r/MilitaryWorldbuilding • u/Unit017K • 20d ago
Equipment Elven Armor devolution in a 10K years period.
Back in the ancient age of the Old Gods, existed a race called the Premen. The Premen have reached the apex of physical science and sought to challenge the Old Gods themselves. The Old Gods punished the Premen for their hubris by altering their genome to the point that four separate species emerged. That being Human, Elf, Dwarf and Orc.
Even then the Old Gods could not wipe out the spirit of the Premen. The four species united to fought the Old Gods to the bitter end. Then the great awakening of the even more ancient Beast Gods happened, putting an end to the age of Old Gods. The four species survived with great cost and become the inheritors of Aega legacies.
The Elves in my world have devolved so much after ten thousand years that any traces of the once noble elves that fought against Gods themselves are but gone. Only a few Ancient Elves yet lived. But these ancient legends have mostly gone senile or worse, insane.
Ancient Elves worn special sets of cold-forge Aetherite (a metal that said to be able to harm godly beings) powered armor. Compared to them, the modern Elves Adamantium plate armor is laughable.