I'm really impressed by this. I'm surprised it isn't teeming with interest already. One thing that I'm uncertain of (although, I may just have missed it in my excitement) is this: how does magic work in this setting? You mentioned it and that characters can have minor magical properties in their armor and weapons, but I don't have a clear idea of how to approach it in this setting, since it seems to draw from history and folklore and fiction all at once.