Autoplate pilots are frontline melee combatants whose prowess is supplemented by the fantastic abilities of their eponymous suits of armor. Driven (by ambition, by pride, by honor, even by love) to exceed the known limits of enchantment, transmutation, and artifice in the field of martial technology, every pilot has managed to design and construct an autoplate, a magical device superficially similar to armor but combining powerful abilities of protection, destruction, and utility within a compact mechanical frame.