Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Thieves Guild

Vaerth · April 2015

Fighters Guild style should be heavy
Thieves Guild style should be medium
Mages Guild style armor should be light

Not one armor type per guild. Dark Brotherhood should have all 3 though

AngryNord · April 2015

Assassins and heavy armour don't quite mix... DB would be more fitting with a mix of light and medium, Altaïr-style

Vaerth · April 2015

AngryNord wrote: »

Assassins in heavy armour don't quite miss... DB would be more fitting with a mix of light and medium, Altaïr-style

Well said

UrQuan · April 2015

AngryNord wrote: »

Assassins and heavy armour don't quite mix... DB would be more fitting with a mix of light and medium, Altaïr-style

Actually, assassins and all armour styles mix, because an assassin needs to get close to his target, which (depending on the target) may mean pretending to be anything. You're supposed to kill that Lionguard commander? Wear heavy armour, pretend to be a member of the Lionguard and slip some poison into his wine.

Of course, if we're talking about a DB-specific armour style, then yeah, heavy doesn't make much sense. But frankly, in a lot of ways having a DB-specific armour style doesn't make that much sense in any case. Assassins shouldn't wear anything that identifies them as such.

Aett_Thorn · April 2015

Vaerth wrote: »

Fighters Guild style should be heavy
Thieves Guild style should be medium
Mages Guild style armor should be light

Not one armor type per guild. Dark Brotherhood should have all 3 though

Fighter's guild would likely take anyone who can fight and is willing to fight daedra. From the nimble light-armor wearing fencer to the medium-armor wearing skirmisher to the heavily-armored knight.

While most mages in this game wear light armor, the mage's guild includes anyone with an interest in gaining knowledge. And given the dangers in many delves across Tamriel, they would probably have some medium- and heavy-armor wearing members that were more specialists in gaining this knowledge versus true scholars.

While most thieves would wear medium armor, why couldn't they wear clothing or heavy armor to fulfill certain roles? Protector and guardian of sacred thieves' guild locations? Guard to the Night Mother? Both of those would probably be in heavy armor. Meanwhile, a thief specializing in taking items from mages and scholars would probably wear light armor to blend in more.