[quote=Alphakoka]
She's broke so it's likely that she has no money to buy them or idea how to get them.PS: Tell me if I'm wrong, but, didn't the knights also wear another set of mail under their platemail?
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'The knights'

Uh, little more specific here? I think Templars wore some sort of complementary under armour.

Plus, almost every soldier who wore chain mail also wore padding underneath, which saved -a lot- of people from arrows.