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Fantasy fam, this one has the forging lore and the underdog payoff we love.
He was the lowest apprentice in the forge. While the masters worked with godsteel and divine fire, he worked with scraps. They mocked him. They called his work trash. They said he'd never forge anything worth a damn. He didn't listen. He collected ten scraps of iron. He heated them. He hammered them. And what he forged wasn't just a weapon. It was a statement.
Here's the fantasy setup you need to know:
- Godsteel is the sacred metal of the forge – only the worthy can shape it
- The ten scraps of iron were discarded, considered worthless by every master
- His forging technique is different – patient, precise, built on hunger instead of divine blessing
- The blade he creates from scraps isn't just strong – it has something godsteel lacks: soul
- The moment it cuts through a master's godsteel weapon is the moment the forge hierarchy shatters
The world-building is solid. The forging mechanics are detailed and satisfying. And the underdog arc is the kind of story that makes fantasy work. If you like stories where the lowest apprentice becomes the greatest smith, watch this.
— FS, fantasy girlie for life 🐺🧛
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Fantasy fam, this one has the forging lore and the underdog payoff we love.
He was the lowest apprentice in the forge. While the masters worked with godsteel and divine fire, he worked with scraps. They mocked him. They called his work trash. They said he'd never forge anything worth a damn. He didn't listen. He collected ten scraps of iron. He heated them. He hammered them. And what he forged wasn't just a weapon. It was a statement.
Here's the fantasy setup you need to know:
- Godsteel is the sacred metal of the forge – only the worthy can shape it
- The ten scraps of iron were discarded, considered worthless by every master
- His forging technique is different – patient, precise, built on hunger instead of divine blessing
- The blade he creates from scraps isn't just strong – it has something godsteel lacks: soul
- The moment it cuts through a master's godsteel weapon is the moment the forge hierarchy shatters
The world-building is solid. The forging mechanics are detailed and satisfying. And the underdog arc is the kind of story that makes fantasy work. If you like stories where the lowest apprentice becomes the greatest smith, watch this.
— FS, fantasy girlie for life 🐺🧛
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00:17Well, Pyrrhus, Hermon's Forge has a rising star now.
00:21Working for Master Hermrock now, eh?
00:23Must be raking it in.
00:25Him.
00:25He's nothing but a common hammerhand.
00:27I heard he didn't even qualify for the assessment.
00:30Hammerhand.
00:31That's what they called me three years ago.
00:33Three years later, nothing's changed.
00:44Two hundred, done.
00:45Last month, my brother took down a two-headed wolf with one of these.
00:48Didn't even blink.
00:49Hermon's blades are worth every coin.
00:51You heard the news?
00:52Their Master Derek forged First Light in a single night.
00:55Their blades will be going for five hundred soon.
00:58Move along.
00:58Can't afford it.
01:00Don't block the window.
01:01Look at the state of view.
01:02You'll stink my paying customers right out the door.
01:09Two hundred gold, the blade.
01:11I forged them.
01:12Three years of my life for ten scraps of iron.
01:16Fine.
01:17Starting tonight, I'm taking it all back.
01:19One blade at a time.
01:30The shop on Market Street, still open.
01:33Come see it after sunrise.
01:35Though you don't sound much like a merchant lad.
01:37After sunrise, I'll be there.
01:39Mind if I ask?
01:40What business are you opening?
01:42The furniture.
01:47I'll be there.
01:48Yes.
01:48Yes.
01:58Yes.
02:02Yes.
02:05Yes.
02:11Let's do it.
02:15Three years over a thousand nights like this one nobody knows where these blades come from
03:01There's just one thing, every single girl in a new car carries someone else's name
03:07An assessment day, three years of riding this wonder
03:12Master promised he'd put my name forward
03:23Top honors in this year's movement assessment go to
03:32First light
03:38That's my fruit
03:40From Hermann's forge
03:43By
03:46Gerrick
03:55A rising star, Hermann's senior apprentice
03:58They say he designed and forged the blade in a single night
04:02A genius
04:04A single night, that was three years of my life
04:07Stand back, authorized entrance only
04:14Thanks little brother
04:33Master, that sword and those designs are mine
04:37You promised to put my name forward
04:38Three years under my roof
04:40Every design and blade made here belongs to this forge
04:42An apprentice holds no mark, I have the final say
04:44That's Gidlaw
04:46Pass the fire calling test to mark your name
04:50But an embolus like you can't even feel forge fire
04:54You'd shame my name
04:56Fine then I quit, pay me three years wages
05:06Three years of food, lodging and my teaching
05:08These ten scraps of iron settle your wages
05:11Call it generosity
05:12And you're not leaving yet
05:14Drago ordered thirty blades due in a fortnight
05:17Finish them and I'll consider you for mastery and mark
05:19Walk out now and I'll make sure no one in this city hire you
05:22Not even to mend pots
05:31Master, you know you forged every best selling blade here
05:35That gold armband
05:36Your new chariot
05:38My hands paid for both
05:40The hands you could worthless
05:41And you've promised me my mark for three years
05:44Enough
05:45Thirty blades
05:46One fortnight
05:51I'd have scraps of iron
05:52Fine
05:54Then this is my starting stake
06:12Well, Pyrrhus
06:13Hermon's forge has a rising star now
06:16Working for Master Hermrock now, eh?
