Scale armor

Scale armor was a type of armor used on Toril.

Description
Plate mail consisted of a leather coat, leggings and sometimes skirt which was covered in small plates of overlapping scales. The finished armor would often resemble the scales of a fish. Although steel was commonly used to make scale mail, actual animal scales (like dragon scales) could be used. Although heavy, the flexibility and adjust-ability of scale mail armor made it surprisingly easy to wear.

Variations

 * Coin Armor: A rare form of scale armor made with over a thousand coins. They were typically seen in use by high-ranking generals and dignitaries.


 * Sea elven scale mail: An expensive form of scale armor that was unique to the sea elves.

Religions

 * Painteachers, a variety of specialty priest of the Church of Loviatar, generally wore scale mail in emulation of their goddess.
 * Scalemail was the only type of armor that worshipers of Sseth were known to wear. These were fashioned to resemble the scales of snakes and tinted in a pattern common to one of Faerun's many serpent species.

Appearances

 * Video games
 * Eye of the Beholder series (Eye of the Beholder • The Legend of Darkmoon • Assault on Myth Drannor)