frequent concern than blades.
Christopher Korkos
