Strife:Lantern Shields

As pictured, Lantern Shields are a physical melee weapon with a gauntlet attached to a shield and blade. In this campaign, they take up the gauntlet and on-hand slot together, and or the other gauntlet and off-hand slot together. These were said to be invented by the Dwemer, under the names: “Nuchan-Vvardens” (the radiance strong shields) for long-bladed versions or “Chun Abakch’s Ahvardn” (executioner’s protection) for short-bladed versions. The long-bladed versions were named to be radiant as the gash they caused looked so deep ‘the blood looked like light pouring out’. They were also enchanted with light spells for utility when the Dwemer explored unknown, possibly infested caves using front line, heavy knights. Short-Bladed versions were more used by dextrous fighters that needed extra protection, and not enchanted. This radiant theme was taken and replicated in steel by other races, with scholars finding out the Dwemer use for them and their name. The name was bastardised to eventually become Short and Long bladed Lantern Shields; and the name Executioner’s protection generally lost to time.

How to equip, get experience, use, and find
Lantern Shields are used in the left and right Gauntlet Slot, with the extra AR they give added onto the left or right gauntlet’s AR, depending on the characters off-hand or on-hand (hand they attack with).

Lantern Shields give experience for their respective armour type and block when being hit, or short blade/long blade when attacking.

Lantern Shields are one-handed, and you cannot equip gauntlets, weapons, or shields while using them. Lantern Shields on the on-hand can attack using Slash, Chop or Thrust (On-hand damage) and increase the Gauntlet’s AR by a set rate (Extra On-Hand AR). Off-hand cannot attack but add more AR (Extra Off-Hand AR) to the Gauntlet’s AR and add damage (Off-Hand damage) onto all successful hits with any weapon in the on-hand. Off-Hand Lantern Shields are usable with hand-to-hand but cannot alternate punching hands; cannot punch while wearing a lantern shield on the punching hand.

Off-hand lantern shields are enchantable and apply the effect on the on-hand lantern shield hitting if it’s a cast when strikes enchantment.

Lantern Shields that are made from:
 * Iron, Steel and Silver are bought from any Armourer, with a replenishing stock of 1. They can also be found but are common.
 * Dwarven materials are found in any Dwemer ruin from the GM’s discretion; if it is not too overpowered for players to have it at that stage. They are uncommon.
 * Glass, Ebony and Daedric are found by the GM’s discretion, but generally in Daedric ruins. if it is not too overpowered for players to have it at that stage. These are rarest.

Dual wielded lantern shields do not get the dual wielding buff, as they do not count as dual wielding. Lantern Shield’s naming structure is the below bold names combined with left or right, and “Bladed Lantern Shield”, for example: a right-hand Iron Frame Short is a Right Iron Frame Short Bladed Lantern Shield.

Long Bladed Lantern Shields
Long-bladed Lantern Shields roll using Long Blade. These do more damage and grant more protection, but do not have the agility of Short bladed Lantern Shields. These have the same mechanics and special attacks as all Long Blades. These are too heavy to be dual wielded unless you have a strength level over [80 – 10×(Character Weight)]. Note that a negative strength effect MAY cause your character to be disarmed of one gauntlet (player choice) when dual-wielding. Duel-wielded Long-bladed Lantern Shields cause the Off-Hand physical damage to be doubled.

Iron Frame Long: Light Gauntlet and Shield | Long Blade | 18CC | 90G
 * Gauntlet AR: 10 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 10 | Extra On-Hand AR: 5
 * On-Hand damage: 5-11 Chop, 2-12 Slash, 8-8 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-4 Slash

Steel Full Long: | Heavy Gauntlet and Shield, Long Blade | 36CC | 200G
 * Gauntlet AR: 15 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 12 | Extra On-Hand AR: 6
 * On-Hand damage: 5-12 Chop, 3-13 Slash, 9-9 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-6 Slash

Silver Long: | Medium Gauntlet and Shield, Long Blade | 28.8CC | 400G
 * Gauntlet AR: 15 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 12 | Extra On-Hand AR: 6
 * On-Hand damage: 4-13 Chop, 7-10 Slash, 1-17 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-7 Slash

Dwarven Frame Long: | Light Gauntlet and Shield, Long Blade | 18CC | 1,200G
 * Gauntlet AR: 15 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 16 | Extra On-Hand AR: 8
 * On-Hand damage: 7-16 Chop, 3-20 Slash, 1-22 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-8 Slash

