Berserker's Privateer Shoulders catch the lamplight with a brutal gleam, two hammered plates of iron stitched to a frame of weather-worn leather, the edges scarred by salt and skirmish. Red pennants etched along the vambraced leather ripple with every stride, while brass rivets bite back the dark like a chorus of tiny anchors. A narrow crest—a snarling sea-beast curled around an old compass rose—snags the eye, hinting at voyages where fortune rode the wake of cannon fire. The texture is a singer’s rasp and a smith’s hammer all at once: cool, metallic, and somehow soft in the places your hands remember brushing rope and tar. The helm of its design nods to privateers who spoke the language of wind and weather, a reminder that protection can be as much a story as a shield. In combat, the shoulders feel like a loud exhale you didn’t know you were holding. They carry the weight of a ruthless resolve, the kind that makes a warrior’s breath tighten into a focused line and every strike seem a dare to the horizon. When the moment comes—when you surge forward in a thinning hallway of pikes and pets of frost—the shoulders lend a certain gravity to your silhouette, an impression of relentless advance. They’re built for aggression: edges that catch the eye, plates that clang in a chorus of impact, and leather that answers the body’s tempo with a tighten of sinew. You move with a reckless grace, as if you’re listening to a distant sea where every gust tests your resolve. It isn’t just armor; it’s a declaration that you will meet danger headlong, and you’ll do it with a swagger that makes the crowd lean closer to hear the story you’re telling with every step. Lore threads through the gear like a line across a map. The Privateer part of the name anchors the shoulders to nights spent loitering at port taverns, where old captains trade tall tales for the loudest laughs and the sharpest blades. A privateer’s honor was earned in the wind-salt hours when a ship’s fate hung on a thread of seamanship and nerve; these shoulders carry that same nerve and that same bite, as if the wearer might parley with a storm or out-sprint a chase through a harbor’s fog. Put on them, and you feel the world tilt into a rolling, oceanic logic—where every doorway, every alley, and every rooftop ladder could be part of a larger voyage you’re destined to finish. Market life glides into the candlelight as easily as a gull glides over a lee shore. At Saddlebag Exchange, the price tags gleam with a salt-brined glimmer, coins jangling like small bells as the shopkeeper counts out stories with the silver. The bargaining isn’t just about metal and cloth but about reputation, about a wearer who can command a crowd with a single say-so and a look that makes men inch closer to hear what’s owed and what’s earned. The price—whatever number the day bears—feels like a tide: it ebbs, it flows, and you decide how far you’re willing to ride. And when you finally clasp the Shoulders, you’re not just paying for gear—you’re paying for a history you’ll carry forward, a resolve you’ll wear, and a sea you’ll answer to in the hours when the lights go low and the world grows louder.