ReaptheMusic said
Aideth
While I have no problems with female members of society going to war, I have found several gross anachronisms in your CS that I have to adjust as the nitpicky and annoying GM.
"Aideth is a Golden haired beauty who is never seen without armor and weapons at close hand, even amongst nobles. This ensures her to be ready to fight at a moments notice. Her eyes are an ever changing hazel, shifting shades according to her mood and current scenario whilst never drifting far from their basic color. Sturdy, busty, and curvy, she uses all of her body’s attributes to aid her in battle, such as sensually distracting an opponent with her assets or using the element of surprise with just how strong her body truly is. Many are intimidated by her height, being so tall for a woman, but she merely sees it as another asset to intimidate her foes."This is the part that bugs me, along with the pictures if you also intend to use that as her armour. the rest looks nicely done.
1) First of all, ewww, gross animre pictures of
chainmail bikinis. Nope. ;)
2) Secondly, armour is made to protect the body. To do that it has an external layer meant to guide away weapons from the body, or stop them entirely (chainmail, coat-of-plates, plate armour, the outside, what you see). Underneath that is a 'soft' layer of padding meant to catch some or ideally most of the blunt trauma, the pure force a hit to your armour transfers into your body after stopping the weapon itself. (So, a hard hit on your arm while wearing chainmail won't leave you with a partially severed limb, but with a bruised or broken one) As a result, armour tends to be rather bulky and thick-looking because of the equivalent of a modern thick winter coat underneath (except in the case of plate armours, who had no gambesons but doublets underneath that were custom-made for the type of armour usually). As a result, there will not be much 'curvature' to show off with. To give you a great example, here is a link to someone on DeviantArt who draws 'historically accurate' AND practical females in armour.
Gambargin is his name. Additionally, this is about the max amount of curve you will see. (And to be honest, she still has a rather slender waist in this picture)
3) Because of said facts, you cannot use your feminine attributes to distract your enemies in battle, lest you intend to die when someone looks at you because of your lack of practical armour or decent facial protection. I advise you to carry a big shield should you decide to pick the latter, arrows are your new arch-enemy.
4) You would not be able to distract a combatant with 'sensual manouvres' in a battlefield. I do reenactment, and I fight against women aswell as men. When fighting, you don't stare at boobies, you hope you don't get fucked up. Maybe in an isolated case you can attempt this, butyou'd have to be fighting unarmoured as a start to achieve that.
Please take my nagging with a kind heart and don't send dropbears after me. Or female reenactors with spears. Damn I still carry that mark on my knee (see signature), I hope she does too @___@