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>Aesthetics wise, we should either go more Greco-Roman or straight up some alien shit, I feel like the medieval/early modern knight stuff doesn't do the faction justice. Someone suggested Dwemer armor for inspiration and, honestly, that works? Like that's exactly the kind of thing I imagined Atlan immortals wearing? But, you know, more blue-gray.
I think this is largely a case of drawing the wrong sort of early modern armour for ideas. Look at the Horned Helmet of Henry the 8th, or picrel. Weird baroque and grotesque stuff is cool. So is fantasy armour and greco-roman stuff.
The Dwemer armour you posted looks more like what I think a reclaimer would wear. Definitely fitting, but not thick enough for an Immortal.

>Lore-wise, as far as I'm concerned, Atlan had always had a clear theme - an insane xenophobic isolationist army with a state, a dark reflection of Atlantis. This still held true as the lore developed further. Both factions are, as of now, defined by their shared traumatic past - the fall of Old Atlantis, but represent two (and a half) ways of dealing with it, alternating in a kind of cycle.
Agreed 100%