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Question: How do you propose a Scion that comes from a culture that doesn’t use much armor (or any at all) use the War 7 Boon Colossus Armor?

This is really a question of stunting and flavor, but those things are at the heart of the game, so it's a good one anyway. Colossus Armor is indeed much easier to envision for cultures that have easily recognizable armor fashions, like the Japanese samurai or the Roman centurions, than it is for folks like the Gauls, who generally ran into battle screaming and mostly naked.

Let's ignore, for a moment, what Colossus Armor's mechanics actually do; it makes you very large, very strong and very sturdy, but that's going to happen no matter what form it takes, so it's not really relevant to trying to figure out what the armor itself looks like for individual Scions. To begin with, there are very few cultures that had no armor whatsoever, so start with a little research; since the mechanics don't really depend on the kind of armor here (because this is a War boon and you are a War god, so people saying "but your armor doesn't cover your knees!" are not really making a valid point), armor that doesn't fit the Giant Suit of Armor idea is still perfectly acceptable. A Scion of the Aztlanti might suddenly appear in a massive ichcahuipilli regardless of the fact that it only covers the chest without taking any penalties from what is clearly a culture-appropriate stunting of a power.

If you've got absolutely no armor options (Gauls and African warriors have a particularly hard time with this), then consider stunting more creative ways of armoring yourself. A Gaulish warrior, for example, might appear covered in giant swaths of woad war-paint, which would not in the regular world confer any armored protection but which should work just fine for a Gaulish war-god activating his Colossus Armor. If there's nothing cultural to go on, some Scions may have to fall back on imagery that's more tailored to their personality or other powers - an African death god might become covered in the bones of her deceased ancestors, for example, or an Australian earth-god might appear with the dust and stone of his native land forming impenetrable armor to fit him.

While it's easy to get bogged down in the idea that this has to be a full, enormous suit of armor (particularly with that picture in the Scion book of the giant centurion suit), there's really no reason that should be so, any more than every Scion should have to stunt their Warrior Ideal or Dreadful Mien or Mystery exactly the same based on their culture of origin. It's absolutely a great idea for those players who love that culture's war-gear aesthetics and want to be part of them, but if a Scion doesn't have an appropriate source in their home culture, or even just wants to reinterpret themselves a little differently, there's no reason that they can't if they're not infringing on another culture's imagery. Colossus Armor's effects don't vary with the armor's appearance, so players should feel free to stunt whatever's most mythically badass and makes the most sense for their character.