The Vah Shir are a
competent, spiritual
people. Their life on
Luclin helped them to
become a very close-knit
society, but did not
prevent them from being
open-minded enough to
accept strangers into their
city when they began to
arrive from Norrath in
large numbers. The Vah
| Shir have two strong sides
to their personalities; on
one hand they are wise,
thoughtful beings with a
link to their ancestors and
a wonderful sense of their
place in the universe. On
the other hand they are
fierce, violent and cagey
in battle, much like the
large cats they so
resemble. This dichotomy
|
|
does not disturb them in
the least, it is who they
are. This understanding
and acceptance of who they
are allows them to live in
an orderly society where
there is little crime and
people feel safe with their
neighbors. These books
explore the art,
architecture and symbols
used by the Vah Shir. They
| provide in-depth
understanding of how these
objects affect the people
that created them, but it
also focuses on their use
as military and
governmental insignia and
on armor worn by members of
those groups.
This text focuses on the
symbols that unify the Vah
|
|
Shir most strongly. These
are most commonly used by
government agencies, but
they have also been adopted
by many heroes and
individual Vah Shir. The
author points out that the
reason heroes use these
symbols is because of their
great devotion to their own
people, but he also notes
that in some cases the
| society has adopted symbols
because of the individual
that the symbol is linked
to.
Among the pages of
discussion about these
symbols is a pattern. This
pattern combines all of the
aspects of the symbols of
Vah Shir society, both
color and form, into a
|
|
single symbol that
represents the soul of Vah
Shir society. You know
that you will be able to
reproduce this pattern many
times before the book
becomes worn and you must
replace it.
To create a pattern for
tailoring armor templates
based on these patterns you
| will need this book, a
large bottle of ink, a roll
of superb vellum, a quill
and a compacted backpack to
hold the patterns you will
make. You'll also need a
book binding to do the
work.
|
