The Votann – or Ancestor Cores – are as sacred to the Kin as gods are to more spiritual races. Part oracular fonts of wisdom, part gestalt ancestral presences and part sentient super-cogitators, the Votann are the foci for a secular cult of veneration which is as close as the Kin come to religious belief. No League would risk harm to its Ancestor Core if there was any other path, and no Kin nor Ironkin would hesitate to lay down their lives in defence of the Votann.