Artifact •••

Access Purview: Me

Access Purview: Health

Unique Power: Plus one lethal, plus two bashing soak.

Soak: 5L, 4B

Carved with images retelling the creation of humanity (at least, as believed by those who worship the Annunaki), the Armor of Humanity is a lightweight metal breastplate forged specifically to provide protection for those children of the goddess Aruru who work as healers in war-torn times.

One such individual was the knight errant, Edmund Anselm, who traveled with the Crusade of Richard the Lionheart. Edmund was known as “The Healer Knight” and the Armor of Humanity was key to the development of the title. While wearing the Armor, Edmund was able to preform healing miracles and protect the well-being of children still in the womb. More than once, after Edmund’s visit, a village would find that every child born for the next nine months was hale and healthy, with no children lost in childbirth or early childhood. Edmund worked to help both sides of the Crusades, more interested in helping the poor, weak, and sick than with the ideals of the Holy Land. While Edmund had been known to fight for those he felt were innocent, he had removed himself from the struggle between Christian and Muslim; after all, he knew for a certainty that gods existed and that his mother, one of their number, had charged him to shepherd all of humanity.

Edmund himself disappeared after a long life and so too vanished the Armor of Humanity. Perhaps the goddess reclaimed it, or perhaps, somewhere deep in the Holy Land, the armor of the Healing Knight waits for a new bearer.