Shalar

The shalar is a traditional Doroun garment, a tailcoat consisting of a form-fitting jacket with wide shoulders, and a square-cut tail or skirt that falls to the floor, partially enclosing the legs. The traditional shalar is closed with loop and stud buttons up the front, with a square-cut collar.

The garment was originally worn by the officer class of the Gaal Empire, with the jacket being made of stiff fabric which could ward off blades, and reinforced shoulder pads that would avert arrows and downward blade thrusts. With the development of armour the shalar became formal military wear, but under the Empire of Dor-en-Sann a burgundy shalar became the exclusive uniform of the priesthood. The jewelled buttons used to fasten the shalar - more buttons meaning a higher rank - caused the historian Zinnober to call the Ensanni period the “Beryl Epoch”.

Historically it was worn with a loincloth wrap or kirtle to the knees, later accompanied by loose-fitting trousers to below the knee or ankle.

After the conquest of the empire by the Great Prophet, the shalar was entirely abandoned in favour of the loose-fitting body wrap called the polma, worn in Old Ororrplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOrorr

Ororr [o-ROARR, ɒ̝rɔ'ɾ], also called the Holy Motherland of Ororr, is a theocratic nation in Anásthias, one of the world's great powers. It the largest nation in the world, perhaps the largest empire in history, occupying the entire northwest of the continent between the mountains and the sea. Ororrlanguagelanguagelanguage, which became standard attire for the Prophet, his followers, and the Mother Army. In later years variants of the shalar have come in and out of fashion, particularly amongst the elites, although their association with imperial conservatism still remains.