For honor sword armor samurai. Was i wrong about medieval leather armor. Now with metal scarce in the swamps the samurai use the resources they have more plentiful of combining wood and lacquered leather for their armor. Debunking game theory on viking vs. Japanese samurai swords in period european eyes duration.
The creation of a great samurai blade is a long and complex process where the art and experience of the crafter is key. The classic question knight versus samurai who would win in a fight. Are you worthy of the samurai armor edit. Now a millennium later the nomadic warriors have ceased their wandering and have rebuilt themselves a new nation under a mighty emperor.
It is good to note thought that in the universe of for honor metal is scarce for the samurai who reside in the myre therefore wood had become a substitute. A samurais code of honor was the code of bushido. For there is no honor in defeat. Going further here we also have for honor weapons list that belongs to the samurai.
Samurai also used swords but they used bows and arrows. They also used helmets. On the other side samurai wore armor made out of leather or steel laced together with silk cords. Masters of multiple martial arts they are trained from infancy to fight and die for their emperor or their fellow samurai without asking why.
Originally from a land far far to the east they tell a tale of a homeland and an emperor that were lost to sea and fire during the last great cataclysm. Manji a highly skilled samurai becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. However they will be greatly improved.
Their armor was originally made from the finest steel laced together by lacquered sets of leather. Knights wore armor made from metal links and they used swords and shields in battles. All accounts of japanese wood armor predated the samurai as by the time of the samurai they were using lamellar and plate armor. Kensei are the living incarnations of bushido the samurai way of the warrior or as close as one can get.