(03-30-2015, 09:14 AM)OverlordOutpost Wrote: Actually, I'm a bit curious of those myself, Papa and Louis' metallic armors are very oddly colored. Â I'm theorizing that they possibly be made of special metal materials such as rose-gold, darksteel, or platinum.
There's actually lore on this - not specifically on Louisoix's sabatons (which are white, not sure what's an odd color about that?) - but on metals which conduct aether. This comes up a lot in the ALC and GSM storylines. There are very specific "weak" metals which conduct, amplify, or hinder aetheric energies.
These metals specifically are: Silver, Gold, Platinum, Electrum, and Rose-gold. These metals are noted as being too soft to make sturdy armor out of, but are effective for conducting aether, which is why you'll see circlets made from these metals, as well as grimoire ink, and sceptors. Also according to the GSM storyline, bones also make for decent, albeit arcane, aether conductors.
To go along with this, the BSM and ARM quests never have you working with any of these metals. Bronze, Iron, Steel, Mythril, Cobalt, Darksteel, and Wootz are thicker, stronger metals which make armor, ship parts, bridges, buildings, and all other manner of metalworks handled by Naldiq & Vymeli's. These metals have no aetherial properties.
Now, practical thinking could be applied here saying - well, what if I had a mythril set of armor and I coated it with gold leaf? Would that work? Lore says yes.
Quote:Gilded Magitek Armor
It only took a few heated skirmishes with the allied city-states for Garlemald to realize that the magicks wielded by the realm's mages were too much for even the thickest magitek armor plating. Alloyed gilding has since been discovered to dampen the effects of elemental charges and is now standard issue.