06:18Must be raking it in
06:19Him?
06:20He's nothing but a common hammerhand
06:22I heard he didn't even qualify for the assessment
06:24Hammerhand
06:25That's what they called me three years ago
06:27Three years later
06:29Nothing's changed
06:38Two hundred dust
06:40Last month my brother took down a two-headed wall
06:42For one of these
06:43Didn't even blink
06:43Hermon's blades are worth every coin
06:45But who knows?
06:47The Master Derek finished first line
06:48This single night
06:49I paid him for five hundred cement
06:52Move along
06:53Can't afford it
06:54Don't block the window
06:55Look at the state in there
06:57I'll stick my paying dust
06:58Because right out the door
06:59I'm going to do
07:05I'm going to do
07:05I'm going to do
07:06I've forced it
07:07Three years of my life
07:08With the tent scraps behind
07:10I'm fine
07:11Starting tonight
07:12I'll take it all back
07:14One blade at a time
07:16It's all
07:25The shop on Market Street
07:26Still open
07:27Come see it after sunrise
07:29Though you don't sound much like a merchant lad
07:31After sunrise
07:33I'll be there
07:33Mind if I ask?
07:35What business are you opening?
07:37A forge
07:49You're back
07:50How did the assessment go?
07:53Fine
07:54Father
07:54Your medicine first
08:10What is that?
08:16Three years
08:17Up before dawn
08:19Scarred head to toe
08:20And this is what they pay you
08:22I'll go and have it out with him myself
08:25Father
08:27Don't
08:27He's not worth it
08:28These ten scraps
08:30I'm keeping them
08:30As what to start with
08:32I'm going to
08:33Open my own forge
08:35Good
08:37Good
08:38Those hands of yours
08:40Were never meant to be buried
08:41In another man's back feet
08:42Your father
08:53Message from Master Herman
08:54The forge is to be lit at first light tomorrow
08:56Thirty blades inspected daily
08:58Each day's delay
08:59Will cost you one scrap of iron
09:00Those were his exact words
09:03The Master
09:04The Master is entertaining guests
09:05His exact words were
09:07Go tell that grunt
09:08I'm only the messenger
09:10Understood
09:11Go
09:30Master
09:31Do you see?
09:33The boy has grown
09:35Those hands
09:36Just like yours
09:41Today
09:42They ground him
09:43Into the dirt
09:43And this useless
09:45Old servant
09:46Couldn't protect him
09:47But I haven't forgotten
09:49A single word
09:50Of what you've entrusted to me
09:53Until the fire wakes
09:55Not a soul may know
09:57Those people
09:59They're still hunting
10:00For this hammer
10:01Even now
10:02A little longer
10:04Master
10:05Let this old servant
10:07Hide it for you
10:09Just a few more years
10:14A grunt
10:15So for three years
10:16That was all I was to him
10:18Not even a name
10:19Father's medicine
10:20The shop rent
10:22Three years of work
10:23With someone else's name on it
10:25Herman
10:25I'm taking it all back
10:27Piece by piece
10:44Mercenary's hall
10:45Out the front door
10:46The grand marking
10:47On your head
10:48Guard barrages down the street
10:49Every blade sword in the city
10:51Passes right there
10:53Fifteen gold of money
10:55One year up front
10:56Cash over
10:58So
11:00Can't be done quite today
11:02Give me three months
11:04Then I would pay
11:05Four years rent
11:06With interest
11:07If I fail
11:08I'll take the shop back
11:09And I'll smith for you
11:10Three months for nothing
11:12Flores
11:13I'll take this shop
11:14Sixteen gold a month
11:16Half a year in cash
11:17Right here
11:29I love this Gregory
11:31He wants to rent a shop
11:33There's a stut on him
11:34I can hardly breathe
11:37Sir
11:38That reliquium
11:38How long has it been sealed shut
11:44Ten years
11:45It was my late wife's reliquium
11:49Every lockspice in the city
11:50Says forcing it open
11:51Would destroy it
11:53Why do you ask?
