Titanplate

When lesser armor cracked beneath the world's cruelty, Umbra taught the strong to clothe themselves not in protection alone, but in permanence.

Steel that lives does not merely endure the strike; it remembers it, returns it, and grows more terrible for having borne it.

Thus the immovable were taught to stand as fortresses unto themselves, that every assault would break first upon their silence and feed the will within.

For the highest strength is not to escape the blow, but to make the blow regret its making. - Codex Umbra