Overview
Rex is a playable character in Silver Palace. He was introduced through an official character title page during the reveal cycle for the game's second closed beta, the Dichotomy Beta Test. His title is Superintendent, and he serves in the River Constabulary, the law enforcement organization of Silvernia. The tagline attached to his reveal is "The Scales of Black and White."
Profile
Detail | Value |
|---|---|
Title | The Scales of Black and White |
Rarity | 5-star |
Class | Hero |
Element | Fulmen |
Occupation | Superintendent |
Affiliation | River Constabulary |
Availability | Playable |
Appearance
The official title page shows a dark-haired man in a black peaked cap and a black double-breasted greatcoat with a red cravat and gloves, standing on cobblestones and flanked by three black Dobermans in spiked collars. Gothic window tracery and purple flowers fill the background. The card gives the role beneath the name as Superintendent.
Role
As a Superintendent, Rex holds a senior enforcement post in the River Constabulary, the same body led by Chief Inspector Lorin. His official profile presents him as an officer devoted to the letter of the law. The quote on his title page reads: "Enforcers of the law must show no leniency to maintain its authority."
His route into the post is a lateral one. The Detective's notes record him as a young man appointed out of the Royal Navy into the River Constabulary rather than promoted up through it, which is part of why Lorin talks about him the way he does: Rex is the superior Lorin describes as dreaded, and Rex in turn files Lorin as an indecisive, sly old constable.
Personality
Rex is described as a young superintendent who steps forward quickly in a crisis. His belief in order borders on the fanatical, and he sees justice in stark terms, treating wrongdoing as something without shades of grey. That rigid outlook contrasts with the Detective, who works outside formal institutions and weighs each case on its own evidence.
Combat Role
Rex is a 5-star character of the Hero class, a front-line damage class, and carries the Fulmen elemental attribute. The second test's own reward announcement lists him as the 5-star Hero "Rex | Superintendent", one of the featured 5-stars on its standard Repertoire Beyond the Curtain and standard Monologue Hidden Pages. Those values describe that build rather than a finished release version.
Like every playable character, Rex channels these abilities through a personal Reactor, the same technology described on Silverium and Spinotrodes. The elemental attribute also determines which Resonance effect triggers once the Resonance meter fills during a fight.
Abilities
The kit below was recorded in the second closed beta build, the Dichotomy Beta Test, so the values describe that build rather than a finished release version. Rex runs on two resources: Rage, capped at 120 and building at one per second plus a fixed amount on every landed hit, and Volt Charge, which his Skill banks and his strongest Skill form spends.
Method | Type | Effect |
|---|---|---|
Composite Club | Basic Attack | Four-hit truncheon chain granting 4, 12, 14 and 20 Rage. Parrying holds the combo position instead of resetting it, and the signature follow-ups after the Skill cut incoming damage by 20% while they run. |
Adaptive Rule | Skill | Three linked forms. Dual Truncheons spends 60 Rage for a somersaulting strike and banks a Volt Charge; Extended Truncheon chains off it for another 60 Rage and a second charge; Nunchucks Law fires once Volt Charge is full, ending in a lightning strike. Incoming damage is negated during all three. |
Thunderous Judgement | Ultimate | Sets two police dogs on the target in a coordinated attack, then calls down a lightning strike and returns 120 Rage. |
Exemplar Enforcer | Switch-in attack that calls truncheon lightning strikes and releases the dogs again. | |
Righteous Spirit | Passive | Signature Move damage grants 7% attack for 16 seconds, stacking four times, and Fulmen Resonance effects deal two extra instances of damage. |
Acquaintance
Rex can be invited to the Detective's Office through the Acquaintance affinity layer, given gifts there, and summoned as a companion. Trust builds from gifts and from ordinary shared activity: fighting alongside the Detective, exploring, and eating together. The details below were recorded in the second closed beta build.
Detail | Value |
|---|---|
Birthday | 23 August |
Interests and skills | Combat drills, interrogation, training police dogs, maintaining weaponry |
Likes | Everything being in order, newspaper crosswords, small animals, sugar-heavy food in moderation |
Dislikes | Foiled plans, pointless socialising, breaking rules, colleagues who slack off |
Preferred gifts | Small Weights Set, Enamel Pocket Watch |
Background | Appointed from the Royal Navy to the River Constabulary |
Relationship | Lorin, whom he calls an indecisive, sly old constable |
The dogs that appear in his Ultimate and his switch-in attack are his own, and the same notes name two of them. One is Chalky. The other he called "Centimeter-wave Radar", picked out of a naval studies book after some deliberation and kept because he liked it. It is a pet name and nothing more: there is no readout, scanner or heads-up display element of that name anywhere in the game.
Five Acquaintance levels are tracked for Rex. In that build the first four levels each paid Ounces and reading material, and the fifth paid a Standard Shot together with Reactor Crystals. The first level unlocked the Keep Company interaction and the second a personal letter, while the fifth unlocked an interaction called "Come, Chalky". Those figures come from a test build and are the kind of number most likely to be retuned before release.
His recorded impression of the Detective starts at "Lawbreaker", which is a compact summary of the gap between an officer who treats the letter of the law as the whole of it and a freelance investigator who works outside the system entirely.