Quote Originally Posted by BreathlessTao View Post
Supplement: don't even try the "tail armour" explanation please. It's gear for mages, for sanity's sake, mages wear clothes (as obvious from every other piece of caster gear), not armours. It doesn't make any more sense than the tail-boner itself.
Papalymo would like to have a word with you (notice plate armor, at one point in 1.0 you could wear any armor type iirc):