What is 'New Lord' in Iron Realms?

It is the realm's own name for a lord who has not chosen one. The Nth keep ever founded is called New Lord N — so New Lord 12 really is the twelfth keep raised in that realm. It is a placeholder, and the game invites you to replace it.

Can other players see your email in Iron Realms?

No. There is exactly one function that produces a public name and it cannot emit an email address. Names containing an '@' are refused when you set them and masked if an old record still holds one.

How do you change your name in Iron Realms?

Council → Your name in the realm, or the rename control on your Lord Profile. The change is immediate: your keep relabels on the map at once rather than at the next heartbeat.

Is Iron Realms free to play?

Yes. Iron Realms is free to play in any browser with no download and no account required. Every building, troop tier and Seat of Power is reachable without spending money — purchases buy speed and cosmetics, never a higher ceiling.

Does spending money make you stronger in Iron Realms?

No. Nothing purchasable raises your power ceiling. A charter audit runs on every build and fails it if any offer would sell power. Spending compresses time: the summit takes about 24 months free, or 18 months with the $9.99 monthly Warden's Charter held throughout.

Your Name in the Realm

Quick answers

What is 'New Lord' in Iron Realms?: It is the realm's own name for a lord who has not chosen one. The Nth keep ever founded is called New Lord N — so New Lord 12 really is the twelfth keep raised in that realm. It is a placeholder, and the game invites you to replace it.
Can other players see your email in Iron Realms?: No. There is exactly one function that produces a public name and it cannot emit an email address. Names containing an '@' are refused when you set them and masked if an old record still holds one.
How do you change your name in Iron Realms?: Council → Your name in the realm, or the rename control on your Lord Profile. The change is immediate: your keep relabels on the map at once rather than at the next heartbeat.
Is Iron Realms free to play?: Yes. Iron Realms is free to play in any browser with no download and no account required. Every building, troop tier and Seat of Power is reachable without spending money — purchases buy speed and cosmetics, never a higher ceiling.
Does spending money make you stronger in Iron Realms?: No. Nothing purchasable raises your power ceiling. A charter audit runs on every build and fails it if any offer would sell power. Spending compresses time: the summit takes about 24 months free, or 18 months with the $9.99 monthly Warden's Charter held throughout.

Your Name in the Realm — Iron Realms — Your name flies over your keep, your words, and your record.

Your name is not a settings field. It flies over your keep on the shared map, heads every battle report you appear in, sits beside every word you say in chat, and is what the leaderboards call you. It is worth a minute.

The naming ceremony

The first time you launch with a keep and no chosen name, the game asks — once, politely, at the door. You can take a name there, or choose Later; "Later" is honoured for the whole session and the ceremony returns at the next launch until you have taken one.

It never interrupts the welcome-back summary, and it never appears in offline play — there is no herald to tell.

The realm's own name for you

Until you choose, the realm calls you New Lord N, where N counts the keeps ever founded. The twelfth keep raised is New Lord 12.

Two things about that number are worth knowing:

It counts keeps, not anonymous lords. A lord who arrives already named still occupies a place in the count, so the number really does describe when you arrived.
It never moves. Once minted it is yours; a lord ahead of you leaving the realm does not renumber you.

It is unmistakably a placeholder — which is the point. The name it replaced was a title hashed from your account ("Warden of Duskendale"), which read like a choice, so nobody realised they had never made one.

You cannot take someone else's number as your own name. "New Lord 12" already belongs to whoever the realm numbered twelfth, and the game refuses it.

Changing it

Two doors, both immediate:

Council → 🪶 Your name in the realm
Lord Profile → ✍️ Change your name

Names run from 2 to 24 characters. Control and bidirectional characters are stripped — they are used to spoof names and to break layout. When the change lands, your keep's label on the shared map updates at once rather than waiting for the next heartbeat.

Your email is never shown

This is a promise the privacy policy makes and the code keeps.

There is exactly one function in the game that produces a public name, and it cannot emit an email address. Anything containing an "@" is refused when you set it. Records written before display names existed are laundered on the way out, so even an old row cannot leak an address. And served battle reports — which store names inside them at the time they are written — are swept for email-shaped text before they reach a screen.

If you ever see an address where a name should be, that is a bug worth a thread in Bug Reports.

Your House and your sigil

Your House name sits beside your lord name, and your sigil is composed separately and free. If you ride under an alliance banner, that banner outranks the House string everywhere the realm shows a house — the boards, the map roster, the Great Houses table and the live stream all agree on it.