The Story Behind the Armory

Meet the Makers of Asgardian Armory

Custom leather armor, chainmail and scalemail made by a husband-and-wife team who have spent decades at Renaissance faires. When you order from Asgardian Armory, you are working directly with the people who make it.

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The Allfather of Booth #211

Odin, Leathersmith

At the Texas Renaissance Festival everyone knows him as Odin. He has been working leather for more than 30 years, and the full leather workshop he runs in Missouri City is where every Asgardian Armory piece begins: breastplates, bracers, gauntlets, helms, pouches and full suits of custom leather armor.

Renaissance festivals have been his passion for just as long. Over three decades on the faire circuit taught him what armor has to do in the real world. It has to fit, it has to move, and it has to hold up to Texas heat and long festival weekends. That is the standard every commission is built to.

Every leather piece, whether Odin cuts it himself or one of the artisans who work through his shop helps bring it to life, is made under the Asgardian Armory name.

Odin of Asgardian Armory, custom leather armor maker
Breanne hand-making custom chainmail at Asgardian Armory
Maille and Leather

Breanne, Maille Maker

Breanne has been hand-crafting chainmail and scalemail for more than 20 years and has worked with leather for 15. Every link of chainmail and every scale that leaves the shop passes through her hands.

She works in steel and aluminum and builds all types of designs, from coifs and scale shirts to armor accents and chainmail jewelry. If you can describe the weave or the pattern you want, she can build it one link at a time.

A Faire Love Story

Forged at the Renaissance Festival

The Renaissance Festival experience is one that is very dear to both of them. Their story started at the faire, and it never left.

2001

They Met at the Faire

Odin and Breanne met at the Texas Renaissance Festival.

2013

Engaged Under the Fireworks

They got engaged under the fireworks on the festival’s closing weekend.

2015

Married at Sherwood Forest

They married at Sherwood Forest Faire.

Today

The Castle at Booth #211

They took over ownership of their castle, Shoppe #211 at the Texas Renaissance Festival, and keep bringing their craft to a wider audience.

Three Decades on the Circuit

Faires Odin Has Worked

Over more than 30 years, Odin has brought his work to festivals across Texas and beyond, including these.

Dickens on the Strand

Excalibur

Four Winds

Hawkwood Medieval Fantasy Faire

Muskogee Faire

Scarborough Faire

Sherwood Forest Faire

Texas Renaissance Festival

Made in the U.S.A.

One Shop, Many Hands

Odin leads the leatherwork. Breanne makes every piece of chainmail and scalemail. A trusted bladesmith forges the swords, knives and daggers, nearly all of them battle-ready, and a small circle of artisans helps bring the biggest commissions to life.

Whatever you order, you deal directly with the makers, from your first sketch to fitting day. Bring us the picture in your head and we will bring it to life in leather and steel.

Odin and Breanne, the makers behind Asgardian Armory