Initiate armor

Draumr Boy · **Posted:** January 1st, 2008, 8:19 pm

Why are initiate armor called sallets, hauberk, cuisse and not full helmet, platebody and legs? And why don't they have a kite?

Adbot · **Posted:** January 1st, 2008, 8:19 pm

Davo · **Posted:** January 2nd, 2008, 2:40 am

Tbh, I think that Gower got a little too overconfident with his ability to write "RuneScript" and thought he could try to rename armor articles, but sadly its failing miserably.

No jk, actually im not sure. I havent done the quest myself, but is there some sort of reference in the quest as to why they are called this. I never noticed this before though. When i first saw your post i was about to say get off the German servers!

This is interesting. Im gonna have to do a little research on this.

Ranging God · **Posted:** January 2nd, 2008, 8:52 am

Yeah i always wondered that. I think a kite would look cool too =\

Ryan · **Posted:** January 2nd, 2008, 10:41 am

I thought it was people don't get mixed up with white armour, but I'm probably wrong

Humus · **Posted:** January 2nd, 2008, 3:24 pm

I think it's because all the knights are posh and "sallet" and "hauberk" sound alot more posh than helm, body, legs etc.

Christopher · **Posted:** January 2nd, 2008, 5:17 pm

Draumr Boy wrote:

Why are initiate armor called sallets, hauberk, cuisse and not full helmet, platebody and legs? And why don't they have a kite?

sal·let /ˈsælɪt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[sal-it] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Armor.
a light medieval helmet, usually with a vision slit or a movable visor.
Also, salade.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME, var. of salade < MF < Sp celada (or It celata) < L caelāta (cassis) engraved (helmet), fem. of caelātus (ptp. of caelāre to engrave); see -ate1]
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hau·berk /ˈhɔbɜrk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[haw-burk] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Armor.
a long defensive shirt, usually of mail, extending to the knees; byrnie.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < OF hauberc, earlier halberc < Frankish *halsberg, equiv. to *hals neck (see hawse) + *berg protection (see harbor); c. OHG halsberc OE healsbeorg, ON halsbjǫrg]
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cuisse /kwɪs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kwis] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Armor.
a piece of armor or padding for protecting the thigh.
Also, cuish /kwɪʃ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kwish] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation.

[Origin: 1275–1325; earlier also cush, pl. cushies (the pl. cush(i)e-s misanalyzed as cush-(i)es), ME quissheu, kusheu, pl. quyssewes, cusschewis < OF quisseuz, cuisseus, pl. of cuissel, equiv. to cuisse thigh (< L coxa hipbone) + -el n. suffix]
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That was ten seconds at dictionary.com...come on guys lets not get lazy.

Probably he did it just to introduce a few new words into the game. Not surprisingly, these are all real medieval word for parts of a set of armor.

Adbot · **Posted:** January 2nd, 2008, 5:17 pm

merlin6and17 · **Posted:** January 2nd, 2008, 5:20 pm

They are all taken from the literal (dictionary) meanings of the armor itself. Investigation led to French, German, etc original definitions of the words. Why the game authors chose those exact words??? You would have to ask the folks at JAGEX.

AndyMaster24 · **Posted:** January 2nd, 2008, 6:21 pm

I would say, mainly because it isn't normal armor. Comes with a snazzy prayer bonous, and it is cheap, good questing armor.

Bellicosity · Runite~Mon Jul 07, 2007 3:04 pm.

proselyte trumps initiate any day though. better prayer bonus on the body and helm, and defense stats are same as adamant (iniate = mithril). but ideally, if you're not a pure and are looking for non barrows prayer armour, you should look to the helm of neitiznot instead of a proselyte or initiate sallet.

mongoose939 · **Posted:** January 3rd, 2008, 1:00 pm

It cuz in rs classic it was called the origanal stuff and poeple sold for 300k+ cuz they say it was "wite (g)"

Draumr Boy · **Posted:** January 3rd, 2008, 8:29 pm

mongoose939 wrote:

It cuz in rs classic it was called the origanal stuff and poeple sold for 300k+ cuz they say it was "wite (g)"

White (g) eh? Interesting.

Al3X · **Posted:** January 4th, 2008, 12:01 am

AndyMaster24 wrote:

I would say, mainly because it isn't normal armor. Comes with a snazzy prayer bonus

that seems like a likely reason.

it could be because its a unique type of armor, its not really like any of the other armors from what ive gathered. it may be made in a different way.

Steven · **Posted:** January 4th, 2008, 5:55 am

Well that's all the peices to the armour set, be creative with the sheild.

Dokter Bob · **Posted:** January 4th, 2008, 6:21 am

It sounds fancier.