Lycanleather

This rare form of leather armor is often misidentified as standard leather armor with odd tanning processes. The exterior is covered with stiff hair while the inside is cured and hardened as expected with leather armor. The fur can come in various colors and particularly impressive suits make use of more than one kind of animal fur with different color and fur qualities. The armor is nearly impossible to repair by even the most skilled leather workers and armorers, with added leather quickly peeling away from the original work, and metal pieces coming loose and falling out. The armor is often discarded after battle damage and failed attempts to repair it.

The production of this armor is incredible gruesome. Lycanthropes are forced into their animal form, and their hides are cut from their living bodies. The process requires great skill to avoid killing the lycanthrope and having the body revert to human shape, ruining any skins being removed in the process. Evil lycanthropes typically capture newly turned victims and remove their skins during the full Moon. Victims that survive the process have no memory of it, but are often meaner for having endured it. While it is easiest to use newly turned victims of their own kind, other types of lycanthropes are sometimes captured and used, while the rarest suits might make use of several types of lycanthropes. The Cult of Malar often seeks out good and neutral lycanthropes for this process.

Lycanleather can be repaired by using strips of leather obtained from a lycanthrope and processes for use as leather, but this is often unnecessary. Lycanleather will naturally repair damage at the rate of 1 point of damage per week until it can be worn.