Pitch Priory

The Pitch Priory is the Profane province’s advanced works — a dripping black chapel whose presses steep every plate in pitch. It is the exact counterpart of the Pious Printworks: the same rung of the tech ladder, the same gate to the same futures, rendered in tar instead of white paper. Where a Pious army raises a Printworks, a Profane army raises a Priory, and either one satisfies anything that asks for the “advanced works” — including the Protege.

The Priory does two jobs at once:

• It holds the master plates that open the province’s advanced patterns for design at the Patternworks — the Prowler, the Plaguebearer, and the Proxie line all wait on a standing Priory.
• It prints directly: Proxies, Proxie Ploppers, Predators, and Personel Pods all come off its pitch-soaked presses. Note what that includes — the Profane air force and armored transport need no Port; the chapel prints them.

Its appetite matches its output. The Priory keeps a deep pitch buffer on site (a Predator pattern alone drinks a small lake of the stuff), so expect your Paper Pushers to wear a road to its door.

Strategy

The Pitch Priory is the hinge of every Profane build — the moment it stands, your army stops being Piercers and Poachers and starts being walking bombs, spreading plagues, and dragons. Time it like the Pious time their Printworks: after the Patternworks, before you need the answer it prints. Because so much of the province’s power funnels through this one building (patterns, air, transport, the whole Proxie economy), it is also your most attractive target after the Palace itself — fold it inside your defensive envelope, and consider a second once Predators are in production. Keep the pitch convoys flowing; a dry Priory is a very expensive chapel.