Sapphire Lebesque's Blog: Margin Notes - Posts Tagged "fantasy-romance"

Announcing my new fantasy romance series, in which fair maidens and their chivalrous knights inhabit a world where true love & honour wins. Some heroes are princes and some heroines princesses.
This romantic fantasy series is set in an imaginary medieval world where maidens are feisty and brave, and warriors are handsome, noble knights who will sacrifice everything for the queens of their hearts.

Introducing Book 1, Princess Rio, committed to an arranged marriage to Crown Prince Geoff, a man she's seen but hardly knows, for the sake of her father's military alliance. Books 2,3 and 4 each tell the story of Rio's sisters.

Like all my stories (with a few exceptions), they are exclusively on Amazon.

Chain mail was made by linking each ring through four others, either riveted, welded or butted together. Riveted rings were most secure as being most resistant to impact.

But there was a cost. Warriors had to lumber round and fight with an extra 10 or so kilos, plus a shield and sword, the combined weight was burdensome. One advantage of chain mail was flexibility and mobility over and above rigid plate armour, which also carried a weight cost, a necessary price to pay for added security on the battlefield.

It was also expensive in terms of labour, taking a skilled armourer many months to make and also in materials, quality steel or bronze being the most expensive.

Today, battle armour for a knight might cost thousands of pounds, euros or dollars, and only wealthier lords and knights could afford quality, and it carried a status. Sometimes rulers would foot the bill for chainmail for their elite warrior knights.