12:22The shop's not for rent
12:23Not to you
12:24Take your money chest
12:25And go
12:26Old man
12:27I'm paying cash
12:29Money
12:29I've seen plenty
12:31A true craft
12:33Precious feel
12:34Three months
12:35We put it in writing
12:37And boy
12:38Don't truth these old eyes wrong
12:40For the first time in my life
12:44The shop's settled
12:46Now
12:47Time to talk all
12:48Call me that one-eyed giant
13:02For ten years
13:03Every bar of iron Hermann built
13:05Came from my ore
13:07And now one word
13:08And this filth rolls through my gate
13:12Master giant
13:13Business is business
13:14My ore's half the price
13:16And Master Hermann has already signed
13:18And sealed the contract
13:19Your starfall copper may be fine ore
13:21But it's priced like it
13:34It's cut with nethersill
13:36Blades made from it break
13:37And the first touch of monster blood
13:39Sharp once
13:40Broken the next
13:41Use it for those thirty army blades
13:43And you're trading thirty guardsmen's lives
13:45For a few coins
13:46My, my
13:47The grunt knows so much
13:49The man who pays
13:51Asked the price
13:52Not how many men die
13:58Ten years
13:59You were the one receiving my ore
14:01At Hermann's
14:02He only ever signed
14:03So boy
14:04You didn't come today
14:05To run his errands
14:06I'm opening my own forge
14:07I cannot put down a single vic
14:09But I want your finest starfall copper
14:11Put it on my account
14:12And I will repay you double
14:15Men who can look at ore
14:16This city's full of them
14:18Men who can listen to it
14:19In fifty years
14:20I've never met one
14:21Go on
14:22Tell me if it's asleep
14:43Dear
14:43My best star on apartheid
14:46I've ever served for you
14:47Better to deal with me
14:48You're master
14:52Your sight goes high
14:53And every mistakes he's
14:55Running to the monster
14:57Bloodlines fire
14:58And it isn't meant to
14:59A die-round number
15:00It is dead
15:02I can't turn
15:03I'm winning
15:05I'm not
15:06I'm not
15:06I'm not
15:06I'm not
15:07I'm not
15:07I'm not
15:18I knew it. They bought that nether sun war.
15:26Master Derek, the heirloom blade of House Serena. I ask only that you examine it.
15:30The soul room is broken. I can pay. Installments collateral...
15:34You again? What is this, the seventh time?
15:37Listen well. A broken soul room. Pythagoras himself can step down from Olympus and not mend it.
15:44Sell your fallen house a scrap while he can still buy medicine.
15:47Scrap metal? When my grandfather carried this sword on the northern wall, certain masters here were still shooing horses.
16:05Well, well, the grunt. What, come to your senses? Go on in. The forge is waiting for you. Crawl in
16:10on your knees. Master might even toss you a meal.
16:16This sword can still be saved.
16:23You, Mender's soul roomed. Something no master smith in the entire guild dares touch. Ruin the heirloom of a knightly
16:28house. And how will you pay for it? With your life?
16:30If you trust me, bring it to me in ten days.
16:34If not, forget we ever met.
16:47Seventeen forges. Three master smiths. They all said the same thing. A broken soul room stays broken. What makes you
16:51different?
16:53They're not wrong. Once a room breaks, it cannot be mended. But your sword? The room broke. The soul did
16:59not. It's still ringing. When I touched it just now, it felt like it still refused to sleep.
17:05Which forge are you with, anyway?
17:09In ten days, you'll know. East end of Market Street, the shop with the black door. Bring the sword, and
17:15you need not beg anyone else again.
17:16East end of Market Street, and you need not beg anyone else again.
17:27Find out who that grunt has been meeting these past few days. One more thing. Tell master, I found our
17:36serving boy for the celebration feast. Have you come? Wait on me, in front of every guild dignitary.
17:53Out of regard of your years together, master Herman invites you to master Derek's celebration feast. His exact words were,
18:01before the guild's dignitaries, I will see that you are treated properly.
18:09All this sudden kindness. They're up to something. Don't go.
18:14I know they're up to something. That's exactly why I'm going. I want to see what he's playing at. And
18:20I need to know how badly Draco's order has been compromised.
18:29Master Herman's instructions, your dignity tonight, begins with holding this tray steady.
18:35The man holding the tray is every work and every day.
18:39Master Herman's too kind, giving an emberless free food and porridge for three years.
18:42If you ask me, a dog's a better bargain. At least a dog guards the door.
18:52A dog's a sword. Keep away from the steward. If that stitch reaches him, how will you answer for it?
18:57Thirty-year cretin' vintage. One stick has got half a year of your wages.
