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Yemon Bronzeplate was widely recognized as the greatest military enchanter in the Rocchairian Nation - until Alanis Goldkeeper started to gain fame.  Yemon has become intensely jealous and seeks to regain his former position of glory by outdoing Alanis.

Yemon’s is a skilled enchanter and crafts useful items, but his designs lack the dramatic flair that “Golden Boy” shows.  It is this flair, or Yemon’s lack, that has allowed Alanis to surpass Yemon.

With the major issue of dwarves, especially heavily armored dwarves, getting into battle quickly without being whittled down by elven arrows, Yemon has been working on designs that would allow for speed and defense.  It is important to note that we are talking about speed here, not maneuverability.  Many of Yemon’s attempts recently have relied on wheels located on the armor, turning the soldier himself into some sort of odd vehicle.

Yemon has finally abandoned his wheeled models and developed what he calls Hawk Attack Armor.  This is a splinted armor enchanted with flight (object flight on the boots).  The helm is magically enhanced with “hawk vision”.  This is a new spell that Yemon has invented (based on a very old spell the dwarves had all but forgotten).  Hawk vision gives the wearer enhanced vision - often considered to be three times better than normal, but this may be more advertising than accurate.  Hawk vision does lower the modifiers for missile combat ranges (to 0/-10/-20/-30/-40) and increases the wearer’s base Senses (by +20%).

The suit also sports a perpetual motion device contained within the gauntlet.  This can be paired with either of the two weapons:  the spinning sword or the “pulter”.  The spinning sword causes massive amounts of damage, but does take some amount of strength to be able to use (3T @ SN=7).  Unlike earlier designs, Yemon has crafted the sword to resist being disarmed (resist at an extra 10%).  The “pulter” was intended to both give the wearer a missile weapon and turn him into a catapult.  The launcher device links to the perpetual motion to throw a 4” steel sphere as though it was a light catapult.  (Lt. catapult ranges; 2½B damage; +0 throwing mod.)  Yemon plans to develop different shots for the launcher.

Yemon believes that building flying ships manned by dwarves in this armor would be unstoppable.  The ship would stay safely aloft, while the warriors would fly down firing their shots.  Then upon landing, they would use their swords and possibly shots to eradicate the enemy.  This armor will get some notice, but it is still enormously expensive.  Also, the thought of building more flying ships (which might be then commandeered like the last one) immediately turns off the Clanmasters.

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