Golganneth Spire — “The City Ascendant”

Once the jewel of the planet, Golganneth remains a towering labyrinth of sanctums, manufactoria, and corroded balconies stacked like prayer tiers. Its upper levels gleam with faded grandeur — brass-trimmed cathedra of the machine-faith — while its mid-levels thrum with the roar of forges and the desperate hymns of labor.

• Atmosphere: Gilded decay; half-functioning lighting; stained-glass servo-altars flicker with static.

• Rulers: The Synaxis, a council of techno-nobles and high augurs who rule through divine rhetoric and hereditary circuit-keys.

• Culture: The people of Golganneth see themselves as chosen — custodians of “divine function.” The poor in the lower levels pray to machines that no longer respond.

• Common Greeting: “Your circuits shine.”

• Caste System:

  • Augurs: priest-engineers who interpret machine omens.

  • Guilders: artisans, smelters, and forge-keepers.

  • Scav-Born: workers and serfs with no machine rights; viewed as “bio-waste.”