
The Unseen Burden: The True Weight of a Knight’s Armor
The Forge of Flesh and Iron The First Dawn: The Weight of Becoming Before the battle, there is the squire. The clatter of plate on stone. The slow, laborious ritual of becoming. Each strap pulled tight is a surrender of the soft self. The padding soaks not with rain, but with the sweat of transformation. To don the armor is to be buried alive in your own resolve, to trade