Dwarven Long: | Medium Gauntlet and Shield, Long Blade | 30CC | 1,800G
 * Gauntlet AR: 17 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 20 | Extra On-Hand AR: 10
 * On-Hand damage: 7-16 Chop, 3-20 Slash, 1-22 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-8 Slash

Dwarven Full Long: | Heavy Gauntlet and Shield, Long Blade | 40CC | 3,000G
 * Gauntlet AR: 20 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 24 | Extra On-Hand AR: 12
 * On-Hand damage: 7-16 Chop, 3-20 Slash, 1-22 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-8 Slash

Glass Long: | Light Gauntlet and Shield, Long Blade | 20CC | 18,000G
 * Gauntlet AR: 20 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 30 | Extra On-Hand AR: 15
 * On-Hand damage: 4-24 Chop, 1-27 Slash, 8-20 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-9 Slash

Ebony Frame Long: | Medium Gauntlet and Shield, Long Blade | 64CC | 30,000G
 * Gauntlet AR: 30 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 34 | Extra On-Hand AR: 17
 * On-Hand damage: 8-22 Chop, 6-24 Slash | 12-18 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-11 Slash

Daedric Long: | Heavy Gauntlet and Shield, Long Blade | 100CC | 60,000G
 * Gauntlet AR: 40 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 40 | Extra On-Hand AR: 20
 * On-Hand damage: 10-25 Chop, 5-30 Slash, 1-35 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-12 Slash

Short Bladed Lantern Shields
Short-bladed Lantern Shields roll using Short Blade. These otherwise do less damage and offer less protection than Long-bladed Lantern Shields but are more agile. They use Short Blade mechanics and special attacks when attacking, but when on both the left and right hands they use Dagger mechanics too if your agility level is over 30×(Character Weight). Note that a negative agility effect MAY lose the dagger mechanics. If this happens, damage towards execute resets to zero.

Iron Frame Short: | Light Gauntlet and Shield, Short Blade | 12CC | 76G
 * Gauntlet AR: 10 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 6 | Extra On-Hand AR: 3
 * On-Hand damage: 4-5 Chop, 4-5 Slash, 4-4 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-2 Slash

Steel Full Short: | Heavy Gauntlet and Shield, Short Blade | 24CC | 152G
 * Gauntlet AR: 15 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 8 | Extra On-Hand AR: 4
 * On-Hand damage: 4-5 Chop, 4-5 Slash, 5-5 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-3 Slash

Silver Short: | Medium Gauntlet and Shield, Short Blade | 19.2CC | 250G
 * Gauntlet AR: 15 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 8 | Extra On-Hand AR: 4
 * On-Hand damage: 5-5 Chop, 5-5 Slash, 4-6 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-5 Slash

Dwarven Frame Short: | Light Gauntlet and Shield, Short Blade | 12CC | 600G
 * Gauntlet AR: 15 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 12 | Extra On-Hand AR: 6
 * On-Hand damage: 6-10 Chop, 7-9 Slash, 1-14 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-6 Slash

Dwarven Short: | Medium Gauntlet and Shield, Short Blade | 20CC | 1,000G
 * Gauntlet AR: 17 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 14 | Extra On-Hand AR: 7
 * On-Hand damage: 6-10 Chop, 7-9 Slash, 1-14 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-6 Slash

Dwarven Full Short: | Heavy Gauntlet and Shield, Short Blade | 36CC | 2,000G
 * Gauntlet AR: 20 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 18 | Extra On-Hand AR: 9
 * On-Hand damage: 6-10 Chop, 7-9 Slash, 1-14 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-6 Slash

Glass Short: | Light Gauntlet and Shield, Short Blade | 14.4CC | 15,000G
 * Gauntlet AR: 20 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 20 | Extra On-Hand AR: 10
 * On-Hand damage: 6-11 Chop, 1-17 Slash, 8-9 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-7 Slash

Ebony Frame Short: | Medium Gauntlet and Shield, Short Blade | 48CC | 20,000G
 * Gauntlet AR: 30 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 24 | Extra On-Hand AR: 12
 * On-Hand damage: 6-13 Chop, 1-19 Slash, 8-11 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-8 Slash

Daedric Short: | Heavy Gauntlet and Shield, Short Blade | 72CC | 40,000G
 * Gauntlet AR: 40 | Extra Off-Hand AR: 30 | Extra On-Hand AR: 15
 * On-Hand damage: 8-13 Chop, 1-20 Slash, 10-11 Thrust | Off-Hand damage: 1-10 Slash