The hell is a "clambercoil"?

Also, do you really need a "special" name for a magic breastplate that... "increases defense", beyond what a normal breastplate would? Isn't that pretty much every piece of "magic" armor, in every game, ever?  Why not just "magic breastplate"? Save the fancy names for really special things that have more distinctive characteristics.

Thanks everyone for the great ideas.  If I need more I'll bump this thread and ask for them.  You guys are awesome!

What happened to the defensive armor? It's not on the accepted list. Did none of our ideas make the cut?

EDIT/

*blind* Dsraider already asked it.... -.-

Unit Abilities:

Experienced (here I vote for oera's)- Unit starts at 2nd level

Battle Trainer - Increases the crit chance all units in this units army (oera)

Faction Abilities:

Smithing Heritage - Halves the metal and labor cost of armor and weapons (Nathikal)

Reptiles Allegiance - Gives the faction the ability to recruit Naja, Ophidian, Drakes and Forest Drakes (snakes and lesser dragons) (Nathikal)

Armor:

Yeti's paws - A magical gauntlets that helps protect the wearer from cold (kapeman)

Eversummer shield, Eye of the Sun, Arctic Sun - A magical shield that helps protect the bearer from cold (Nathikal)

Weapons:

Freezing Death, Frostburn staff - A staff that adds cold damage to attacks (Nathikal)

Severing Blade, Gladius of Pain - A sword that increase the chance to score criticals and increases the damage done from criticals (dsraider)

Swiftblade, Windwalk blade, blade of swiftness - A sword that gives a huge bonus to accuracy and combat speed (Nathikal)

Spells:

Inertia Shield, Gravity bubble - Tactical spell that gives all your allies a bonus vs missile attacks (unacomn)

Monsters:

Ashborn Dragon - Better name for a Red Dragon (Crystlshake)

Kaleesyn - Better name for a Giant Black Widow Spider (DSRaider)

A name derived from 'to clamber' (climb over) and coil evokes a snake like creature and is also a winding action.  In effect its meant to have the imagery of a vine climbing over a tree- it takes a while but it can get to the point where it 'strangles' the tree by depriving it of resources (water and primarily sunlight) since it can grow faster than the tree and prevent it from getting enough light.  I also remember watching a vine in time lapse and you can see it corkscrewing as it grows.  Taproots and runners can function similarly.  Some species of plants thrive with this hostile takeover method.

And now you know the rest of the story.

Have a new one I need help with:

?- Sovereign weakness that reduces Constitution by 3 and only allows the unit to heal 1hp/turn (normally a unit heals level/turn and double that when they re in a city).  I thought about "Scarred" or "Frail" but I'm not a huge fan of either.

stricken, vulnerable, deficient

Shattered Health.

harpo

Sovereign weakness that reduces Constitution by 3 and only allows the unit to heal 1hp/turn (normally a unit heals level/turn and double that when they re in a city).

Ideas:

Decrepit

-or-

Infirm

-or-

Sickly Childhood

As Charles Barkley might say, "lackadaisical" or "lackadaisical fortitude".

broken/maimed/schizophrenic/diseased/broken (arm/leg/whatever)/Feverish/constipated/addicted/drunk/sick/in a stupor/shocked over X event

could tie the whole thing to a loss of family/good friend - depression.

Choleric or Consumptive.

Cursed/Hexed/Bane/Anathema/Nerfed - Sovereign weakness that reduces Constitution by 3 and only allows the unit to heal 1hp/turn (normally a unit heals level/turn and double that when they re in a city). I thought about "Scarred" or "Frail" but I'm not a huge fan of either. 

Afflicted or Burdened

Or maybe "Afflicted Soul"

My suggestion: go magical:  Dralnort's Blight.

A virulent and incurable disease accidentally created by the foul sorcerer Dralnort before the Cataclysm, Dralnort's Blight creates weakness and frailty in its subject if they have the potential to channel magic.

Something like this would be good as its flavorful and it would make sense that there would be strains of ailments original to the world or slang for the same (such as 'the bends'). The angle of using it as filling in part of the sov background also has appeal. Could tie it to one of the titans or something relating to wasteing, rot or disease.

Otherwise going the route of a weakened immune system, I'll throw up Malnourished and Thin Blooded (which if i remember correctly, is slang in the vein of the aforementioned blue blood sugestion).

Edit:  You could also approach it as a flawed connection to what makes them a channeller- approaching it as a type of backlash or harmfull side effect (over exposure/saturation?) of the magical energy.

Inbreed, weak, debilitated, enervated, feeble, soft, effete.

I also like the idea of a magical contagion for this type of penalty. In my mind, it would be even better if it were attached to an in-game quest, such that the particular sovereign might come across an old laboratory with notes concerning the contagion and lead the player on a quest to both discover a bit of lore about the world and put an end to his own suffering. Combining merits and flaws with quests would allow the player to connect with his sovereign while also promoting players to try different combinations with each game.

?- Sovereign weakness that reduces Constitution by 3 and only allows the unit to heal 1hp/turn

A slightly different take on it:

Rake - or Infamous Rake (nod to The Witcher) - Your Sovereign spends their strength on dubious activities, and don't recognize a bed as a place for rest.

I'd also think something like Porphyria or The Noble's Disease would be a historical take on it.

Just in case it hasn't been decided already.

I concur with this idea as well. How about "Magic Seep," "Cursed Drain," or "Fatigue of the Attuned?"

Of course, if you don't want the magic connotation, "Fatigue," "Fervor Drain" or "Apathy" would work, too.

"Royal Bleeder" - with reference to Queen Victoria's genetic predisposition to haemophilia

- Sovereign weakness that reduces Constitution by 3 and only allows the unit to heal 1hp/turn

Tainted, Weakling, Leper

Fleeting / Withered / Withering / Diseased / Sickly / Exhausted / Weakened - Sovereign weakness that reduces Constitution by 3 and only allows the unit to heal 1hp/turn

EDIT: I also like the idea of magical names for some conditions, but if those are used there needs to be a delicate balance to make all condition names fit together.