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[[File:Warmachine Prime.jpg|frame|[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|The Iron Lich (Asphyxious) and the Butcher of Khardov (Orsus Zoktavir)]] duke it out alongside their titular warmachines.]]

 

 

 

The term "Iron Kingdoms" specifically refers to a collection of human nations in the western portion of the continent of ''Immoren'' on a planet known as ''Caen''. In the past, Western Immoren used to be a fairly typical fantasy setting, where warriors used swords and bows, wizards cast spells, and parties of human, dwarven, and (occasionally) elven adventurers would wander the land, beating up goblins, ogres (called ogrun in Immoren), trolls, and other monsters in order to take their stuff. All that changed when [[The Empire|the Orgoth]] invaded from across the western ocean. A race of humans whose [[Black Magic|immensely powerful sorcery]] put Immoren magic to shame, the Orgoth easily conquered the squabbling human city-states of Immoren and ruled the land as unbeatable overlords for the better part of four hundred years. No longer able to rely on standard swords and sorcery, Immoren freedom fighters were forced to develop new technologies in order to counter the Orgoth's immense magical advantage—technologies such as steam engines, gunpowder, and [[Humongous Mecha|magic steam-powered robots]] that make use of both. The rebellion also forced the humans of Immoren to [[The Alliance|put aside their old racial grudges]], and goblins, ogrun, and trollkin (the most intelligent and civilized of the trolls) stood side-by-side with humans against the Orgoth invaders. After another two hundred years of fighting, the inhabitants of Immoren finally managed to drive the Orgoth from their shores. In order to prevent their lands descending into chaos once more, the human rulers of Immoren met in the city of Corvis and drew up a series of treaties that officially divided their lands into the titular Iron Kingdoms:

 

A Warmachine video game is in the works, with gameplay footage unveiled at Gen Con 2010, with an actual trailer shown at E3 2011 (which can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHG6BhqZY74&feature=related here]). The Gameplay Footage from 2010 can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7K5lfIoBfQ here] (though if anyone can find a better-quality version of the footage, it would be greatly appreciated).

 

* [[Abusive Precursors]]: The Orgoth check all the boxes, and then some. Their [[0% Approval Rating|oppressive reign]] on Western Immoren had to be ended by a coalition of the occupied nations, who hate each other's guts. Their mastery of [[The Dark Arts]] was such that they could teach the [[Evil Sorcerer|Lich Lords of Cryx]] a thing or two about [[Black Magic]].

** And in fact Cryx learned a lot about the Dark arts form studying them.

* [[Badass Beard]]: Harkevich's beard reached meme status on the forums before he was released

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Pretty much everyone. The d20 rules specifically encourage this, by giving reinforced and armored greatcoats Damage Reduction (something that's otherwise very hard to get without magic) and allowing their protective benefits to stack with light armor; as a result, the combination of armored greatcoat and chain shirt is one of the most effective, and therefore most popular, non-magical armor choices in the game.

* [[Bald of Awesome]]:

** The Butcher of Khardov. Able to scrap a Warjack with relative ease. Tougher than most non-Khador 'Jacks. He got his name by slaughtering the entire militia of the village of Boarsgate, [[Bald of Evil|as well as the troops he brought with him.]] By the time he was finished, the rats had to jump from body to body to avoid drowning in the blood.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Orsus Zoktavir is Berserk as it is, but if he ever finds out you hurt a woman, he will '''END''' you.

* [[BFG]]: The Commodore, a massive ship's cannon owned by Phinneas Shae. Capable of holing any ship of the line, it is wheeled onto shore by sheer man-power, and the force of its blasts can send warjacks flying yards back at extreme ranges... and then there are its [[Oh Crap|other]] ammo types. Add to this that a man was executed by being tied to the barrel of the cannon and broken from the sheer force of the cannon's repeated fire and that, except for his legs, his skeleton still hangs from the barrel, and...

** The [http://privateerpress.com/files/products/OgrunAssaultCorps.png Ogrun Assault Corps]{{Dead link}}.

** Kara Sloan's [https://web.archive.org/web/20101218175005/http://privateerpress.com/files/products/Captain-Sloan.png Spitfire].

** Absylonia, so very, very much. She even has a spell called Playing God that warps and twists the beasts under her command. Also she has Carnivore, a spell which lets any model or group of troops get a ''lot'' better at hitting living models. If they happen to kill something, they ''eat'' it. They [[Horror Hunger|eat it so hard]] they eat [[Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious|its soul,]] but [[Bizarre Alien Biology|Absylonia's stomach gets full.]]

*** The Nephilim war beasts as well, they're not blood spawn like other Legion beasts, they're brithed by Nyss women.

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Borka Kegslayer. Captain Bartolo "Broadsides Bart" Montador.

* [[Bond Creatures]]: Warbeasts and warjacks.

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Pre-Epic Vlad, most Skorne swordsmen and women (including Makeda), many warjacks, and Trollkin Champions, among others.

* [[Egomaniac Hunter]]: Alten Ashley is the most famous and skillful monster hunter to ever walk Western Immoren. A fact he is quite plainly aware of and eager to tell anyone he meets.

* [[Elves vs. Dwarves]]: Fairly common amongst the various factions, most explicitly between the steampunk-inspired WARMACHINE factions and the Primal Powers of HORDES. Amusingly enough, averted by the setting's ''actual'' elves and dwarves: the elves hate everyone, while the dwarves don't feel particularly strongly one way or the other.

* [[Epic Flail]]:

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Khador is unapologetically the Immoren equivalent of [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|Russia and Eastern Europe]], Cygnarans are basically Americans with British accents, Llael is France, Idrians (the original inhabitants of the lands south of Cygnar, before the Protectorate was formed there) are Middle Easterners, the Trollbloods are Celtic, the Skorne are Japanese (when it comes to their armor, iconography and language) with a few signs of Persian Empire, and the Gatormen are stereotypically Louisianian (complete with [[Ragin Cajun|Cajun accents]] and [[Hollywood Voodoo|voodoo priests]]).

* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: The Retribution's House Vyre myrmidons.

** He's so bad even the ''other'' Skorne hate him.

* [[Fearless Undead]]: A model with the undead special rule can never flee due to other models with the Terror/Abomination special rule or due to taking heavy casualties.

* [[Fortune Teller]]: Calandra Truthsayer.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: Strangely this is a trait developed by a Warjack Rociante of all things.

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Prolific throughout the setting, with amateurs usually referred to as "bodgers" and experts referred to as "mechaniks." Notable GGs include E. Dominic Darius, Sebastian Nemo, Dirty Meg, Thor Stienhammer and Arian Strangewayes.

** Add magic and you've got "Arcane Mechaniks," which make-up the majority of Mercenary Warcasters, Master Necrotech Mortenebra, E. Dominic Darius, and several others.

* [[Gatling Good]]: The Cygnaran chaingun, used by Trencher infantry as a support weapon and by the Sentinel warjack as its primary armament.

* [[Gentle Giant]]: Harkevich's beard and sheer bulk is intimidating, but he is a [[Papa Wolf]] to his men and the civilians that he is protecting. Truly fitting of the title "Iron Wolf"

* [[Ghost Pirate]]: The Cryxian Revenants. Complete with their own [[Ghost Ship]]s.

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