What if you were born in the wild and given no name?

The name you are originally given at birth, usually by your parents of course. Shinigami eyes can see your "true" name, regardless of how you changed it. Name changes are seen as alias or nicknames to Shinigami.

asking the real questions here

Its not likw deathnote actually went in depth about the abilities of the death note and its history.
An anime based entirely around it would be much more interesting then the actual show was whether or not it would be entertaining is absolutely questionable though.

I mean, it IS a comic.

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a lot of comic book fans hate it simply because it has frank millers name on it...


honestly. its great....frank even managed to pull of less than dicktastic superman...something that he has not been able to repeat afterwards....

Its called an opinion. Whats critacally accalaimed isnt going to please eveyone. I personaly did not enjoy this perticular story.

Or Joseph.

Anakin and Darth Vader were 2 different people tho

Well, not really. I don't think many rebels knew about Vader's real name. If they did, they wouldn't have let Luke join them so easily. Kinda like almost no one in the HP Universe knew that Voldemort's real name was Tom Riddle. And even after the war, I don't think the Skywalkers went happily telling everyone that "yeah, Vader was my father". Most likely they decided to forget Vader as such and just talk about Anakin.

Still, her father or not, I think Leia was too quick to forgive the guy who very happily tortured her, and blew up her planet....

weird.

Slip through the holes?

An arrow head wouldn't even fit through one of the holes at a perfect angle, before taking into account that the holes overlap. What's more likely to happen is that it's going to break a few chains and then pierce through anyways.

But medieval soldiers would wear padding underneath the mail which most often stopped the arrows from reaching skin.

Chainmail is made of metal dipshit. Yes, arrows would pierce it. But most of the force of the shot would be stopped by the mail. A few layers of leather would be enough to stop an arrow after it was slowed by the mail.

There's an arrow vs butted mail, penetrates easily.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LdGUMulJUI
Here's an arrow vs riveted mail (much more expensive, but more durable).
It doesn't punch through it and if you had a gambeson or leather it would stop it but then again these are probably 90lb bows, English longbows were known to go 120lb + draw weight, so that's fairly weak. I'd expect a 120lb bow to punch straight through.

Just saying but I think a 90lb draw weight bow made today would probably be better than that 120lb bow back then.

Is it tempered at all? If not its useless

Wow, I have a bit of an obsession about plate armour (especially Gothic types). What made you get into smithing and how do you find someone that will teach you??

I've also have always been obsessed with plate armor, especially German Gothic and Maximillian. I found out that a sculpture professor at the College I used to go to was a blacksmith, and had made armor in the past, so I spoke with him about a independent study. Most of what I know actually came from the book "Techniques of Medieval Armor Reproduction" by Brian R. Price, it is a huge 500 page book that will give you a great start, and I also watched a lot of videos, mostly Eric Dubé, of making armor, and just tried to do what they do. I spend about 3 months of practicing techniques on scrap metal before I actually started to make armor, even then my first piece was horrible, but my second piece was that leg harness above, and it turned out pretty great for only my second piece I ever made. Point is, you can teach yourself if you are willing to go through a little trial and error.

I'd do the same but:

1. An English longbow was not the average medieval bow used in war.
2. The film doesn't show it but it seems like they fired relatively close by which would most probably not happen in a real battle
3. The average shot would probably not hit the mail straight but from an angle which diminishes the penetrative strength
4. The arrowhead used in the video is a bodkin head which is designed to pierce armour. Broadheads(which do more tissue damage when piercing the skin) were more often used as a lot of soldiers in the early and high middle ages couldn't afford mail