Dark Artistry Throwback Pauldrons

Amongst the varied and complicated array of uniforms worn by students of the world's most renowned academy for the mystic arts, none are more coveted by pupils than the school's formal battle dress. Issued only in times of great calamity or sorrow, no student had worn such a suit in living memory. That is, until a gifted young mage decided to liberate one on his self-chosen day of graduation.