'Well-crafted straight sword with an illustrious design, wielded by regulars of a lord's army. Though blackened and damaged by years of use, it appears to have otherwise been kept in a serviceable condition, despite the soldiers having long since lost their minds.' The Lordsworn are the ordinary soldiers of the Lands Between: those who took the lord's oath and went to war as Marika's general infantry. They are not knights, they have no glintstone, no mounts, no privileged training. They are sword-and-shield regulars who carried the demigods' standards across the battlefields of the Shattering, and whom the canon names only in reference to their armour, never as individuals. Their commonplace Lordsworn's Greatsword is one of the first weapons a Tarnished picks up.

'Wooden tower shield. Lightweight for a greatshield and easy to handle. Commonly used in the Shattering. Greatshields boast high damage negation and guard capacity, making enemy attacks easy to repel.' The Shattering's toll fell almost entirely on the Lordsworn. Demigods do not die; they only break apart. Knights die rarely, with names. The Lordsworn lost their minds in lines, six abreast, behind a tower shield. The Bell-Bearings sold by the Twin Maiden Husks include their bolts and shields because so many were left on so many fields that the residue is itself an economy. The Tarnished benefits, in armour and currency, from the ruin of the Shattering. The Lordsworn's ghosts, where they appear as Spirit Ashes, fight defensively still: a tower shield up, a quiet voice waiting for a command from a captain who never returned from the same battle.