Clan Ironset

## Description:

Clan Ironset is a Dwarven Clan found on all continents of the world, including the Continent of Pilbo, that is responsible for safeguarding the surface world from all forms of subterranean evil. Together along with the other Dwarven clans, Clan Ironset works its divine mission to protect the rest of the world.

Public knowledge of Clan Ironset is very limited, as requested by Clan Ironset themselves. They believe that their secrecy aids them in their ultimate goal of defense, and as such the JPCU has actively taken steps to aid and hide Clan Ironset's existence from the rest of the world.

### Organization:

#### Population: Unknown

Founded in Unknown

Like most other Dwarven Clans, Clan Ironset is ruled by a High King, who is a member of the Clan's ruling family; in Clan Ironset's case, the Ironset family has maintained leadership over the Clan for the Clan's entire existence. The Clan's High King rules from the Clan's capital city, which he/she also directly controls. The other cities in a Clan's territory are ruled by a King, who may or may not be a member of the Clan's namesake family. Lesser nobility control smaller towns and regions, all paying homage and tithes to the local King, who in turn pays the High King.

Clan Ironset is believed fo be of medium size, and, unlike some of the other Dwarven Clans, does not recruit from other races. Instead, the population of Clan Ironset is maintained naturally or by magical means. Clan Ironset is not expansionist, and prefers to remain in their Strongholds whenever possible.

Clan Ironset's singular mission is to defend the world from the evils buried beneath the Earth, including the forces of the Drow and others from the Abandoned Abyss, and the alienlike creatures from the Hollow Earth and Concave Earth. The members of Clan Ironset work their entire lives to further this single goal and benefit the Clan as a whole, seeing their mission as divinely sponsored.

The JPCU and Clan Ironset maintain excellent relations with one another, and are frequently allies with one another in the battle against the forces of evil that seek to bring ruin to the world.

### Equipment:

Clan Ironset maintains a lower average level of technology than other Dwarven Clans, particularly lower than Clan Greyforged. This is a result of Clan Ironset's strict adherence to the Faith of Iron, as well as the Clan's focus on magic as a means of beating their foes, an overwhelming majority of whom are magical in some sense or another. Clan Ironset does make use of Clockwork equipment and robots when necessary. For civilians of Clan Ironset, they maintain a somewhat modernized lifestyle, with some of the more advanced technological luxuries common to all Dwarven regions (electricity, running water, etc.).

Magically, Clan Ironset is beyond the capabilities of the likes of Clan Greyforged. Clan Ironset wields an incredible mastery over smithing, construction, golem-making, and magic in general, most of which is often attributed to their ancestral adherence to the Faith of Iron. Their cities and fortresses are built through geomancy and magic, their weapons and armor are infused with magic, their vehicles and machines are fueled by magic or electricity, and their own bodies are often covered in magic runic tattoos or scars.

Clan Ironset is a Clan of master defensive strategists who are most well known for their undying courage and bravery, ability to defeat forces far larger than their own, and for building impenetrable forts and buildings that can withstand untold decades of constant siege and warfare without buckling or weakening at all.