When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Cassandra Pentaghast - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_Pentaghast

    BioWare wanted the Seeker armor to be "instantly recognisable" or "iconic". The Seeker symbol, emblazoned on the armor, is an altered version of the Chantry symbol (a sun) with an eye in the middle, representative of the Chantry "seeking the truth". [4] Her armor lets her cast a "strong and graphic" silhouette, again illustrating her "hard ...

  3. Armour - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour

    Western Xia mail armour. Armour (Commonwealth English) or armor (American English; see spelling differences) is a covering used to protect an object, individual, or vehicle from physical injury or damage, especially direct contact weapons or projectiles during combat, or from a potentially dangerous environment or activity (e.g. cycling, construction sites, etc.).

  4. Gender representation in video games - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_representation_in...

    Sexualization of female characters is a concern of gamers of all sexes. Players, including male and female players, do not always prefer or appreciate a sexualised design for female characters. In a 2020 survey of 2,006 gamers by Bryter, 62% of female games and 50% of male gamers felt that female characters are often oversexualised in games. [165]

  5. Body armor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_armor

    Iron armor could be carburized or case hardened to give a surface of harder steel. [9] Plate armor became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required much less labor and labor had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms. Mail continued to be used to protect those ...

  6. List of medieval armour components - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_armour...

    Late medieval gothic plate armour with list of elements. The slot in the helmet is called an occularium. This list identifies various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world, mostly plate but some mail armour, arranged by the part of body that is protected and roughly by date.

  7. Sgian-dubh - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgian-dubh

    The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic sgian-dubh, from sgian ('knife') and dubh ('black', also with the secondary meaning of 'hidden'. [2]). Although sgian is feminine, so that a modern Gael might refer to a black knife as sgian dhubh, the term for the ceremonial knife is a set-phrase containing a historical form with blocked lenition.

  8. Sophitia Alexandra - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophitia_Alexandra

    Sophitia Alexandra (Japanese: ソフィーティア・アレクサンドル, Hepburn: Sofītia Arekusandoru) is a character in the Soulcalibur series of video games. Created by Namco's Project Soul division by designers Aya Takemura and Takuji Kawano, she first appeared in Soul Edge and its subsequent sequels, later appearing in various merchandise related to the series.

  9. Chinese armour - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_armour

    The Previous Emperor presented your vassal with armor (kai), to wit, a suit of "black-brilliant" (heiguang) and one of "bright-brilliant" (mingguang) and a suit of "double-faced" (liangtang) armor, but now that the present age is peaceful and the weapons and armor (bingge) are not of use, I request leave to turn them all over to the Armor Board ...