ITEMS & ABILITIES

"This stuff"? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your armory and you select, I don't know, that... lumpy plate armor, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that plate armor is not just plate, it's not iron, it's not steel. It's actually adamantine. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 202, Jorrvaskr Drenta did a collection of adamantine shields. And then I think it was Saint Lawrence, wasn't it, who showed adamantine chain mail? I think we need chain mail here. And then adamantine quickly showed up in the collections of eight different court armorers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the markets, and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some estate sale. However, that metal represents millions of gold and countless jobs, and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the armor and fashion design world when, in fact, you're wearing the armor that was selected for you by the people in this room, from a pile of "stuff".

— Balenne Siaga of the Free City of New Traeventahl