How to justify heavy armor in a arabian nights setting?

How to justify heavy armor in a arabian nights setting?

You don't

Same way you justify it in Europe, things want to stab and maim you, you want to feel like a big secure baby. Boom

Blunt force trama.

They would have worn it if they could have made it. Getting stabbed is a lot more lethal and a lot more likely than getting heat stroke.

Especially because anyone who could afford plate armor is gonna have a horse to ride on and people to carry his shit.

Because historically Arabs wore heavy armour?

They never went in for much full plate, but mail/ plate and mail combinations were very common.

Go to /hwg/, grab some Middle Eastern-themed Osprey's and look at picture after picture of Arabs (and Persians etc etc) in heavy armour.

Kataphraktoi were found in north Arabia.

Persian cataphracts bro.

You fucking retard, goddamn Africans in the goddamn desert wore heavy mail armour.

Getting fucked up by the heat in armour is relative to the environment you grow up in.

>They never went in for much full plate, but mail/ plate and mail combinations were very common.
IIRC the Middle-Eastern people never adopted plate armour because of lobbying by the armour-making guilds.

They realised that making plate would turn a large amount of armour makers jobless since you no longer need a fuckload of ring/lammelar piece makers, and no more ring/lammelar binders.

So they said "nope!" to the government.

Plus, shockingly, no one wore armor for anymore than they had to, and some areas of the 'desert' could be quite cool, especially highlands.

The only reason Arabs didn't wear plate was to avoid sandworms.

If your setting doesn't have sandworms then go nuts.

Egyptians used to make icecream from frozen water on cold nights.

>we wuz

>dairy queens

>How to justify heavy armor in an arabian nights setting?

Pic related.

It both existed and was used historically?

This meme is staler than King Tut's taint.

A selection of Osprey plates

Guard number one is wearing a mail hauberk with coif underneath the robes, while Guard number two is also wearing mail with a scale hauberk over the top.

A very rich wizard invented the way to build tiny bits of ice elementals into armor.

>high magic
>imprisoning elementals
>only one wizzzard
THERE IS NO WAY THIS COULD GO WRONG.

Lizardfolk.

Lizards can't regulate their body temperatures in general. They'd overheat faster than we would wouldn't they?

Play the exotic foreigner character, hailing from the far west.

Front and centre is a Iranian cataphract. Full body mail with lamellar over the top and a barded horse. Until full plate is invented 700 years later these guys are the most heavily armoured troops around.

By telling your players/readers/viewewers that it happened all the fucking time. In fact, the middle east had anheavy older tradition in heavy armored horsemen than western europe.

With a knee length hauberk and mail chausses on his legs, Figure 2 is wearing exactly the same armour as the Frankish knights of his day.

Cataphracts.

By the beard of the Prophet, user! Ice wizard nowdays is a fat fuck lazing around in his bigass castle, complete with every Magical Realm you can think of.
His guild (or to be more precise, the apprentices of his apprentices) make all the work, amassing the wealth of the guild, which nowdays is trying to build in fire elementals and whatnot to expand trade to foreign lands. He's the CEO of that shit, at least nominally.

>IIRC the Middle-Eastern people never adopted plate armour because of lobbying by the armour-making guilds.

That's interesting, I don't suppose you have a source for that? I always wondered why native production of full plate never took off, especially since the demand for heavy armour was clearly there.

Mgic metal that's immune to magic castings that is prevalent amongst desert dwelling demons and djinnis

Not him but, after reading a little about the spaniards and the portuguese in Ormuz, it seems like something was going very badly in the middle east economy in the early modern ages (the highest point of european heavy armor).

I remember a letter that mentions the iberians sending iron bars to the persians to make swords, and the persians asking for longer bars because they don't have the means to make longer swords from two short bars.

The Ottoman Empire was probably in a better shape, but probably only where the hand of the sultan reached.

Some do, some don't. One presumes lizardfolk living in the desert would be of a species adapted to the heat.

you don't have to, the persians used heavy armor when they had it. cataphracts are classic.

>it seems like something was going very badly in the middle east economy in the early modern ages
Lots of steppe people sieging and raiding the Middle-East.

The main reason why the Middle-East is so backwards is because the destruction the steppe people of Central-Asia was so absurd and cataclysmic, that it made an easy and fertile ground for populist hyper-radical forms of Islam. Before the steppe people started fucking shit up, the Middle-East was liberal and progressive as fuck.

YOU HAVE A HORSE

/cruisecontrol

There're source materials to craft heavy armors
There're wars
Weaponry in the setting can be stopped by heavy armor making it useful

Think you mean, Dehgans. Cataphract were eastern roman iirc.

Or you could just rule that it's not that hot usually. You probably never would have thought of that.

But as has been pointed out in the thread, cultures in hot regions both dry and humid used heavy armour.

The idea that a desert-dwelling culture (i.e. Arabia or the fantasy counter-part as per OP) would avoid heavy armour is a misconception that has no real basis in fact. Temperature is really not that big of a factor in determining a warrior's equipment.