Talos Aegis is the first armour ever worn by Kalshodar. Although it looks crude and bulky by modern standards, it was both a marvel and a terror in its time. 

​

When the Kalshodar began to march down from the Mountain, nobody had seen fully enclosed armour before so assumed there was no man inside of; surely no man could be so large anyway. Must be some magical automatoi of the Dwarves, maybe even made by the dwarf god himself, Hephaistos. 

​

Some clever sort said that they looked as he'd always imagined Talos must when attacking the Argonauts; the name stuck - Talos Aegis. 

​

Not just some impressive metalwork here though, the Talos Aegis, though ancient, was epocs ahead of its time. The suit itself weighed close to seven talents and not even the improved physique of a Kalshodar could bear fighting in it for longer than, say, five seconds. 

​

The solution to that was a curious mixture of Dwarf and goblin ingenuity; Dwarves make excellent levers, pulleys, and systems of counterbalance and nobody makes better clockwork than a goblin. Perhaps the mechanismn that bears best testiment to this relationship is what can only be called a clockwork servo motor; using something resembling a timing spring, something very like a series of miniature gearboxes, together with a lot of lever and pulley systems, all fitting in a knee or elbow joint, for example (although larger ones could be found for shoulders, hips, lower and upper abdomen, etc). 

​

With all of this, combined with the weight, a Kalshodar could reach quite the decent level of momentum in a charge. 

​

Stopping, however, was a different story.