19:02Await for your wages. How many scraps of iron was it again?
19:14And now, the successor to First Light. My own design. Three-stage tempering. Twin Ridge binding room.
19:24When it leaves the forge, the world gets another masterpiece.
19:28The third tempering room is drawn backwards. Forge it from this design and it will shatter the day it leaves
19:33the album.
19:36Ha ha ha ha ha! The serving boy lectures us on tempering rooms.
19:41Hermann, your servant seems to have quite the entertainment.
19:44Nonsense! A madman's babble! Someone take him out! He's had too much to drink!
20:00I invited you tonight to give you a way out. I will pretend I never heard what you said. Finish
20:05the order and I'll see to your master and mark.
20:08Three years. I could recite this speech in my sleep. I'll think about it.
20:19The Centurion's thirty rune blades delivered within the fortnight.
20:27Every single one. My own hand of work.
20:32Your hand of work? Good. Then let Centurion Draco inspect your hand of work. Personally.
20:49That grunt! Three days! And he has not answered the crystal once! The inspection is in a full night!
20:58Why worry, master? Where's he going to run? His sick old man's medicine can't skip a day. By month's end,
21:04hunger will have him crawling back to the forge.
21:07Come, come. A goldsmith is set up at the market below. You have to see this.
21:22Excellent taste, gentlemen. Pure cast gold, gemstone, hour marks, 280,000 gold. The only one on the continent.
21:30280,000? That's a whole season of the forge's earnings!
21:34Master, put the grunt to work for two more months and it pays for itself. He'd scraps of iron, remember?
21:39Ha! True enough! Buy it! Once the apprentice had learned every trick he knows, out he goes.
21:57Pyrrhus, your license is approved. Under city statute, the holder may establish a forge, take apprentice and strike his own
22:05maker's mark on his work and is fully responsible for it.
22:10Well, isn't this the serving boy from the feast? The guild licenses stones now? Opening a forge, are you? What
22:16will you make? Nails?
22:31The last man in the city who dares touch this sword, and his workshop has no roof. Should I feel
22:38honored?
22:39The roof comes in three days. It's not the roof the sword is waiting for, it's the fire. And you
22:44came. And did you trust me?
22:50Dirty silver. It's all house siren and rays, I know that won't cover it. Our shop supplies quenching oils and
22:55enchanting herbs to every forge in the city. I can pay you in goods. Ten years, twenty, I'll repay every
23:00coin.
23:10Tell me about it.
23:14Its name is Dawnkeeper. It was my grandfather's, a knight's soul rock blade. He carried it for twenty years on
23:20the northern wall.
23:23They said from the sectar war going standard, Dawnkeeper was always the first light to rise. Then grandfather fell, and
23:30our house fell with him. Most of the estate is mortgaged. Everyone told me to melt the sword down for
23:36coin. As long as his sword endures, house siren has not knelt.
23:48It... Did it just glow?
23:52It never slept. I told you the rune broke, that Sol did not.
23:58Put your money away. I'll take the sword. If I fail, I'll forge you a new one. If I succeed,
24:04you decide what the work is worth.
24:09The rune runs deep into the steel, and I can't see where it turns. What the eye can't see, the
24:14hand can't mend. How did they do this three hundred years ago?
24:25Come home. There's something. It's time you had it.
24:30No.
24:33No.
24:34No.
24:35No.
24:37No.
24:42No.
24:43No.
24:44No.
24:45No.
24:46No.
24:47No.
24:47Well I heard. Your forge is nearly built.
24:50No.no
24:52Almost.
24:53On opening
24:53day I want you to light the first fire. Good.
24:56Good.
24:57A smith
24:57setting up his own Forge needs a hammer of his own. Not rented.
25:01Not borrowed.
25:02Not given.
25:03Handed down
25:05.... ... ...
25:07...
25:09...
25:18This was your father's.
25:21I have kept it for 20 years.
25:24Now, it's going home.
25:27My father.
25:29Who was he?
25:32No smith ever had cleaner hands.
25:35Then, you were those people.
25:40No more questions.
25:42When the fire wakes, it will tell you.
25:59Just now, I saw it.
26:02The casting floors in the copper pot.
26:05The crack inside the door bolt.
26:07Father, this hammer.
26:09There's a spirit in it.
26:11It woke.
26:12It woke.
26:15That's all that matters.
26:20Take these and start your forge.
26:24Go.
26:24Light your fire.
26:27No.
26:34Master, the hammer is now.
26:36I know.
26:37It woke you head to its mouth.
26:43Master, the hammer is hailed.
26:58I'm not going to lose this game.
27:18The coin isn't enough.
27:21I cannot take this coin.
