Iron Aspirants - Presupported

Aspirant Ironbound: Mortals mad enough to join the Ironbound willingly and promising captives alike form the ranks of the Aspirant Ironbound. These poor wretches fight to earn the gift of transfiguration, or the release of death. Their bodies are enhanced with ironbound augments, swifter and tireless legs, arms that can carry heavier loads and land stronger blows, implanted mechanical eyes, or even their entire face carved off and replaced with an iron mask to interface with the forge’s combat overlay. Aspirants have developed a cutthroat warrior culture; the gift of ascension to the ranks of true iron is tantalizingly within their reach, so they seek great glory and deeds on the battlefield. Whilst not in combat, the Aspirants live and train in barracks quarters within the Forge-Ziggurats. There they tinker upon themselves under the tutelage of the Cindersmiths. Every Aspirant is considered a resource, failed aspirants are recycled into components, soul energy, or remade into Iron Scavengers; but the investment into the Aspirants is genuine; Transfigured Ironborn tutor Aspirants in their ways, teaching them engineering, architecture, the catechisms of the Eternal Flame, strategy, the scientific method, and the natural sciences, for each Aspirant may one day become a Transfigured themself and, despite mortal reckoning, a sense of academic camaraderie exists within the upper echelons of the Ironbound. The brilliance of Fer’agosh is infectious, promoting the Transfigured to compete in contests of invention; aspirants are an essential resource for the propagation of the Ironbound dominion.