About five minutes into playing a Dwarven Noble Origin I noticed that the guards in the Diamond quarter had some rather curious shields...they were wooden and had what appeared to be the image of a skeletal bird painted on them. According to their utc files, these guards are in fact equipped with Greagoir's Shield. Yes. Greagoir. The Knight-Commander of Kinloch Hold. Now this shield doesn't have any particularly Templar-ish features...but the design on it "appears to be Alamarri" according to the Dragon Age Wiki and it is...y'know...wood.

So I decided to switch the shields those guards had with something that makes more sense for dwarven guards in Orzammar to have and while looking through the options on the wiki discovered that the Carta Shield's item description explicitly states that wood is dismissed by Orzammar society as "disposable because it is sky-touched and not from the Stone".

So back to the Dragon Age Toolset I went to see if any other non-Carta NPC shields in Orzammar happened to be wood and therefore in need of replacement and discovered that the Dwarven Commoner Origin was...actually pretty on top of things. No needs for shield alterations whatsoever. The Noble Origin and Main Questline Orzammar on the other hand had a few shields that made no canonical sense floating around! Which is extra-ironic since the Commoner Origin and Main Questline versions of Orzammar mostly equipped the guards of Orzammar with--oh, wow!--a standard-issue and Very Official Orzammar Guard Shield!

...Which the wiki somehow has no record of existing? Despite having pages on other shields that are impossible to retrieve without altering game files? Huh.

Whatever, at least it gives me an easy solution to the issue of what to re-equip those guards in the Dwarven Noble Origins with.

Now, there were a few nobles in Main Questline Orzammar that had kite and tower shields while Orzammar as a whole seems to have a preference for the circular variations--likely because their shorter legs and lower center of gravity completely undoes the benefits a kite shield has for humans and elves, right? Right?--but I decided to leave those nobles be so long as they weren't committing the borderline-blasphemy of carrying wooden shields as they probably found the more surface-shaped styles stylish and/or thought it set them apart visually from their compatriots.

In fact, the only two metal shields I replaced in all of Orzammar was a kite shield that was equipped by a guard and a Legion of the Dead shield that Wojech Ivo had for...some reason?

Oh, and I also altered the Model Variation Number in the uti file for Ruck's Shield. I would have let it be if it weren't for the fact that the material is listed as Steel and the description says that it was the masterwork of a member of the Smith caste...but the Model was that of a small WOODEN buckler? I just switched the number for that of the metal variety which, btw, was only one digit off so I can only assume that this particular inconsistency was the result of a typo.

This is my very first mod that I am releasing for public use, so please let me know if there are any issues or potential improvements!