The old saying holds: whoever has no head has no need of legs.
A leather helmet is now available — the first roof a hunter can put over their thoughts.
It matters more than it looks. Equipment is not decoration here: every piece you wear carries a defense of its own — a range, not a promise — and the world adds up everything you have on when it decides how hard you fall. A head with leather over it argues better with the dark.
The helmet joins a wardrobe that has been growing quietly — amulets, body armour, shields, belts, greaves, gloves — a place on the body for every kind of protection, and a slot in your equipment for each.
And as with everything in this world: find a better one than you can make, and take it apart. Learn how it was done. The forge remembers.
