Hullo, it's the Rite of Consumption question asking guy again. This time, it's about the Broken Lords and the Family, as well as how they are formed.

a) How are new Broken Lords formed? If Dust is nanomachines, I imagine it's akin to magically programming a new consciousness. Also, could a being have their consciousness transferred into a Broken Lord chassis? It should be feasible; the first Broken Lords came from somewhere after all. Are Lords made for specific tasks, or created and then raised as if they were still the Knights of the Amber Plains? Subquestion: my character also has some experience with the animating of new broken lord golems, such as citizens and the Ryder mounts. Is there any sort of impact that nonsentience has on the creation rite?

b) Does the Broken Lord society still contain the family unit? There are presumably some really Old Broken Lords that come from the start of the Curse who had flesh-and-blood parents; what about new ones that are created from dust? I recall the Martin guy in the main quest being part of the Suluzzo family; would that be analogous to more of a guild that Broken Lords can join/serve for?

no idea i always thought that they have a large collection of "souls" from when they turned into the broken form.

these souls were awake at some point but had to be de activated to preserve the rest of the faction and you just need dust to reactivate them.



but they probably don't have children it just a giant collection of undead warrior knights.

Based on this: http://forums.amplitude-studios.com/content.php?537-EL-Endless-Archives-Broken-Lords-Facts-Concepts



I've reached the interpretation that Broken Lords take the "soul" off victims to animate armours. In-game, this is reflected by "buying" population with dust. As such, the Broken Lords do not procreate directly, but rather are vampiric in their reproduction system.



However, it seems that noble houses and families have survived the transformation and still exist during the game. So the way I see it, the old families represent the aristocratic elites and core of Broken Lord society, which propagates itself by "vampirizing" other peoples and subjugating them in a second-class citizen type of arrangement.



Presumably, peoples from minor factions are left intact (though are slowly leeched), and might be treated as 3rd class citizens.

It seems also though that they could just take a big ol' lump of Dust and throw it at a pile of armor, couldn't they? Granted, that depends on what percentage of the BL population is actual Broken Lords (which I just assumed to be 100%), as lacking living subjects would require Dust to be processed from the environment for food anyways.

KnightofPhoenix wrote:
Based on this: http://forums.amplitude-studios.com/content.php?537-EL-Endless-Archives-Broken-Lords-Facts-Concepts



I've reached the interpretation that Broken Lords take the "soul" off victims to animate armours. In-game, this is reflected by "buying" population with dust. As such, the Broken Lords do not procreate directly, but rather are vampiric in their reproduction system.

Exactly, that's how they are designed. They use Dust as a medium to make the armor react to the commands of their minds/souls/spirits.

I was always fascinated by "undead economy" in fantasy 4x games.



It is either:

1) They are just humans with that use undead in army/labor -> normal economy with slight bias to mana/something

2) It's actual undead society with its own economic model



Case 2 is more unique, but I'm always wondering what happens with conquered population that case...

Slowhands wrote:
Exactly, that's how they are designed. They use Dust as a medium to make the armor react to the commands of their minds/souls/spirits.

so new Broken Lords are 'born' fully functional. I guess it would go something like robots creating new robots?

zukenft wrote:
so new Broken Lords are 'born' fully functional. I guess it would go something like robots creating new robots?

Something like that, but with more magic and metalwork :)



A new Broken Lord requires the armor as well as the spirit and Dust, and the armor is Dust-dependent and not easy to replicate.