[MaxWilson]

I'm AFC so I can't check/quote the Aegis description. Oh well, such is life.

We agree, though, that the fact that the Shield of the Accursed gives good protection against missiles is an unintended side-effect of its thematically good "defense" (in the form of melee parry). Ergo, stat bonuses don't always correlate perfectly with thematic intent and that's okay; so a defense bonus to Jomon armor doesn't strictly-speaking have to denote better mobility. It could denote spikes or something that the enemy would try to avoid impaling itself on, etc., and even if that gave you more ability to avoid an Earthquake it would be okay--even canonical items have problems.

And KissBlade is right that this is *still* massively OT from his original post. Fine. I propose that all cap-only mages should become recruitable-anywhere. Hmmm. I should mod that into my game. It would certainly make me more willing to play 80% of the nations out there.

-Max