Each clan fields a blade-bearer. These portraits are placeholders until the finished art is ready.
Clan of the Cinder Court
Long range
Bound by an oath of cinders, Ashwarden fighters favour the patient cut. They stretch a rival thin across the long range, then strike when the forge-heat of the arena favours smoldering steel. Their courts believe a vow kept late is still a vow — if the blade arrives with purpose.
Clan of the Drowned Courts
Medium range
Sworn to currents and cutting foam, Tidebinder thrives in the middle distance — neither overcommitted nor withdrawn. Their banners rise from drowned halls where oaths are sealed in salt. In the tournament they turn the flow of a duel the way a tide turns a harbour: quiet, then absolute.
Clan of the Iron Marches
Short range
Ironvow closes the gap and ends arguments quickly. When the oath is short, the steel must be certain. Their marches produce duelists who treat broken promises as public shame — and a crushing advance as the only apology worth giving.
Clan of the Sky-Forge
Any range
Stormglass keepers temper vows in lightning-lit forges above the cloudline. Their chronicle is younger than ash and iron, but no softer: every Ender who rises under a stormglass banner is expected to hold the sky-law — that a promise spoken in clear weather must still stand when the gale comes.