Talk:Mordred/@comment-2003:45:4622:51BA:A82F:BFFF:924:1929-20170711182532/@comment-2003:45:4622:5109:49F4:95CA:D2D:8DCA-20170712071721

I hope you were never truly under the impression that any piece of costume in Fate has ever been remotely historical or even practical. ;)

Sure, the ridiculously convoluted helm-removing mechanism aside, Mordred's armor is one of the more sensible pieces. But in the romano-british timeframe in the fifth and early sixth century, plate armor didn't exist at all. The Romans have dabbled with it a few centuries before with the Lorica Segmentata, but it was soon phased out due to high maintenance and because it was a bother to put on in times where Roman troops became a kind of rapid-response-unit.

Therefore an Arthurian knight would be more likely to be equipped with mail, scaled armor or the odd piece of surviving Roman cuirass (which isn't so far fetched, since many of Arthur's knights would have been descendants of Roman legionaries). Mordred's as depicted here armor would be more feasable to be 15th or 16th century. But for my personal headcanon this is perfectly fine, because we see that Heroic Spirits are often warped by the imagination of those who looked up to them. Since Arthurian myths were widespread during the Medieval age and the 15th and 16th century saw the height of knightly chivalry, it can be easily assumed that Mordred, Lancelot and the others were just summoned with what Renaissance people imagined them to wear.