Arcanum: DREAD ARMOR, stats, location

Dread Armor Arcanum

Dread Armor is an Arcanum armor in Troika's cRPG of 2001, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Dread Armor is notable for its epic durability and armor class; it is also good armor for Arcanum companions such as Virgil.

Player characters will be referred to as Barbarians or Berserkers when clad in Dread Armor.

Dread Armor armor only comes in normal size, not small or large.

Dream Armor Stats

Dread Armor stats are as follows:

• Dread Armor AC: 19 (+31) (MA 100: +50 AC)
• Dread Armor Damage Resistance: +5
• Dread Armor Fire Resistance: +5
• Dread Armor Noise Penalty: -20
• Dread Armor Durability: 10,000
• Dread Armor Weight: 100 stone

Dread Armor Location

Dread Armor spawns with an 80% chance at smith quality, 80% at smith magical, 80% at magic light, 80% at magic dark and 70% at smith rural, such as Lloyd Gurloes in Shrouded Hills.

Dread Armor Origins

What do we know of this Dread Armor? Historians from around the world have been researching this enigmatic phenomenon for years. Logic would dictate that an intelligent man begin at the most distinctive feature?he emblem. All Dread Armor bears the symbol of an eagle with a snake? head. Extensive iconographical research has divulged little in the way of enlightenment concerning this talisman. Various cultures and subcultures over the millennia have taken both the eagle and the snake as their representative symbols, but none in recorded history have taken them together. Various rumors among circles less interested in science and more with the childishly fantastic have attributed this symbol to what is most often called the Derian-Ka, or ancient Order of the Dead. Such claims are little more than wild speculation, as such a group has never been proven to exist, much less to forge their own armors.

Various experiments upon the metal itself have shown that it has enhanced magickal properties. Experts in the field attribute the flows to Dark Necromancy, as well as minute traces of the Force and Elemental Colleges. The exact age of the armor is unknown, but modern techniques have placed it near the Age of Legends. Dread Armor has been found in almost every part of Arcanum, from the upper reaches of the Stonewall Mountains to the Dark Fens. The honorable Quentin Payne, renowned explorer from the century last, purportedly found a full set of Dread Armor on one of his forays into the Vendigroth Wastes.

Perhaps in the future, history will be so kind as to shed some light on this most peculiar mystery. Until that time, we can only guess at the reasons behind the mystery of Dread Armor.

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