LEGIONARY SANDALS

BASE ITEM
FEET
LEVEL 15

REQUIRES LEVEL 15

LEGIONARY SANDALS is footwear, wielded from level 15.

The requirement cuts both ways: nothing below level 15 ever drops one, and a hero below it banks the find rather than wearing it.

It is a pool base, so it climbs: the same shape returns later in the campaign as HOBNAILED CALIGAE and GILDED CALIGAE, at requirements the endgame can actually meet.

Hobnailed caligae that marched twenty miles a day for an empire that no longer exists, in a place where distance doesn't either.

What it does

MATERIALLEATHER, which turns 1.15× what the same piece would in cloth.
ALSO DEMANDS5 STRENGTH to wear — heavier materials want a bruiser inside them.
WEARS OUT100 hits taken before it falls silent. It is never destroyed — a worn-out piece still hangs on you contributing nothing until a repair kit brings it back.

A fresh find in the hands of a hero who has spent no stat points — the piece itself, with nothing of the wielder in it. Your own STRENGTH, DEXTERITY or INTELLECT lifts these from there, as does an item level found deeper than the requirement.

Make quality

Every plain drop of this base rolls a make quality on top of the numbers above — the craftsmanship of that particular copy, stamped at the moment it drops and frozen for life. It scales the armor and the wear budget together, and it leads the name: a BROKEN LEGIONARY SANDALS and a PERFECT LEGIONARY SANDALS are the same base item and not the same find.

The bands overlap on purpose, so a good CRUDE can out-swing a poor NORMAL while a PERFECT always clears a NORMAL. Which one you get depends on the level of whatever dropped it: the two odds columns below are a level-1 killer and a level-60 one, and everything between is interpolated. Craftsmanship and magic are exclusive — a magic-or-better find is always normal make.

MAKE	ARMOR	SCALE	ODDS AT MLVL 1	ODDS AT MLVL 60
BROKEN	12–17	0.58–0.82×	20%	0%
CRUDE	15–20	0.73–0.97×	25%	6%
NORMAL	19–23	0.90–1.10×	52%	54%
SUPERIOR	22–27	1.03–1.27×	3%	28%
PERFECT	24–30	1.16–1.44×	0%	12%

What it becomes

The same shape comes back twice more, further down the campaign: an EXCEPTIONAL version and an ELITE one, generated from this base rather than authored beside it. They keep its look, its cadence, its reach and its arc; what changes is the level they ask for and the numbers priced onto the curve at it. A venue that pays this base pays its whole ladder, so a first-map find keeps dropping — as something else — into the endgame.

GRADE	REQUIRES	ARMOR	WEARS	MATERIAL
LEGIONARY SANDALS (normal)	15	21	100	LEATHER
HOBNAILED CALIGAE	42	60	125	LEATHER
GILDED CALIGAE	79	121	150	LEATHER

Named items built on it

These relics wear this shape, with an authored block of bonuses on top — each on the rung of the ladder it names.

OVATION STRIDERS
THE FAR SHOREGILDED CALIGAE

LEGIONARY SANDALS, a base item feet in Ada's Trail, shown on the map of THE RIFT where it drops — LEGIONARY SANDALS — where it drops, in THE RIFT.

Where it comes from

THE RIFT carries it in its drop pool.
BOOT HILL carries it in its drop pool.

Every one of those pools carries HOBNAILED CALIGAE and GILDED CALIGAE along with it — the game expands a pool entry into its whole grade family at roll time — so the same venues keep paying this shape out at requirements 79 deep.