| The Obashk is an elven marvel and the 
                      techniques involved in its making is a secret kept to those 
                      who craft it alone. This overapparel is an enamelled fabric- made through a 
                      mixture of craft and enchantement it is both a light armor 
                      impervious to stick, stone and arrow - the back and shoulder 
                      is reinforced incase of falls - and also is woven with wards 
                      to protect young marsu from absorbing any magical energies 
                      that might lead to oubaia
 Tierza, a surcoat of sorts, is usually 
                      woven of silks in family colours or patterns, often bright, 
                      to assist in identifying yound marsupia from a distance. 
                      The method in which both the tierzah and tselh are woven 
                      is such that they readly shed moisture - speeding the drying 
                      of young that might be caught in the rain or fall in a streamlet. Zheru are arm wrappings that have, inside 
                      been quilted with small light ceramic scales - a protective 
                      forearm guard for younglings that are constantly playing 
                      in harsh enviroments but also, as they grow older, increasingly 
                      heavier zheru are worn to build up strength and endurance. 
                      In the very young Zheru often end up being unravelled and 
                      used in play (often a long suffering parent will later go 
                      and untangle yards of this saffron ribbon from thorn bushes 
                      that have been roped into a fort or a sibling that has been 
                      'captured' and tied to a tree). It is a great pride for 
                      any marsu child to be able to bind their own Zheru.The zheru also play a part in supporting the marsu childs 
                      wrists - their excessively long forearm, wrist and hand 
                      bones being especially fragile in youth.
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