Guts & Gears takes a look at the men, machines, and monsters of the Iron

Kingdoms. Read about what it takes to be a warrior or warbeast with one of the
many factions or look into the mechanikal workings of hulking warjacks and
what it takes to get these multi-ton constructs to dominate the battlefield.

By Simon Berman
Art by Carlos Cabrera,
Eric Deschamps,
& Andrea Uderzo

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Excerpts from the personal journals of Dr. Arkadius, former Professor me all it can. To continue my work I require solitude without
of Zoology, Ceryl University, Doctor of Applied Mechanikal Studies, interruption. Without judgment.
Corvis University
Malleus 3rd, Goloven 600 A.R. – My efforts to equip this
Donard 5th, Rowen 599 A.R. – My colleagues are facility were well worth the cost in coin and, I am sad to say,
pitiful fools. The scope of my great labor is far beyond the spilled blood. Still, there is no questioning the quality of my
confines of their narrow vision. Their own experiments and laboratory. I fancy that I now possess the finest alchemical
philosophies suggest the rational course that I would follow, and mechanikal facility in all of the Thornwood! It is
but they are cowards who fear what they might learn should unfortunate the laborers who built this place could not be
they guess what I have begun to comprehend. Flesh and bone allowed to leave.
are governed by the same alchemical laws as all other matter,
It is here I hope to advance my experiments a thousand fold,
what of it should I wish to test the limits of those laws; press
not merely alchemically altering the anatomy
the boundaries to their breaking point and beyond? After
of my subjects, but also
all, if flesh can be manipulated, it can be perfected. Life itself
restructuring
can be perfected beyond the blind choices the gods made in
remote antiquity!
The professors of Corvis are as ignorant as their
peers in Ceryl. They call my experiments
“blasphemous,” whine that I must
not “play the Creator.” But
if not myself, then who
shall? Our so-called
“civilization”
has given

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