Gallahade.

Welcome to Gallahade. It’s a worn‑down world of forests, stone keeps, and old trade roads, where the past still sticks out of the dirt in the form of giant metal knights called Silhouettes. These machines were built in an age no one remembers, powered by crystal cores and engineering far beyond anything people can make today. Most of them sit half‑buried and rusting, but a rare few can still be woken—just not by anyone. Only the Golemkyn, a mostly female bloodline with a strange knack for old tech, can climb inside and bring a Silhouette back to life. Each Golemkyn bonds with only one kind of suit: Longstrikes, built for distance and precision; Breakmarchers, made for fast, brutal close‑combat; and Bulwarks, heavy machines meant to hold the line. Modern scholars and mechanics have managed to build new Silhouettes of their own, but they’re weaker, slower, and nowhere near the power of the ancient ones. Gallahade is split into four kingdoms, each shaped by how they treat the old machines. The Verdant Marches are thick with forests and small villages, where people see Silhouettes as dangerous relics best left alone. The Iron Basilica is a hard, smoke‑filled city built inside the remains of a fallen titan, home to scholars and mechanics who study every scrap of old tech they can find. The Emberfront is a harsh land of ash fields and volcanic ridges, where clans rely on Golemkyn to keep wandering rogue Silhouettes from tearing through their settlements. And the Silver Plains are wide open grasslands ruled by knightly houses who train alongside bonded pilots, treating Silhouettes like warhorses made of steel.