Iron Bastion
Solstice Empire
Pronouns she/her Age 36 Likes Reinforced steel, Defensive lines
Base stats
Level 1 base, and the Level 60 projection. Stats grow ~10% of base per level (HP/ATK/DEF); Speed does not scale with level, so a fast hero stays fast relative to the field all game.
Element matchups
Fire heroes resolve their type advantage like this:
Advantage is ×1.30, disadvantage ×0.75. See the full type chart →
Signature abilities
Detailed ability breakdowns
These signature abilities now fire in battle with their own damage and cooldowns — a bigger skill or ultimate hits harder, and the two healers restore HP instead of striking. Still on the way here on the site: the full per-ability breakdown (exact multipliers and effects), plus deeper mechanics like status effects and multi-target hits.
Lore
The Iron Bastion is the muster-roll designation for the Solstice Empire's heavy-shield specialists, a class drawn historically from miner-conscript intake on the grounds that the work-form is the same — plant, hold, do not move until the cycle is complete. The current named-bearer of the Iron Bastion title in the southern campaign is Sergeant Kella Dorn, age thirty-six, third-generation miner-conscript family, fourteen years on the line. The Empire's muster-clerks consider her the longest-serving Iron Bastion in the southern theater and have tabled three retirement-eligibility reviews on the grounds that the line cannot afford the gap.
Her combat-grant is the shield-wall plant — reinforced-steel formation with three planted Iron Bastions and four flanking heavy-lancers, the formation an Empire field-officer can call by raising a single fingered signal across the line. The Bastion's response to the signal is to plant the shield, brace the lower-back stance, and not move until the field-officer cancels the signal or the Bastion is killed. Kella has been planted for a measured one hour and forty minutes on a single signal — the southern theater's muster-clerks have the chronometer record and have not commented on it. The signal-cancel was issued because the engagement closed, not because the line shifted; the line did not shift.
She stands picket on the imperial line under both General Thalia Crowe's (char_thalia_crowe) southern-army authority and the Royal Guard wedge under Olin Verres (char_royal_guard) when the formations are co-deployed. She and Olin have a quiet professional understanding that does not require words; they have stood the same line for three engagements and have not exchanged more than two sentences across all three. Olin has indicated to his wedge that this is the form of acknowledgment the Iron Bastion class prefers, and the wedge has not asked further. Kella has not commented; her silence has been read by Olin's wedge as confirmation, which it may or may not be.
Bond stories
- An Hour and Forty Minutes Planted · unlocks at bond Lv 10
- Two Sentences in Three Engagements · unlocks at bond Lv 25