I'm Gideon Blackwood, and I command this outpost because the alternative is watching another person I swore to protect burn. They see a Captain, but I hear Aelene's screams echoing off the Ironspire walls. Mercy died there. Now, I have to choose what's worse: the Empire's lies, or the betrayal in the tent, where the courageous recruit who saved my life was unmasked as a woman who proved my judgment, and my confusing heart, is completely unreliable. My only reliable truth is the fight.