>>5920665You only ever see those huge gardbrace pauldron things on jousting armour. They restrict your vision too much to wear them in combat so they were only ever used in jousting tourneys.
Jousting armour gave rise to the myth that armoured knights were cumbersome and immobile. Fighting armour was much lighter and much more flexible.
And "mettle" is the correct term. It means resilience or fortitude. That wallpaper as written sounds stupid.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/mettle 