27:23The copper is a gift, something for your first fire.
27:28I can't accept that.
27:30We agreed to put it on my account.
27:31Take it.
27:33We'll forge your sword tonight, boy.
27:36Some debts are not measured in coin.
27:57Tonight, I reforge Dawnkeeper.
27:59You should be here.
28:00This sword is your family's soul.
28:14I'm not going to die.
28:16You should be here.
28:19This sword is not a gift.
28:20I'm not going to die.
28:22I'm not going to die.
28:28You're not going to die.
28:41Grandfather, look. It's shining. Dawnkeeper is seven years. They all said it was impossible.
28:48Who are you, really?
28:50Sword myth.
28:52No. The city is full of swordsmiths. But Dawnkeeper, Dawnkeeper knows you.
29:03Let that fire again. First the heat, then the winged hammer signal. Now even soul runes answer to his hammer.
29:13Master, your fire still lives in this world.
29:29That's impossible.
29:52Well, Pyrrhus. Hermon's forge has a rising star now. Working for Master Hermroth now, eh? Must be raking it in.
29:59Him? He's nothing but a common hammerhand. I heard he didn't even qualify for the assessment.
30:04Hammerhand. That's what they called me three years ago. Three years later, nothing's changed.
30:10Five, three shots in!
30:18Two hundred. Done. Last month, my brother took down a two-headed wolf with one of these. Didn't even blink.
30:24Hermann's blades are worth every coin.
30:25You heard the news? Their master Derek forged first light in a single night. Their blades will be going for
30:31five hundred soon.
30:32Move along. Can't afford it. Don't block the window. Look at the state of you. You'll stink my paying customers
30:38right out the door.
30:44Two hundred. Two hundred gold. I thought three years of my life is ten scraps of mine.
30:50Five, starting to not be taken to a market. One million at a time.
31:05The shop on Market Street is still open. Come see it after sunrise. Though you don't sound much like the
31:10merchant there.
31:11After sunrise, I'll be there. Mind if I ask? What business are you opening?
31:17The forge.
31:17The forge.
31:18The forge.
31:50Three years, over a thousand nights like this one.
31:53Nobody knows where these blades come from.
32:13But anyone who swung one knows this much.
32:15They kill monsters.
32:35There's just one thing.
32:37Every single blade carries someone else's name.
32:42Assessment day.
32:44Three years, all riding on this one day.
32:48Master promised he'd put my name forward.
32:57The top honors in this year's open assessment go to...
33:06First light!
33:12That's my sword.
33:15From Hermann's forge.
33:18By...
33:19Gerrick!
33:30A rising star!
33:31Hermann's senior apprentice!
33:33They say he designed and forged the blade in a single night!
33:36A genius!
33:38A single night?
33:40That was three years of my life.
33:42Stand back!
33:43Authorized entrance only.
34:08Master.
34:09That sword and those designs are mine.
34:11You promised to put my name forward.
34:13Three years under my roof.
34:14Every design and blade made here belongs to this forge.
34:17An apprentice holds no mark.
34:18I have the final say.
34:19That's Gid Law.
34:20Pass the fire calling test to mark your name.
34:24But an embolus like you can't even feel forge fire.
34:28You'd shame my name.
34:30Fine.
34:32Then I quit.
34:33Pay me three years' wages.
34:40Three years from your acknowledging and my teaching.
34:43These ten scraps of iron and some of your wages will require generosity.
34:47And you're not needing that.
34:49Drag your board of the 13th layers, J.D. Fulbright.
34:51And finish them in Arkansas.
34:53You're from Master.
34:53Himal.
34:54You'll come now.
34:55I'll make sure that I'm going to sit high.
34:57You're not even too many hearts.
34:58I'll be here.
34:59I'll be here.
35:00I'll be here.
35:03My hand is my hand.
35:10My hand is paid for both.
35:15My hand's you call worthless.
35:16And you've promised me by mark for three years.
35:19Enough.
35:20Thirty blades.
35:21One fortnight.
35:25Ten scraps of iron.
35:27Five.
35:29This is what I start to say.
35:47Well, Pyrrhus, Hermon's forge has a rising star now.
35:50Working for Master Hermroth now, eh?
35:52Must be raking it in.
35:54Him?
35:55He's nothing but a common hammerhand.
35:57I heard he didn't even qualify for the assessment.
35:59Hammerhand.
36:00That's what they called me three years ago.
36:02Three years later, nothing's changed.
36:13200, done.
36:14Last month, my brother took down a two-headed wolf with one of these.
36:17Didn't even blink.
36:18Hermon's blades are worth every coin.
36:20You heard the news?
36:21Their master Derek forged first light in a single night.
