Iron Wake

When softer hands failed against the world's cruelty, Umbra taught that strength is not born once, but hammered into being again and again.

Impact was not a cost to be feared, but the law by which weakness was driven out and resolve made real.

Thus the hardened were taught to strike, endure, and strike again, until force itself became memory written into flesh and iron.

For power belongs not to the untouched, but to the one who survives the blow and returns it greater. - Codex Umbra