ARMERIA LACENSIS

The Naval Outfitter  ·  Arms and Personal Equipment  ·  Officers’ Quarter, Portus Lacus

"The naval outfitter’s establishment serves people who understand equipment. They are not impressed by presentation and are not tolerant of performance. The proprietor’s selection reflects this: nothing on display that does not function at the level the clientele requires, nothing recommended that the proprietor has not personally assessed at sea. I purchased nothing on my visit but found the assessment of current naval equipment quality more useful than anything I had read on the subject."

— G.C.P.S.A., Descriptio Aethermarchae, 1197 A.P.

The Armeria Lacensis serves the Officers’ Quarter’s senior naval officers and the commercial repair customers who recognise the quality difference between standard civilian maritime equipment and what is available here. The proprietor, Julia Castrensis, forty-three, the second generation of her family in the role, was trained as a naval armourer before her father’s injury required her to take over the civilian business. She has maintained both the skills and the professional assessment standards of her naval training, and her equipment selections reflect the judgment of someone who has used what she sells in conditions that test whether it actually works.

The establishment sells arms, armour, and personal maritime equipment at the standard appropriate for officers who operate in the interior sea’s specific conditions: equipment designed for shipboard use, resistant to salt air and spray, functional in the movement constraints that a ship’s deck imposes. The selection is not as broad as Ferrum Nobile in Lacusum or as technically specialised as Thalgrimmson’s, but it is the best available on the northern shore for the specific requirements of naval personal equipment.

Valuables

Personal armour: ring and scale in salt-resistant materials, the naval officer’s dress configuration and the working configuration for shipboard operations. Weapons: swords in the naval officer’s standard configuration (shorter than the land-service equivalent, weighted for shipboard movement), naval boarding axes, the officer’s dirk that the Classis’s tradition specifies. Maritime personal equipment: the navigation instruments that Julia selects from suppliers who meet her assessment standard, the personal compass and chart case combinations that officers use independent of the chart room, and the waterproofing treatments that the northern shore’s harsher conditions require over Lacusum’s gentler weather. Signal equipment: the personal signal kit that each officer carries when detached from the fleet, including the current-specification authentication tokens that the Classis’s identification system requires.

Type

Store

Parent Location

PORTUS LACUS

Owner

Julia Castrensis

Pricing
Naval officer’s dress configuration: 80–140 aurei.
Working armour: 60–100 aurei.
Weapons naval standard: 40–90 aurei.
Navigation instruments: 25–80 aurei by type.
Signal kit complete set: 55 aurei.