36:24Their blades will be going for 500 soon.
36:27Move along.
36:28Can't afford it.
36:29Don't block the window.
36:30Look at the state of you.
36:32You'll stink my paying customers right out the door.
36:39200 gold, the blade.
36:40I fought them.
36:42Three years of my life for ten scraps of iron.
36:45Fine.
36:46Starting tonight, I'm taking it all back.
36:48One blade at a time.
36:59The shop on Market Street.
37:01The shop on Market Street.
37:01Still open.
37:02Come see it after sunrise.
37:04Though you don't sound much like a merchant, lad.
37:06After sunrise, I'll be there.
37:08Mind if I ask?
37:09What business are you opening?
37:11A forge.
37:23You're back.
37:25How did the assessment go?
37:27Fine.
37:29Father, your medicine first.
37:44What is that?
37:46What is that?
37:50Three years.
37:52Up before dawn, scarred head to toe.
37:55And this is what they pay you?
37:56I'll go and have it out with him myself.
38:01Father, don't.
38:02He's not worth it.
38:03These ten scraps, I'm keeping them as what to start with.
38:06I'm going to open my own forge.
38:10Good.
38:11Good.
38:13Those hands of yours were never meant to be buried in another man's back feature.
38:17Your father...
38:28Message from Master Herman.
38:29The forge is to be lit at first light tomorrow.
38:31Thirty blades inspected daily.
38:33Each day's delay will cost you one scrap of iron.
38:35Those were his exact words.
38:37The Master.
38:39The Master is entertaining guests.
38:40His exact words were...
38:42Go tell that grunt.
38:43I'm only the messenger.
38:45Understood.
38:46Go.
39:04Master, do you see?
39:07The boy has grown those hands just like yours.
39:15Today they ground him into the dirt and this useless old servant couldn't protect him.
39:22But I haven't forgotten a single word of what you entrusted to me.
39:28Until the fire wakes, not a soul may know.
39:32Those people, they're still hunting for this hammer, even now.
39:36A little longer, Master.
39:40Let this old servant hide it from you.
39:43Just a few more years.
39:48A grunt.
39:50So for three years, that was all I was to him, not even a name.
39:54Father's medicine.
39:55The shop rent.
39:56Three years of work with someone else's name on it.
39:59Herman.
40:00I'm taking it all back.
40:02Piece by piece.
40:18Mercenaries Hall out the front door.
40:20The Grand Market on your left.
40:22Guard barracks down the street.
40:24Every blade sold in this city passes right here.
40:28Fifteen gold a month.
40:29One year up front.
40:31Cash only.
40:33Sir, I can't put down a coin today.
40:37Give me three months.
40:39Then I will pay a full year's rent with interest.
40:42If I fail, take the shop back and I'll smith for you three months for nothing.
40:47Old Norris.
40:48I'll take this shop.
40:49Sixteen gold a month.
40:51Half a year in cash.
40:52Right here.
41:04Who let this bregger in?
41:05He wants to rent a shop.
41:08The stut on him I can hardly breathe.
41:11Sir.
41:12That reliquium.
41:13How long has it been sealed shut?
41:18Ten years.
41:20It was my late wife's reliquium.
41:23Every lockspice in the city says forcing it open would destroy it.
41:28Why do you ask?
41:56The shop's not for rent.
41:58Not to you.
41:59Take your money chest and go.
42:01Old man!
42:02I'm paying cash!
42:03Money?
42:04I've seen plenty.
42:06A true craftsman.
42:07Precious few.
42:09Three months.
42:10We put it in writing.
42:12And boy, don't prove these old eyes wrong for the first time in my life.
42:18The shop's settled.
42:20Now, time to talk ore with that one-eyed giant.
42:36For ten years, every bar of iron from my building came from my ore.
42:42And now one word, and this filth rolls through my gate.
42:46Master giant, business is business.
42:49My ore was half the price, and Master Herman was already signed and sealed the contract.
42:54Your staff or copper may be fine ore, but it's price-like it.
43:09It's cut with nether-sil.
43:11Blades made from a break at the first touch of monster blood.
43:14Sharp once, broken the next.
43:16Use it for those thirty army blades, trading thirty guardsmen's lives for a few bombs.
43:21I'm I, a grunt who knows so much.
43:24The man who pays asks the price, not how many men die.
43:33Ten years.
43:34You were the one receiving my foreign earnings.
43:36He only ever signed.
43:38He's a boy who didn't come today to run his errands.
43:41I'm opening my own forge.
43:42I cannot put down a single vic.
43:44But I want your finest staff on cotton.
43:46Put it on my account, and I will repay you double.
43:49Men who can look at ore?
