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Brijeka demonstrates how a (wealthy) warrior from the Tempian bronze age looked like (albeit a female warrior would have been uncommon but Brijeka doesn't really want to change her gender soooooo...). She wears a suit of bronze lamellar armour covering most of the body and fights primarily with a swordstaff-esque polearm (i.e. a big stick with a sword blade on the end; it also has a smaller point on the reverse end for extra versatility). She also carries a regular sword as a sidearm.

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The Tempian 'bronze age' began as a result of attacks by peoples crossing the Pacific from the west and the then neolithic Tempians looking for materials with which to arm themselves and so defend their homes. Coherent and organised states also formed in this period, roughly corresponding to Tempia's current ten states, and interaction between them developed Tempian metal working skills further. Although Tempians were beginning to work iron during the later stages of this broad period, the Tempian bronze age is only considered to truly end following contact with Europeans in South East Asia and the arrival of Magellan in Shirack during his circumnavigation of the globe (this introduced to Tempia the idea of steel and gunpowder, among other things, which they eagerly adopted).

I'm not sure who the invaders from across the Pacific ('Sea Peoples' in Tempian) would be. Their encounter with Tempia would be a few thousand years prior to the arrival of Polynesian settlers in the same area according to real life so they couldn't be possibly Polynesians. Maybe fictional cousins of the people who would become Indigenous Australians, slowly spreading across the Pacific only to eventually largely die out by the time Polynesian peoples arrive on the scene?

Neolithic Brijeka
Cold War Brijeka
Modern Tempia

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Was there an Inktober prompt about 'armour'? I dunno... Kinda forgot about Inktober when midsem break ended. Oh well...

Description
Brijeka demonstrates how a (wealthy) warrior from the Tempian bronze age looked like (albeit a female warrior would have been uncommon but Brijeka doesn't really want to change her gender soooooo...). She wears a suit of bronze lamellar armour covering most of the body and fights primarily with a swordstaff-esque polearm (i.e. a big stick with a sword blade on the end; it also has a smaller point on the reverse end for extra versatility). She also carries a regular sword as a sidearm.

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The Tempian 'bronze age' began as a result of attacks by peoples crossing the Pacific from the west and the then neolithic Tempians looking for materials with which to arm themselves and so defend their homes. Coherent and organised states also formed in this period, roughly corresponding to Tempia's current ten states, and interaction between them developed Tempian metal working skills further. Although Tempians were beginning to work iron during the later stages of this broad period, the Tempian bronze age is only considered to truly end following contact with Europeans in South East Asia and the arrival of Magellan in Shirack during his circumnavigation of the globe (this introduced to Tempia the idea of steel and gunpowder, among other things, which they eagerly adopted).

I'm not sure who the invaders from across the Pacific ('Sea Peoples' in Tempian) would be. Their encounter with Tempia would be a few thousand years prior to the arrival of Polynesian settlers in the same area according to real life so they couldn't be possibly Polynesians. Maybe fictional cousins of the people who would become Indigenous Australians, slowly spreading across the Pacific only to eventually largely die out by the time Polynesian peoples arrive on the scene?

Neolithic Brijeka
Cold War Brijeka
Modern Tempia

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Was there an Inktober prompt about 'armour'? I dunno... Kinda forgot about Inktober when midsem break ended. Oh well...