From: Les gropabos sont en lecture seule actuellement <gropabo@caramail.com>
Subject: RE: (glencook-fans) What's a morrion anyway?
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Well morions were the typical european infantry helmets of the 16░ century. Their <BR>curved shape were supposed to deflect rather than stop missiles.<BR><BR>A face guard with a similar shape would have made its user blind, so it would have <BR>required to make something simple, that would have been useless when hit by a gun <BR>shot. Plus these helmets were supposed to be cheap. Footmen at this time wore nothing <BR>but their morion and a body piece of armor. Their legs, arms, front neck and face were <BR>unarmored.<BR><BR>Soulcatcher is not concerned with the price of armor pieces. In addition to that the <BR>inexistence of guns made face guards more effective (and BC soldiers had some, at least <BR>in the the first book) especially as it was supposed to be a mask rather than a protection.<BR><BR>Notice you can see, in the background of the french cover of first book (as showed in <BR>Eric Hermann's answer) a representation of a soldier wearing a morion with face guard. <BR
>The french translator, who generally made a great job, had changed the meaning of a <BR>sentence so that french readers thought most BC soldiers wore such morions, which may <BR>have influenced the illustrator.<BR><BR>GPB<P><P>______________________________________________________<BR>Boεte aux lettres - Caramail - <A HREF=http://www.caramail.com>http://www.caramail.com</A><P>