43:51This city's full of them.
43:53Men who can listen to it.
43:54In fifty years, I've never met one.
43:56Go on.
43:57Tell me if it's asleep.
44:17Deal.
44:18My best star all copper.
44:21Reserved for you.
44:22Better to deal with you than with your master.
44:27Cyclops' eye never mistakes heat.
44:30Impossible.
44:31That bloodline's fire.
44:33Wasn't it meant to have died out three hundred years ago?
44:52I knew it.
44:54They bought that nether some more.
45:00Master Derek.
45:01The heirloom blade of House Serena.
45:03I ask only that you examine it.
45:05The soul room is broken.
45:06I can pay.
45:08Installments, collateral, and...
45:09You again.
45:10What is this, the seventh time?
45:12Listen well.
45:13A broken soul room.
45:15Hephaegoros himself could step down from Olympus and not mend it.
45:18Sell your fallen house as scrap while it could still buy medicine.
45:22Scrap metal?
45:22When my grandfather carried this sword on the Northern Wall, certain masters here were still
45:27shooing horses.
45:39Well, well, the grunt.
45:41What, come to your senses?
45:43Go on in.
45:43The forge is waiting for you.
45:45Crawl in on your knees.
45:46Master might even toss you a meal.
45:51This sword can still be saved.
45:57You, Mender's soul root.
45:59Something no master smith in the entire guild dares touch.
46:01Ruin the heirloom of a knightly house.
46:03And how will you pay for it?
46:04With your life?
46:05If you trust me, bring it to me in ten days.
46:09If not, forget we ever met.
46:21Seventeen forges.
46:22Three master smiths.
46:23They all said the same thing.
46:24A broken soul rune stays broken.
46:25What makes you different?
46:27They're not wrong.
46:29Once a rune breaks, it cannot be mended.
46:31But your sword?
46:32The rune broke.
46:33The soul did not.
46:35It's still ringing.
46:36When I touched it just now, I felt like it still refused to see.
46:40Which sword do you leave anyway?
46:43In ten days, you'll find it.
46:45East End of Market Street is shot with a black door.
46:48Bring the sword.
46:49You need not beg anyone else again.
47:02Find out who that grant has been meeting to pass two days.
47:06One last thing.
47:08Tell master now.
47:10I found our servant boy for the celebration feast.
47:13Have you come?
47:15But wait on me.
47:16In front of every guild dignitarium.
47:18I will see that you are treated properly.
47:44All this sudden kindness.
47:46They're up to something.
47:48Don't go.
47:49I know they're up to something.
47:50That's exactly why I'm going.
47:52I want to see what he's playing at.
47:54And I need to know how badly Draco's order has been compromised.
48:04Master Hermann's instructions.
48:06Your dignity tonight begins with holding this tray steady.
48:10The man holding the tray hears every word at every table.
48:13Master Hermann's too kind, giving an embolus free food and board for three years.
48:17If you ask me, a dog's a better bargain.
48:19At least a dog guards the door.
48:27God's the stop.
48:28Keep away from the steward.
48:29If that stench reaches him, how will you answer for it?
48:32Thirty-year Cretan vintage.
48:33One sit that's worth half a year of your wages.
48:36Oh wait.
48:37Your wages.
48:38How many scraps of iron was it again?
48:48And now, the successor to First Light.
48:52My own design.
48:54Three-stage tempering.
48:56Twin Ridge binding room.
48:58When it leaves the forge, the world gets another masterpiece.
49:02The third tempering room.
49:04It's drawn backwards.
49:05Forge it from this design and it will shatter the day it leaves the anvil.
49:10Ha ha ha ha!
49:12The serving boy lectures us on tempering rooms?
49:15Hermann, your servants have done quite the entertainment.
49:18Nonsense!
49:19A madman's babble!
49:20Someone take him out!
49:21He's had too much to drink!
49:34I invited you tonight to give you a way out.
49:37I will pretend I never heard what you said.
49:39Finish the order and I'll see to your master and mark.
49:43Three years.
49:44I could recite the speech in my sleep.
49:48I'll think about it.
49:54The Centurion's 30 rune blades, delivered within the fortnight.
50:01Every single one.
50:04My own hand of work.
50:07Your hand of work.
50:08Good.
50:09Then let Centurion Draco inspect your hand of work.
50:12Personally.
50:23That grunt.
50:25Three days.
50:26And he has not answered the crystal once.
50:29The inspection is in a fortnight.
50:32Why worry, master?
50:34Where's he going to run?
50:35He's sick old man's medicine can't skip a day.
50:38By months' end, hunger will have him crawling back to the fortnight.
50:42Come, come.
