A Leagues of Votann Armour Crest mounted on personal void armour to provide protection.
An Armour Crest, also called a Shield Crest and a Weavefield Crest, is a type of personal defensive force field generator in the form of a decorative void armour or exo-armour crest, that is used by many of the military personnel of the Leagues of Votann. They are capable of being overcharged in order to project strengthened energy fields that will attenuate all incoming kinetic and directed energy attacks for short periods of time. They are most commonly employed by Hearthkyn Warrior theyns, Einhyr Hearthguard hesyrs and Einhyr Champions.
The Kin make a specialty of force field technologies. The crowning glory and most ubiquitous example of Brôkhyr force field technology is the Weavefield Projector. Variants of Weavefield Projector have been developed for everything from personal protection for void miners and soldiers of the line, to massive examples that are used to protect Kin voidships.
The system employs an energy-weaving technique called "weavewërke" which interlaces energy frequencies common to both refractor and conversion field technology employed by the Imperium, interlinked with more exotic energies -- such as magnetic repulsion fields. The resultant multispectral energy shield is maintained either in a personal energy cowl, or else projected outwards to form a protective dome, the better to shelter entire squads of Kin warriors or bands of Cthonian miners.
Amongst the Kinhosts, Weavefield Projectors are commonly worked into armoured crests worn on personal armour or mounted on war engines. From here, their shimmering, amber energies flow outward into translucent energy domes, capable of intercepting even esoteric or apocalyptic-scale munitions depending on the scale and capacity of their power generators.
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- Codex: Leagues of Votann (9th Edition), pp. 33, 90, 93-94
- Warhammer Community - The Latest Leagues of Votann Battle Report Shows Them at Their Most Dangerous