Who Is Gratia in Silver Palace?

Silver Palace's character title page series has a new face: Gratia, introduced on July 5 as a Knight and billed as "Her Majesty's Protégé." After a run of reveals built around detectives and hidden Reactors, Gratia swings the spotlight to the other side of Silvernia's power map, the loyal blade standing in front of the throne rather than the investigator digging behind it.

As always with pre-release material, the title page is a mood piece, not a character sheet. Here is what her card actually confirms, kept separate from what is still guesswork.

What the title page confirms

Gratia's card lays out a clear archetype. She is a Knight grouped under Royalty and Aristocracy, and her bio describes a fiercely loyal knight and a brave (if foolish) follower who raises her sword and shield in the name of knightly honor and the Queen's grace. So the two things the reveal is certain about are her weapon profile (sword and shield) and her allegiance (the crown).

Her headline quote leans into that earnest, drill-happy loyalty: "Routine training shall make the knights stronger... Thus spake Her Majesty the Queen!" It reads like a character who takes the Queen's word as scripture, right down to quoting it. The art matches the tone: a rabbit-eared knight in white-and-blue royal regalia, sword and shield at the ready, art credited to ©Elementa.

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Reading the 'dark secrets beneath the throne' line

The card does not stop at knightly devotion. It closes with a heavier note: "Many dark secrets fester beneath the throne. Pray that the enlightened shall descend to deliver us unto salvation." That is a strange thing to hang on a character whose whole pitch is unquestioning loyalty to the Queen, and it is where the reveal gets interesting.

Treat what follows as theory, not fact. Silver Palace has been building steadily toward a story about buried truths under Silvernia's polished surface, from the Great Disaster cover-up to the sibling detectives who vanished in the airship crash tied to the Queen's assassination. A loyal knight described as brave if foolish, sworn to a throne the game keeps hinting is rotten underneath, is a classic setup for a loyalty that gets tested. Whether Gratia is a true believer who never learns better, or one who eventually has to reconcile her faith with those "dark secrets," is exactly the sort of thread the reveal is dangling. Nothing shown confirms which way it goes; the card simply plants the seed. As it turns out, the Dichotomy Beta story quest that followed leans into exactly this reading, which is where this post now picks up.

For context on where a royal knight sits among Silvernia's competing powers, our factions guide breaks down the royal affiliates alongside MISS, the corporates, and the syndicates.

What the Dichotomy Beta story quest revealed

Gratia is no longer just a title card. The Dichotomy Beta (CBT2) shipped a full Gratia story quest, "Gratia Story Quest & Horse Racing," and it fills in most of the blanks the reveal left open.

She is Argent Knight Gratia of the Order of the Tide, a knight order sworn to the crown, and the Queen hand-picked her out of the whole order to serve as a personal royal knight. Her fanbase in-story is the children of Silvernia, who vouch for her when the adults will not. The quest settles two things the title page only implied: she is strong enough to fight without a lance, and she really is drawn as a rabbit, with characters calling her the "bunny knight" outright. The "brave (if foolish)" bio line plays out on screen as a knight who is earnest, reckless, and dogged by bad luck, and who has never once won the event she trains for all year.

The Queen also gave her a prototype mount, a Silverium steed: a metal horse that needs no food, senses its rider's feelings, and, as the quest reveals, can fly. Gratia names it "Top Hat," after the detective's headwear. (The beta audio renders the material as "Svarium," which lines up with the community's earlier reading that "Svarium" was a mishearing of Silverium.) The quest's centerpiece is the Royal Equestrian Tournament, where Gratia is disqualified for taking to the air, against tournament rules, to bring down a harpy and shield the crowd.

That "dark secrets fester beneath the throne" line gets its payoff here. Afterward, the Queen's Herald admits to the detective that the harpy attack was a controlled disturbance the Queen staged, timed to lift the Order of the Tide's reputation and show the public that the knights can now take to the skies. Gratia, whom the Herald calls error-prone, naive, and pure-souled, is deliberately kept unaware, and the detective (the player-character sleuth) is asked to guide her from the shadows as her "lucky four-leaf clover." A loyal knight standing before a throne that quietly manipulates her is exactly the tested-loyalty setup the title page only hinted at.

