Devonrex — The Tinkerers’ Guild

Leader: Archengineer Rexal von Catticus
Government: Technocratic council of Guild Masters
Population: ≈ 9 million
Religion: The Mechanum — creation as worship; innovation the highest form of prayer

Economy / Trade:

• Exports: instruments, clockwork devices, metal works, architectural blueprints.

• Imports: coal, ore, and rare crystals.

Military:
~80 000 engineer-soldiers; small but equipped with advanced mechanical contraptions.

Elite Sector: The Cogclaw Corps — armored infantry using gear-driven exosuits and flamethrowers crafted in the Guild Forges.

Oracles:
The Predictors of Steam — inventors who analyze patterns of smoke from engines, believing the future can be read in its whirls.

Myths & Legends:
Their most famous myth is of The Nullpurr, a machine-beast built to enforce contracts but which devoured its makers and escaped into the underworks. Some claim to hear its mechanical purr beneath Gearspire during thunder.

International Reputation:
Brilliant and eccentric; admired for innovation, feared for unpredictability.

Organized Crime:
Black-market engineers sell forbidden devices; the Guild looks away if profits flow home.

Anti-Crime:
The Iron Regulators — a quasi-police guild that repossesses stolen technology with lethal efficiency.

Population Philosophy:
“Progress justifies the spark.” Perfection through experimentation.

Foreign Policy:
Trades knowledge for resources; aligns briefly with whoever funds research.

Allies / Enemies / Neutral:
Friendly to Siamia and Purrinia; distrustful of Utilitae’s rigidity.

Intelligence:
The Guild Archivists maintain a record of every innovation made in Clowdria, sometimes before the inventor finishes it.