Ah, on topic of your armour:

I will admit that it's incredibly hard to find what you are looking for; an armour that is practical and worthy of using, aswell as fantasy and to your liking, so I'll just give you some general rules for describing it along with a picture.

Before that: Armour stops the weapon from harming you, but blunt trauma can still kill. Quickly explained: You have a plastic container of jelly. Stab it, slash it, the countainer holds. Hit it really hard with something, the container still holds, but upon opening your container your jelly will be ruptured and in general a soup of sploosh. Now translate jelly to your brains and container to armour.

A) Armour IS bulky (note, where it has to be bulky. Look up 'Maximillian plate armour' or '1460 English plate armour' on google for examples) , because it works. You wear padding underneath to protect you from blunt trauma, and as such form-fitting armour is not good, since it does not allow for proper padding (and will just get you killed evenly fast, only in another way: Instead of dying to grievous cuts you will die to grievous internal bleedings). Additionally, any battle-damage will obviously obstruct you.

B) Armour guides blows away from the body, and as a result it is shaped 'aerodynamically' as I tend to translate it. It's healtheir if you get hit and the sword glances off (aka, not getting a good angle on your armour and as a result transfers hardly any force through the plate and padding into you) you will be much better off than if it hit your squarely. As such, boob-plates who direct blows to your plexus are suicidal. It traps all force of an attack to hurt you.

C) Armour needs to protect you, aka; cover as much as possible. If that isn't possible, cover the most vital parts so you might get wounded in for example your forearm, but it'll take a lot more to outright kill you. As such, using a breastplate that doesn't cover you sides, belly, or collarbone area is just a waste of material if we are looking at it from a practical point of view.

With that in mind you can adequately describe/imagine any kind of fantasy armour that works. Also, yes, the sword is fine now. I'll just let the shield pass as an ornate buckler or something :P

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