The order's standing on the street is rougher than its standing at court. An internal circular from the River Constabulary, A Call for Harmony, goes out after anonymous reports that constables had come to blows with members of the Order of the Tide, "resulting in brawls and other unbecoming conduct." Its argument for stopping is that both the Order and the Royal Navy "serve as arms of Her Majesty the Queen" and perform similar roles, so they must coexist "as friends, not foes." Neither body can pull rank on the other, because the chain of command runs past both of them to the throne, which is precisely why the friction keeps happening. A second document, a shopkeeper's letter titled Guess Where I Am, catches it in the street: "two young folk at loggerheads, looked like a knight and a constable. Neither giving ground." The River Constabulary faction lore covers the other side of that standoff.

The quest also drops a thread that ties back to Silvernia's buried history: one knight still mourns failing to save the late Queen Auguria, the fallen ruler at the center of the Great Disaster. The Order's guilt over that failure now reads as part of what the crown is leveraging.

Gratia's combat profile

A preview build fills in the character sheet the story quest left blank. Gratia is a playable 5-star Glacies unit with the Survival and Healing Combat Style and a Guardian identity, fighting with the sword and shield her title page showed.

That combination reads cleanly off her character: a Guardian sworn to protect, running the role built around keeping a team upright, on the attribute the game frames as ultra-cold condensate. In practice her sustain is shields rather than raw healing, and the whole kit is wired around blocking: parry into a combo, hold the shield to charge a counter-rush, then cash the meter out as a team-wide barrier. Values below come from a beta build, so treat them as pre-release.

Methods (skills)

Methods is her active skill set, and two resources drive it. Muscle Memory banks off her Basic Attack combo and gets spent on her Skill. Stalwart Fury builds while she holds her shield up, faster the more she is hit.

• Blunted Blade (Basic Attack): A combo of up to 5 hits dealing Glacies DMG, with the 4th and 5th hits rapidly building Muscle Memory. A Perfect Dodge lets her jump straight to the 4th hit; a Parry lets her jump to the 3rd.
  • Charged Attack: Hold Basic Attack to slash, then slam the ground at the higher level for Glacies DMG. Pressing Basic Attack before it finishes chains into the 4th hit of the combo.
  • Pursuit Attack: After Dodging, press Basic Attack for a Pursuit Attack dealing Glacies DMG.
  • Special Block: Hold Parry to raise the shield and build Stalwart Fury, cutting incoming DMG by 50%. At full Stalwart Fury, press or release Parry for a Shield Rush that deals Glacies DMG and interrupts everything it hits. Holding the shield drains Stamina, and taking attacks charges Stalwart Fury faster.
• Flowing Shield (Skill): Consumes all Muscle Memory to slam the shield into the ground, dealing Glacies DMG and giving every character on the team a Shield worth 40% of Gratia's Max HP for 20s. Muscle Memory caps at 100 and passively regenerates 5 per second.
• Spear of Glory (Ultimate): At full charge, she condenses Silverium in her right hand, shapes it into a spiral spear with her Reactor, and hurls it. It deals continuous Glacies DMG on hit, then explodes for massive Glacies DMG.
• Severe Deterrent (Tactical Assault): Switches her in with sufficient Reactor Energy for Glacies DMG, counterattacking and interrupting any enemy that attacks during the animation.
• Silverium Blessing (Passive): Triggering a Glacies Resonance Effect gives every other character on the team 12% ATK for 40s.

Because the Shield scales off Gratia's Max HP rather than ATK, HP is her payload stat, and the team-wide ATK buffs on her Passive and Psyche mean she pays for her slot even while she is off-field.

