Acier

Overview Curious inventors and hardened warriors, Acier are obsessed with Pre-Fall technology – and their manifestation is all about interfacing with what they find. They can create new devices and mechanical beings, augment weaponry and armour and even unlock ancient tombs and speak to machines. Perhaps most importantly of all, they can pilot the mighty exoskeletons – armoured spacesuits that have survived for millennia. These suits can be repaired in the field and augmented with various abilities.

They run on Spirits of the Wire – sentient sparks that fix broken circuits and enhance their suit’s Residual AI. The more Spirits a suit has, the stronger it is… but beware, because if a critical mass is reached the suit may no longer be content with the intellectual drudgery of servitude.

Personality

Acier are generally aloof and secretive, as not many understand what it is like to hear whispers from the past and to interface with inanimate beings. Supplies and access to Pre-Fall tech is generally quite limited as well, and prior experiences with things going missing/being accidentally destroyed lead most Acier to guard their treasures - and selves - quite closely.

Commoners

Tinkerers, mechanics, curious inventors of all kinds will have a touch of Acier in their blood. Huts an d cottages will be augmented with small mechanical conveniences, and it would not be surprising to find an ancient mechanical bull trundling through a field, being fed rare oils to keep it running. Nobility

As Nobility, Acier amass huge workshops of relics, devices, trinkets and contraptions left from Old Mankind's reign. Their settlements, castles and manors are constantly evolving experiments, full of people bustling around to facilitate whichever project is obsessing the Acier this month.

Dangers

Despite social exclusion and obsession, Acier are vulnerable to genetic diseases that slowly replace their body parts with mechanical ones in response to damage. This can lead a particularly combat-heavy Acier to transforming almost entirely into a machine, eventually freezing solid as the metal takes over their bodies and minds.

Abilities