Mid-game wall, sustained force, civic endurance
Drath
The Iron Paladin
Recovered Profile
Less like a soldier, more like a fortification that learned to keep walking.
Drath is the party's center of gravity: patient, repaired, and impossible to hurry into melodrama.
Witness line
"The wall needed to hold. So I held it."
Record
His armor records every repair, weld, and compromise made after the world lost the luxury of pristine metal.
At the Bone Citadel, he held a gate for eleven hours because the alternative was to let seven hundred civilians die.
He resists titles, but the party orbits him whenever the climb turns from grim to impossible.
Battle role
Measured strikes from a maul called The Argument. Weight, timing, and refusal do the heavy lifting.
Bonds and tensions
Lyra
She trusts him completely, which says more about him than any military commendation could.
Seraph
Both carry institutional memory, but only Drath makes it feel habitable.