Shardplate Proportions
On my first reading I was under the impression that Shardplate was like Space Marine power armour, 8ft (250cm) of stabby stompy. How the heck did Kaladin get Helaran then? On further reading and wiki perusing I found that it was smaller than I originally thought. Since Shardbearers wear their clothes under their Plate and require special megahorses, I felt that they still needed to be heroically oversized compared to a normal Alethi.
Some thoughts I had while sketching this:
- Shardplate weighs ~250kg. You can still walk around with half busted Plate but you will feel the weight of a 15kg gauntlet when your elbow section shatters. Shardbearer training probably involves lots of squatz.
- Helmets differ the most between suits of Plate and add several inches to your height. There must be empty space inside if you can get hit in the face several times and not die. Also Adolin's helm has little cat ears.
- The Havah is a dress with a strip on the bottom that touches the ground and eventually gets dirty, but is meant to be replaced. I drew it as a separate petticoat underneath. You can't sew, cut seams, and resew on good silk because it ends up leaving little fraying pinholes on the fabric.
- Adolin is shorter than Kaladin outside of Plate, since Kaladin is repeatedly described as being taller than everyone he meets except Rock. But whatever their height happens to be, Shallan is still a perfect little spoon size for either.
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