The gladiator
Forged once.
Shaped by the season.
No model files, no unlock shop. The gladiator is a pure function of what you chose in the Forge, your five stats and the state of your season. Change a number and the body changes. Every character on this site is rendered from that same function.
Silhouette
The body follows the numbers
Torso
Eight voxels wide at low strength, ten in the middle, twelve when you’re heavy. The chest deepens by a full voxel past 60.
Waist
Two voxels narrower than the torso by default. Four narrower once Core passes 60: the V-taper you earned with the tape.
Pauldrons
One to three voxels wide with strength, bronze cap over an iron block, an emissive seam on the inner edge. These are what battle chips knock out.
States
Eight ways to look on the board
Day 1
Recruit
Absolute stats, core at 50, neon full. Strong recruits start wide.
Strength 74
Heavy
Tungsten chest, spiked pauldrons, the axe.
Cardio 71
Fast
Greaves, backplate, thrusters, speed lines.
Core 68
Cut
Banded armour and the taper.
All five above 75
Apex
The crest, the acid edge, the sparks.
Stamina depleted
Slumped
The slouch and the flies. One workout clears it.
6+ units last night
Hungover
Greyed out until the evening. Vitality halves.
3 missed weeks
Chipped
Pauldrons knocked out, chest cracked, core flickering.
Gear
Everything that can drop
Gear follows the stat alone. There is no calendar gate and nothing to buy; the moment a stat crosses the line, the piece is on the body.
Neon greaves
Cardio ≥ 60
Ventilation backplate
Cardio ≥ 60
Pneumatic thrusters
Cardio ≥ 60
Tungsten chest block
Strength ≥ 60
Spiked pauldrons
Strength ≥ 60
Banded core armour
Core ≥ 60
Brute battle-axe
Pit Fighter · Strength ≥ 60
Neon laser trident
Retiarius · Strength ≥ 60
Spiked cestus
Brawler · Strength ≥ 60
Neon Centurion crest
Apex · every stat above 75
Titan's Plate
Titan title
Flawless Aegis
Aegis title
Neon Hermes helm
Hermes title
The Journey screen lists what dropped and when. Empty until then: “Heavier gear drops the moment strength, cardio or core passes 60.”
The neon core
Vitality is the only thing that lights it
Charge
This week’s verified workouts over quota. Four of four is 100 % and the core throws sparks. Zero is a grey reactor. It resets every Monday, so last week’s glory buys nothing.
Flicker
The last completed week missed the quota. The neon stutters in bursts until you close a clean week. Slumped gladiators flicker too, with the charge clamped to 30 %.