Tag: forge

Don’t Bother Me, I’m Working

He had no teacher to guide him, but he held the small mallet with confidence, carefully and patiently forming the symbols, one tap at a time. Honee had been right – it was better to do something for someone else.  But she had given him more guidance than she would ever know.  He had believed…


When Your Efforts Are For Naught

Baneck stood before the forge, his hammer and chisel at the ready.  In the wider world, smiths would find it difficult to smelt the orgite.  The furnaces of the Coast were specially made, with hot-fired bricks of the unique clay of the land, containing the greater heat produced by the driftwood. The resulting blaze was…