Psyche

The Psyche tree is her advancement path, six nodes that sharpen her shield, her counters, and her team buffs:

• I. Bewildered Bunny Knight: Her Skill's team-wide Shield gains 10% strength and lasts 30s instead of 20s.
• II. The Foolish and the Brave: Her Tactical Assault cuts the DEF of targets hit by 8% for 40s, plus another 4% if that Tactical Assault parries an enemy attack.
• III. Failed Hopes: Her Tactical Assault deals 50% more counter DMG and fully charges Stalwart Fury.
• IV. The Eight Virtues: After parrying an enemy attack, her DMG to that attacker rises 24% for 10s.
• V. Under Your Guidance: Ultimate Charge Efficiency up 25%, and using her Ultimate raises the whole team's ATK by 20% for 40s.
• VI. Throneside Honour: Shield Rush DMG up 20%, and Ultimate DMG up 24% for 6s once it connects.

The through-line is parrying. Three of the six nodes reward blocking or countering, and III in particular skips the hold-the-shield charge time by filling Stalwart Fury outright, so a Tactical Assault swap turns straight into a Shield Rush.

For the full move list and node effects, see Gratia's character page.

How to see Gratia yourself

The reveals were timed to the Dichotomy Beta Test, whose sign-ups closed on July 16, 2026. Our Dichotomy beta guide covers what the test includes, and the registration roundup tracks where the selection phase stands. Gratia's story quest shipped in that build, so beta footage is where the rest of her sword-and-shield kit, and whether those "dark secrets" go anywhere, will keep taking shape.

In the Story: Dichotomy Beta

Gratia is the "bunny knight," an Argent Knight of the Order of the Tide handpicked by the queen and adored by a trio of street children who hire the Detective to find her. After losing the queen's prototype Silverium steed, she reconciles with it and names it Top Hat, after the Detective's headwear.

At the Royal Equestrian Tournament a harpy attacks, Top Hat reveals he can fly, and Gratia takes to the air to protect the crowd, only to be disqualified. The Queen's Herald then reveals the attack was staged to show the public a knight fighting for her people. Read the full quest in the Silver Palace story recap.

FAQ

Who is Gratia in Silver Palace?

Gratia is a character introduced through Silver Palace's character title page series on July 5, 2026, presented as a Knight and "Her Majesty's Protégé." Her card describes a fiercely loyal royal knight who fights with sword and shield in the Queen's name. A Dichotomy Beta story quest and a later preview build have since filled her out as Argent Knight Gratia of the Order of the Tide, a playable 5-star Glacies Survival & Healing with a Guardian identity.

Is Gratia a playable character?

Yes. A preview build lists her as a playable 5-star Glacies unit with the Survival and Healing Combat Style and a Guardian identity, so she is a roster unit rather than a quest-only NPC.

What is Gratia's class and faction?

Her card lists her class as Knight and groups her under Royalty and Aristocracy, marking her as a royal knight aligned with the crown. On the gameplay side she is a 5-star Glacies unit with the Survival and Healing Combat Style and a Guardian identity, fighting with sword and shield.

How can I see Gratia in the game?

Gratia was revealed alongside the Dichotomy Beta Test, whose sign-ups closed on July 16, 2026. Her story quest shipped in that build, so see our Dichotomy beta guide for what the test includes and watch beta footage for more of her in play.

What does Gratia's kit do?

Gratia builds Muscle Memory with her Basic Attack combo and spends it on Flowing Shield, which gives every character on the team a Shield worth 40% of her Max HP. Holding Parry charges Stalwart Fury for a Shield Rush that interrupts enemies, her Ultimate Spear of Glory throws a Silverium spear that explodes for heavy Glacies DMG, and her Silverium Blessing passive gives the rest of the team 12% ATK when a Glacies Resonance Effect triggers.

What is the Order of the Tide?

The Order of the Tide is the knight order Gratia belongs to, introduced in her Dichotomy Beta story quest. It is sworn to the crown, and the Queen selected Gratia from within it to serve as her personal royal knight. It answers to the Queen rather than to any other city institution, which is why an internal River Constabulary circular addressing brawls between constables and knights can only ask both sides to coexist as friends rather than order one to stand down. The order's wider role in Silvernia has not been detailed yet.

Can Gratia's steed fly?

Yes. In the story quest, the prototype Silverium steed the Queen gave Gratia, which Gratia names Top Hat, takes flight during the Royal Equestrian Tournament. Flying breaks the tournament rules, so Gratia is disqualified, and the flight turns out to be part of a scheme staged by the Queen.