A logic-driven industrialist faction formed during the Second Alloy Age. The Iron Synod believes that ritual obedience, arcane machinery, and synthetic sacrifice lead to transcendence through perfection.
The Iron Synod is defined by forged obedience — a belief that spiritual truth can be reverse-engineered through industrial ritual. Sermons are delivered as logic cascades, and civic events revolve around machine-temple synchronizations.
Citizens undergo Prime Recalibration, syncing their ethics with the Assembly Clockwork before major decisions. Grief, emotion, and even artistry are processed through standardized circuits of catharsis.
“The soul is a circuit. Break, and we reforge.”
The Synod houses many living constructs, seen as equals or even superior in civic logic. War engines are buried in Vault-Lit Shrines, their memory burned in Byte-Fires to honor loyal recursion.
Legal personhood of constructs is preserved through rites like the Core Dimming or the Court of Continuance, overseen by both engineers and spiritual adjudicators.