Editing Announcements - 2010/06 - Shifting Gears (section)

== Gear Knights ==
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<center><span style="font-size: x-large"><font color=#FFFF00>Gear Knights</font></span></center>
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With the introduction of Gear Knights as the next playable race, we thought it would be good to give everyone more insight into how they will interact with the world.
<br><br>Gear Knights do not wear traditional armor. Instead, they can take the pieces of armor they find and transform those pieces into Core Plating to strengthen their forms. To do this, Gear Knights use a device called the Core Plating Integrator to transform their findings into a piece of plating that covers the same locations as an armor piece. The Core Plating Integrator uses Aether magic to create the Plating, which can then be installed onto the Gear Knight in the same manner as a human might wear more conventional armor.
<br><br>Another important aspect of the new playable race is their weapon forte, for Gear Knights come from a battalion trained in the use of Mace. Therefore, Mace is a racial skill for PC Gear Knights.
<br><br>The Primus did not want to leave his Gear Knights in a position where they could not trade with other denizens of Dereth. His aim is to encourage Gear Knights to interact with, and learn from, other races of Dereth. Having them unable to traffic the Core Plating pieces might lead to the Gear Knights shying away from trade. To remedy this, the Primus also created a Core Plating Deintegrator. This small device uses Aether magic to reverse the process of core plating integration, effectively reconstructing the armor piece back to its original form. This allows the Gear Knights to barter their wears with other races of Dereth.
<br>So there is a breif look at the inner workings of Gear Knights. We hope you all enjoy playing them as much as we enjoyed making them the newst playable race in Asheron's Call!
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