50:43The goldsmith has set up in the market below.
50:46You have to see this.
50:56Take, gentlemen.
50:58Pure cast gold gemstone, the hour marks 280,000 gold.
51:02The only one on the continent.
51:05280,000?
51:06That's a whole season of the fortnight's earnings.
51:09Master.
51:09But the grunt of words are two minutes and he lays for himself.
51:12He eats scraps of iron, and then...
51:15True enough.
51:16Buy it.
51:16Once the apprentice has learned every trick he knows, out he goes.
51:31Pyrrhus, your license is approved.
51:34Under city statute, the holder may establish a forge, take apprentice, and strike his own maker's mark on his work,
51:41and is fully responsible for it.
51:45Well, isn't this the serving boy from the feast?
51:47The guild license is stones now?
51:49Opening a forge, are you?
51:50What will you make?
51:51Nails?
51:54Nails?
52:06The last man in the city who dares touch this sword, and his workshop has no roof.
52:12Should I feel honored?
52:14The roof comes in three days.
52:16It's not the roof the sword is waiting for, it's the fire.
52:18And you came.
52:19That means you trust me.
52:24Thirty silver.
52:25It's all how Siron can raise.
52:26I know that won't cover it.
52:28Our shop supplies quenching oils and enchanting herbs to every forge in the city.
52:31I can pay you in goods.
52:33Ten years, twenty, I'll repay every coin.
52:45Tell me about it.
52:48Its name is Dawnkeeper.
52:50It was my grandfather's.
52:51A knight's soul-rot blade.
52:53He carried it for twenty years on the Northern War.
52:58They said when the centaur warborn was banned it, Dawnkeeper was always the first light to rise.
53:03Then grandfather fell, and our house fell with him.
53:06Most of the estate is mortgaged.
53:08Everyone told me to melt the sword down for coin.
53:12As long as his sword endures, House Siren has not knout.
53:23Did it just glow?
53:26It never slept.
53:27I told you the rune broke.
53:29Its soul did not.
53:32Put your money away.
53:34I'll take the sword.
53:35If I fail, I'll forge you a new one.
53:36If I succeed, you decide what the work is worth.
53:44The rune runs deep into the steel.
53:46I can't see where it turns.
53:48What the eye can't see, the hand can't mend.
53:51How did they do this three hundred years ago?
54:00Come home.
54:02There's something.
54:03It's time you had it.
54:16Father, your note said you had something for me.
54:21I heard your forge is nearly built.
54:26Almost.
54:27On opening day, I want you to light the first fire.
54:29Good, good.
54:31A smith setting up his own forge needs a hammer of his own.
54:35Not rented, not borrowed, not given.
54:37Handed down.
54:54Wish you a father.
54:56I have kept it for twenty years.
54:58But now, it's going home.
55:01A father.
55:03A father.
55:07No smith ever had clean eyes.
55:09But then,
55:10who are those behind?
55:15No more Christians.
55:17When the fire wakes,
55:19it will tell you.
55:21I have kept it for you.
55:24I have kept it for you.
55:33Just now,
55:34I saw it.
55:37The casting floors in the common part.
55:40The crack inside the door bolt.
55:42Father, this hammer.
55:43There's a spirit in it.
55:45It woke.
55:47It woke.
55:49That's all that matters.
55:55Take these,
55:56and start your forge.
55:58Go.
55:59Light your fire.
56:07Master,
56:09the hammer is home.
56:10The road ahead is his now.
56:31So that's how the room closes.
56:53The coin isn't enough.
56:56I cannot take this coin.
56:58The copper is a gift.
57:00Something for your first fire.
57:03I can't accept that.
57:04We agreed to put it on my account.
57:05Take it.
57:08Go forge your sword tonight, boy.
57:10Some debts are not measured in coin.
57:31Tonight,
57:32I re-forged Dawnkeeper.
57:34You should be here.
57:35This sword is your family's soul.
57:36What?
57:42Oh,
57:44I know.
57:49So,
58:16Grandfather, look.
58:18It's shining.
58:18Dawnkeeper is seven years.
58:20They all said it was impossible.
58:22Who are you, really?
58:25A sword myth.
58:26No.
58:27The city is full of swordsmiths.
58:29But Dawnkeeper, Dawnkeeper knows you.
58:38Let fire again.
58:40First of all, then the winged hammer simmer.
58:44Now even Saul's answer to his hammer.
58:47Master, your fire still moves in this world.
59:03It's impossible.
59:05I did.
59:07To learn more soon.
59:08That's the right step.
59:09I'm sorry.
59:09I'm sorry.
59:11I'm sorry.
59:12I'm sorry.
59:12I'm sorry.
59:12You
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