: In 'Out of The Barrier' we are told: "Alric babbled
: about a suit of armor so powerful that its wearer was
: invulnerable to attack and tireless in battle. He
: claimed that it was buried somewhere in the eastern
: desert, and that he had been sent by The Head to
: retrieve it."
: This armor sounds very much like the armor Balor wears,
: with the exception that Balor is eventually killed
: whilst wearing his armor, and this armor is supposed
: to make the wearer invulnerable. Just a thought.
Yes! Somebody else thinks so! Woohoo!
I've argued this point a dozen times and nobody's every said anything about it (and it seems to be a common belief that the armor never really existed, but was just a ploy by the Head).
Look at the picture of Balor from "The Ibis Crown". He's old and decrepid, isn't he? Now look at him in the cutscene before "Pools of Iron", fifty years later. He's young and handsome (well, if you go for that "dark and evil" look). Shouldn't he been even older and more decrepid?
I think the armor continually regenerates the body of it's wearer, making any wounds inflicted heal instantly and any fatigue disappear, giving the effect of making him "invulnerable to attack and tireless in battle". It would also explan how Balor got a facelift between the sack of Muirthemne and the end of the war.
(BTW, the only reason Alric could defeat Balor was because he had an Eblis stone, "which for a moment made him an equal of Balor").
