Grynings stil
Grynings stil or "the style of the dawn" is the armour that evolved in northern Imeriata and Vedian and took most of it's inspiration from the heroic images from the old days in the bronze and iron age. While armour in the south was often coloured either by paint or by beating the colour into the metalwork so did armour makers designing armour in Grynings stil not include too much colour. Instead did they simply cover the armour in a thin layer of bronze or iron or just simply cover pieces in leather to make it look more ancient. For decorations and to help the wearer stick out in battle was it however common to carve ancient symbols into the armour itself and shape the helmet into looking more like faces either of ancient dead heroes or the wearer himself.
Over time did it develop a massive rivalry between the various stiles and the men that made and wore them. The large combat academy in Coparborg for instance refused to accept members that did not wear suits of armour made in Grynings stil. Combat manuals from the time reflects that to a certain degree and they mentions way to ruin other stiles entirely to force the wearer to pay as much as possible to repair it. Against Grynings stil so was it common to advise people to strike at the horns or try to dent the detailed facial helmets.
Name
The name itself comes from gryningstiden "or the time of the dawn" which was a historical period in Scanderan history around the bronze age and is the beginning of recorded Scanderan history. So the style of the dawn often is translated as saying "armour designed as in the stile used in the age of the dawn".
early Grynings stil
The first suits made in this stile is rather simple things with leather, fur and so on and just a few bronzed armours but otherwise were very hard to tell apart from non-painted Flodlands stil armour.
high Grynings stil
The high Grynings stil armours however started to make themselves stand out more in the end of the 15th century when the armours were made entirely covered in leather and bronze and with massive symbols covering the armours themselves. Chainmail, scalearmour, laminar armour was also very commonly imitated by having thin leaf thick sheets of metal attached to the armour itself.
Late Grynings stil
At the end of the armour designs so did Gryningstil grow out into full bloom, while armours made in flodlands stil were redesigned to be more simpler so did armour in Söders stil and Gryning stil get more and more elaborate and the faces carved into helmets in Grynings stil became more and more common as well as more and more detailed and the latest versions of the armours were said to be so lifelike that helmets have been used to study various facial hair fashions, certain helmets even includes scars, stubble, dimples and other imperfections carved into them.