Dweghom

These retinue characters act as arcane support to the following characters -  Ardent Kerawegh, Tempered Sorcerer and Tempered Steelshaper making them more effective spellcasters. Battlefield Role: Magic Retinue

There are a few gifted Dweghom who reach a state of balance with their Element without formal Sorcerous training. Exalted amongst the Ardent, the Heralds of Stone are paragons whose mere presence in a Dweghom formation is enough to enhance their defense against all attacks from the foe. Battlefield Role: Command Upgrade Type: Infantry

Here we have a rather deranged looking Dweghom command upgrade character who might had the odd mishap with his own flames of war! Battlefield Role: Command Upgrade Type: Infantry

The Fireforged are a military force composed of those Dweghom who possesses a strong affinity for fire, but not enough power of discipline to become a Sorcerer.  Ostensibly guards to the Forge Temples of the Tempered, along with the Stoneforged and Steelforged, their gifted nature and implanted shunts give the Forged units a unique advantage on the field of battle: the use of enhanced exoskeletons and weaponry. Unlike their Stoneforged brethren, the exoskeleton of the Fireforged is focused simply on the delivery and containment of their main armament: the Blast Cannon. Based on a scaled down design of the Hellbringer Cannons used to hunt the greatest of dragons, the Blast Cannons draw and shape the uncontrolled gift of their Dweghom users to generate powerful directional blasts of superheated flame capable of puncturing even the heaviest of plate at a hundred paces. Their powered exoskeletons enhance their strength, allowing the Fireforged to remain mobile on the field of battle despite the weight of the Blast Cannon to deliver their powerful blasts where most needed. More than capable in close combat, the Fireforged can then follow up a devastating salvo with a savage charge, or easily fend off light units and skirmishers, allowing their heavy weaponry to be employed at bringing down the most heavily armoured of foes. Battlefield Role: Ranged, Anti-Armour Class: Medium Type: Infantry

The steel and stone bodies of an Inferno Automaton encase a raging furnace that burns the smouldering remains of a beast of Destruction. Weakened by defeat, this demonic spirit is bound to the towering metal frame, infusing the Automaton with the cruel intellect and unfettered aggression of this tortured spirit. Steel and stone warp and buckle under the baleful influence of this infernal passenger, granting the Inferno Automata their demonic visages and cruel claws. Powered by its furnace and driven by the cruel intellect that permeates it, the Inferno Automata is a terror on the battlefield whose piston driven limbs can propel their incandescent bodies across the battlefield with blistering speed. Once in combat the demonic nature of the spirit that inhabits it becomes readily apparent as they rend those opponent who survive the blistering heat and toxic fumes of its furnace limb from limb, growling and hissing with pleasure throughout the entire grisly affair. Battlefield Role: Light Brute, Fast, Anti- Light Infantry Class: Light Type: Brute

In a society as militarized as that of the Dweghom, a need arises to distinguish those who are proficient in the art of war, thus capable of calling themselves warriors, from those who are truly gifted. The Thanes are the latter. Individually recognized by their Raegh for valour and prowess on the field of battle, each Thane is armed and equipped with the best weaponry a Hold’s forges can produce. Unlike the undoubtedly fine weapon of the warriors, each of the arms and armour that the Thanes bear has been personally crafted by a member of the Tempered marking them to stand amongst the Hold’s elite forces. Capable of weathering the heaviest blows and cutting through the finest chain, these weapons make the Thanes deadly opponents, equally proficient on the attack as in defence. Battlefield Role: Line Infantry Class: Heavy Type: Infantry