The aelves of the Lumineth Realm-lords are a people of discipline and enlightenment, and their Sunmetal Weapons reflect that philosophy in forged steel. The spears of the Vanari Auralan Guard and the blades of their kindred are wrought with veins of sunmetal, an alloy that lies dormant and cool until the wielder achieves a strike of perfect focus, whereupon it flares white-hot with captured sunlight.
This is no crude enchantment but the fruit of long meditation and martial mastery. A Lumineth warrior trains for decades to still the mind and body, to loose a thrust at the exact instant of clarity that awakens the sunmetal. When the discipline holds, an entire phalanx can bring their weapons to blazing life in a single synchronised heartbeat, and the ranks of the enemy are seared and blinded by a wall of sudden radiance.
The Lumineth regard this union of weapon and will as a mirror of their wider creed, for they believe that mastery of the self is the truest weapon of all. The sunmetal does not shine for the fearful or the undisciplined; it answers only the composed and the certain. In the hands of a great aelven hero, a sunmetal blade becomes a shard of the sun itself, and the shadows of Chaos wither before its light.
The armoury continues
