The leather jerkin is an armour item in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and is classed as a body plate. It comes in at four varieties.
Description[]
Worn by many brigands and footpads, yet this jerkin outlived each and every one of them, as it doesn't offer much protection.
How to Obtain[]
- Almost all of them are found mostly on lower level bandits, with some degree of armor, usually found in the bandit camps strewn throughout the woodlands of Bohemia.
- The light colored leather jerkin can be looted from a bandit corpse during a random encounter in Skalitz.
Worn by[]
- A Bandit in a Bandit camp located in the wooded cliff North of Treasure XVI location, near two Birds nests. The camp is a part of the Activity Interlopers(44/41 variant)
Notes[]
- Historical Accuracy: While leather garments have been known to exist during the Medieval period, they did not take the shape of vests or jackets and were definitely not specifically for bandits to wear. Leather was expensive and would more often than not have been used to create more important utensils, such as shoes or straps and buckles for countless things.
- However, a case can be made for these items in the game, as these jerkins appear to be made of ragged and "jury rigged" to make some sort of protection, likely made from ruined leather items, be them shoes, or old hides of lower quality.
- More proper leather armor, known as cuir bouilli (boiled leather), was occasionally used in the early 14th century and more rarely after. Cuir bouilli was generally worn by knights over maille armor as an additional rigid layer of protection and was rare for infantry, though it eventually became phased out by the development of brigandines and plate cuirasses (which derive their name from cuir bouilli). Similar armor was also used in this time period and slightly before by the nomadic peoples of central Asia such as the Mongols.