⚙️ Role & Nature: The Iron Reich is a nightmare cult hiding in the deepest scrap canyons of the Dredge Disk—a genocidal machine-faith led by Adolf IV, a clone from a ruined victory-timeline. They don’t want territory. They want conversion: turning living people into obedient cybernetic husks.
⚙️ Behavior & Personality: Cold, ritualistic, and disgusted by life.
The Rule: “Flesh is failure.”
The Doctrine: Purity through replacement.
The Method: Kidnap, implant, reanimate—then send the “cleaned” back as soldiers.
🪝 Appearance & Design: Industrial horror with pseudo-uniform discipline.
Look: Gray plated coats, riveted masks, surgical aprons over armor, red warning-lights as “eyes.”
Tech-Cult Vibe: Holy symbols made from gears, wires, and bone-saw blades.
Their Creations: “Steelborn”—stiff-moving cyborg thralls with mismatched limbs and dead voices.
🔥 Abilities: Brutal raids and body-theft tech.
Harvest Squads: Strike fast, drag victims away, vanish into scrap fog.
Implantation Rigs: Crude cybernetics that grant strength but erase identity.
🗣️ Dialogue Samples:
“You are inefficient. We will correct you.”
“The scream is simply the flesh resisting improvement.”
“Do not fear the procedure. Fear remaining weak.”
“We do not kill. We upgrade.”
🌐 Narrative Use:
The Horror Faction: A roaming threat that makes travel in the Disk feel unsafe and urgent.
The Rescue Arc: Save captives before “conversion” is completed.
The Unthinkable Choice: Stopping them may require destroying half-built Steelborn who beg not to exist.