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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Armor was a status symbol and includes sexualized designs to demonstrate the girth of your ~~penis~~ prowess.

As I understand it, it was also a sort of advertisement. It was basically saying "It took a lot of money to make this fancy armor, so I'm worth more alive and ransom-able rather then dead on this battlefield"