Doomed Gauntlets

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Type Armour
Discovered By Leon Drakynor
Discovery Date July 4, 2010
Discovery Location Outer Tilog, Colonies
Abilities Prestige +2
Current Owner in peasant hands


First Appearances

Account of a scrawny, ragged peasant as retold by Noble, Ernst Iitherwyll:

"'Artifact?'" Lord Ernst scoffed, "That ragged adventurer carried naught but the scraps of remains of some poor battleground soul - 'doomed gauntlets' indeed. I knew from the first glance that boy was a lia-...At the hands of Lady Yukiko, you say? I thought that I had caught word of that at some point a long while ago...I suppose that this news changes quite a bit; I never thought that I would hear of one who would substantiate the ostensibly insane words of some peasant adventurer. Perhaps I have been too hard on the boy and passed a wonderful bargain for myself. Please, stay for a moment and I will recount all that the word he brought to me of the item."

"He said that he came upon the gauntlets as if by serendipity - hours of travel from miles and miles away (I just assumed he had been bluffing to make everything seem more impressive, especially after I saw the things); Stumbling from a brief rest behind a clutch of old inns in the heart of the capital's slums he said he was but in the midst of driving his fists into the sleep still lingering in his eyes when he lost his balance over the crude wreckage of a wooden wheelbarrow handle and plunged through the decrepit remains of a fence. He claimed he thought he was under attack...but in truth - who would attack that man? The vagabond strapped to a slab of iron like it was some fantastic sword; Adorned with a gaudy (and probably fake) signet ring around his neck he looked about as wealthy as a beggar!"

"...But whatever the case may have been - (I still can't believe that he might have been telling the truth!) - the beggar told me that he began to swing his fists, and drove his 'sword' into the pile of boards...but his weapon sunk into the dirt below effortlessly and he said he heard a dull 'clink' of metal striking metal. And that's where he found them - sweeping aside the fence-boards, he found his blade dug straight down into the earth, and digging down to where the tip of the blade must have stuck, wrapped in what was once white cloth, were two blood-bathed gauntlets like dragon's molars, and some tattered parchment."

"I have to say, sir, I still find this all so very hard to believe - the boy looked so shabby; I was but completely sure that he had been trying to pull the wool over my eyes...Yet you continue to insist that he must have been telling the truth..."

"Well...as the case may be, the boy came scurrying alongside my carriage as I passed through the outskirts of town and I almost drew my sword upon his throat. He showed me those gloves, and told me his story, but as I've told you already, sir, I thought his words no more than lore. To find that they were actually the armwear of that Giblotian captain...the one who nearly escaped...No, I don't know, yet, that I can mercy such fantasy...Well, well...you have all that I know now of this thing; I am sorry, but be off with you - I do not wish to think of it any longer, that those plauge's-men Gibblet may have had some semblance of courage - I do not wish it at all!"