Military Uniforms of Sastrugia Ft. The four active Oblations of War
Yay for finishing a piece of digital artwork since over 2 years ago. Infodump under the cut.
Sastrugia, as much as it may lag behind in the study of magecraft relative to the world's leading nations, advances in research and development of technological weapons (including firearms) and combat gear.
Figure 1: Dress Uniform
Ft. (a) Zylin Skerr "Cleaver", (b) Salem Skerr "Tremor".
Sastrugia's dress uniform presents the national colours of hunter green and antique gold, with accessory colours of silver, brown, and charcoal. It is styled for the weather of the nation's origin of cold deserts.
All military personnel can wear and should maintain a set of regular dress uniform (Fig. 1b). Senior officers and those given specific permission are able to wear an alternative style of the dress uniform (Fig. 1a) with a long coat, beret, and trousers tucked into long boots.
Notes for Oblations:
Most soldiers wear two identical pins with the national insignia of the Sastrugian dunes on their collars; Oblations however must wear the pin of their family insignia (see Fig. 4) on their left collar.
Oblations of War, specifically, wear blank epaulets where military rank would otherwise be denoted - Oblations of War are directly assigned to a supervisor per mission, thus have undefined ranks.
Oblations of War are given allowance to keep long hair, however must still adhere to styling code when in dress uniform.
Fun fact: the standard design (Fig. 1b) is based on the first outfit I designed for Aeollis in AoH.
Figure 2: Combat Uniform
Ft. (a) Serrak Tjarn "Winter", (b) Eryth Rogen "Harvest".
While Sastrugia's dress uniform reflects the nation's history and identity, its combat uniform embodies its values in practicality and efficiency.
There are modular components in the uniform that can be altered and arranged according to climate, terrain, and exposure; for example: the hood is detachable, the collar can be standing or stand-and-fall, and sleeves can be rolled up and fastened into position.
There are four colour themes for the combat uniform - see Fig. 3. Presented here are Sand (Fig. 2a) and Steel (Fig. 2b).
Notes for Oblations:
As for the dress uniform (Fig. 1), Oblations of War wear blank epaulets with their combat uniform to denote the fluid status of their rank.
Where soldiers would usually wear their surnames on a patch sewn onto the hem of their left chest pocket, Oblations wear patches presenting their family insignia (see Fig. 4).
Figure 3: Themes
Presented here are four colour schemes for the combat uniform (Fig. 2), named thematically for convenience:
Shrub: used in vegetated terrain - forests, woodlands, fields.
Snow: presents the colours of the oldest combat uniform, used mostly in snowy and icy terrain, rarely also in ashy terrain.
Sand: the most used theme in recent history due to the amount of troops deployed to the southern front facing the deserted deadlands of the Southern (Yardan) Exclusion Zone.
Steel: used in recent history in urban and suburban warfare; the colours are also versatile enough to be used in low-light environments.
Figure 4: Insignia
Each of the six Elevated Families have their unique insignia to conveniently denote their members (especially their Oblations of War, which is an important matter of pride). These symbols are designed to be simple, recognisable, and able to be easily crafted into accessories.
Etymology and design concepts - theme: glacial geomorphology Skerr - skerry: small rocky island/islet formed at the outlets of fjords Fjorde - fjord/fiord: sea inlet bound by cliffs in a glacial valley Os - esker/eskar/eschar/os: ridge formed by deposited sediments revealed by melted glacier Sandr - outwash plain/sandar/sandr: plain of meltwater outwash at terminus of glacier Tjarn - tarn/corrie loch: mountain lake in a glacier-excavated cirque Rogen - Rogen moraine/ribbed moraine: a type of hummocky moraine formed under a glacier
