The original artwork for this comic is available for purchase.
Notes: White-out correction in panel 2, pasted-in correction in panel 4.
The original artwork for this comic is available for purchase.
Notes: White-out correction in panel 2, pasted-in correction in panel 4.
I bet Llewellyn will either be screaming like a girl or trying to eat her when he sees the armor.
I bet Llewellyn will either be screaming like a little girl or trying to eat her when he sees the armor.
Fortuna favet paraverunt!
You know you’ve made yourself vulnerable when Ozy is considering a prank on you.
Just hope Isolde isn’t one of the dragon relations who would think of St George, and that she might as well be wearing a nutrition label
Falling over in those suits must really have been a problem.
It was, but not for the reason you are thinking of. Outside battle, it was seldom a problem for a knight who fell over in armour to get back up- both because the weight of the armour was spread over their entire body, and because it wasn’t THAT heavy- it weighed between 15-25 kilos, so about the same as your baggage allowance when you fly with most airlines. However, armour does restrict your movements- especially if you don’t have a custom-made set, which most knights had.
However, the reason why it was a problem in battle is that a knight that had fallen over was pretty much defenseless- which was usually exploited by whoever had managed to make them fall to either force a surrender, or to kill said knight. (they preferred to get the knight to surrender since they could demand a ransom- which could get pretty large (the ransom for Richard the Lionheart was something like 2-3 times England’s income at the time- and there was never any suggestion that it was excessively large.