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Characters Featured Here:
Antares Mai Quyen (they/them) - Knight and hunter #bear knight bear hunter
Miriam Hashmi (she/her) - Mage and scholar #myelin scholar
Loi Bellevance (he/him) - Bladesmith #fellow of cicatrixes
Everyone has verses in the Dark Souls series and Bloodborne. Characters and verses will be tagged accordingly. You may check out their biographies for more information if you wish.
The iron hand of Götz von Berlichingen (1480-1562), a knight and mercenary who lost his right arm in a siege [640×360]
points about this -it was shot off by a cannon -he continued being a knight for over 40 years after getting the iron hand -it was delicate enough he could still write with a quill using it, which is important as he was described as a ‘warrior poet’ -after a merchant-punching life suitable for an elder scrolls protagonist he was outlawed by the holy roman empire, friends of his used a high diplomacy roll and a bribe to get him out, and he then almost immediately kidnapped a bishop -after outlaw of the holy roman empire 2 electric boogaloo was placed under house arrest in a castle he had purchased with all his quest rewards to spend the next 20 years drunk off his ass
I can’t believe you’d make this post and not mention that his poetry contains the first known usage of the phrase “lick my ass”
Proper introductions are in order, yes? Yes.
Elden ring Pest character - Open - Non-selective - 18+
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(Rbing this because I'm looking for more people to follow! I'm super out of the loop rp wise bc its been so long. It'll be from my main)
Those evenings when the hills sang with voices like bells // Part 42
October 9th, 2022
Flore pittoresque : croquis d'après nature - Eduard Müller - 1872 - via Internet Archive
Hey! Are there blacksmiths in your story? I'm a hobbyist blacksmith and I'm here to help!
Blacksmithing is one of those things that a lot of people get wrong because they don't realize it stuck around past the advent of the assembly line. Here's a list of some common misconceptions I see and what to do instead!
Not all blacksmiths are gigantic terrifying muscly guys with beards and deep voices. I am 5'8, skinny as a twig, have the muscle mass of wet bread, and exist on Tumblr. Anybody who is strong enough to pick up a hammer and understands fire safety can be a blacksmith.
You can make more than just swords with blacksmithing. Though swords are undeniably practical, they're not the only things that can be made. I've made candle holders, wall hooks, kebab skewers, fire pokers, and more. Look up things other people have made, it's really amazing what can be done.
"Red-hot" is actually not that hot by blacksmith terms. when heated up, the metal goes from black, to red, to orange, to yellow, to white. (for temperature reference, I got a second degree burn from picking up a piece of metal on black heat) The ideal color to work with the metal is yellow. White is not ideal at all, because the metal starts sparking and gets all weird and lumpy when it cools. (At no point in this process does the metal get even close to melting. It gets soft enough to work with, but I have never once seen metal become a liquid.)
Blacksmithing takes fucking forever. Not even taking into account starting the forge, selecting and preparing metal, etc. etc. it takes me around an hour to make one (1) fancy skewer. The metals blacksmiths work with heat up and cool down incredibly fast. When the forge is going good, it only takes like 20 seconds to get your metal hot enough to work with, but it takes about the same time for it to cool down, sometimes even less.
As long as you are careful, it is actually stupidly easy to not get hurt while blacksmithing. When I picked up this hobby I was like "okay, cool! I'm gonna make stuff, and I'm gonna end up in the hospital at some point!" Thus far, the latter has yet to occur. I've been doing this for nearly a year. I have earned myself a new scar from the aforementioned second degree burn, and one singe mark on my jeans. I don't even wear gloves half the time. Literally just eye protection, common sense, and fast reflexes and you'll probably be fine. (Accidents still happen of course, but I have found adequate safety weirdly easy to achieve with this hobby)
A forge is not a fire. The forge is the thing blacksmiths put their metal in to heat it up. It starts as a small fire, usually with newspaper or something else that's relatively small and burns easily, which we then put in the forge itself, which is sort of a fireplace-esque thing (there's a lot of different types of forge, look into it and try to figure out what sort of forge would make the most sense for the context you're writing about) and we cover it with coal, which then catches fire and heats up. The forge gets really hot, and sometimes really bright. Sometimes when I stare at the forge for too long it's like staring into the sun. The forge is also not a waterfall of lava, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.
Welding and blacksmithing are not the same thing. They often go hand-in-hand, but you cannot connected two pieces of metal with traditional blacksmithing alone. There is something called forge welding, where you heat your metal, sprinkle borax (or the in-universe equivalent) on it to prevent the metal from oxidizing/being non-weldable, and hammer the pieces together very quickly. Forge welding also sends sparks flying everywhere, and if you're working in a small space with other blacksmiths, you usually want to announce that you're welding before you do, so that everyone in a five-foot radius can get out of that five-foot radius. You also cannot just stuck some random pebbles into the forge and get a decent piece of metal that you can actually make something with, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.
Anvils are really fucking heavy. Nothing else to add here.
Making jewelry is not a blacksmithing thing unless you want jewelry made of steel. And it will be very ugly if you try. Blacksmithing wasn't invented to make small things.
If there's anything here I didn't mention, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.
I love it when experts/hobbyists share their wisdom with writers. Thank you, @soy-sauce-and-mothra!
As they mentioned, blacksmiths don't work on delicate jewellery. But there are smiths that do. When I went to double check the terminology, I found all sorts of smiths that could be useful for your stories.
A blacksmith works with iron and steel (this is what is usually meant when referring just to "smith"). A farrier is a type of blacksmith who specializes in making and fitting horseshoes.
A bladesmith forges knives, swords, and other blades.
A brownsmith works with brass and copper.[3][citation needed]
A coinsmith works strictly with coins and currency.
A coppersmith works with copper.
A goldsmith works with gold.
A gunsmith builds and repairs firearms.
An armourer working in an armoury maintaining and repairing small weapons traditionally had some duties of a gunsmith.
A locksmith works with locks.
A metalsmith works with all kinds of metals.
A silversmith, or brightsmith, works with silver.
A swordsmith is a bladesmith who forges only swords.
An arrowsmith is a blacksmith who specialises in forging arrowheads.
A tinsmith, tinner, or tinker works with light metal (such as tinware) and can refer to someone who deals in tinware.
A weaponsmith is a generalized bladesmith who forges weapons like axes, spears, flails, and other weapons.
A whitesmith works with white metal (tin and pewter) and can refer to someone who polishes or finishes the metal rather than forging it.
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Tried for a twist on the classic art history trope of the bather :)
The Failed Evacuation and Protection of Yharnam
We’ve all seen how much of a mess Central Yharnam is. The destroyed carriages, the heaps of luggage, horse corpses and dozens of caskets littering the streets. The clear signs of a town that has lost hope of trying to get out with their lives and resigned themselves to wasting away indoors and waiting to see if whoever remains can get rid of the beasts. But a big question is why are all these things strewn about in the first place?
For the longest time, my belief has been that at some point before the beginning of the game, the common Yharnamites realised how deep in trouble they truly were and decided to make an evacuation attempt. Even with their addiction to the blood and years of indoctrination by Healing Church propaganda, the constant deaths and nights of beasts flooding the streets became too much and people realised that they needed to get out
Families packing up their belongings and leaving them ready to be picked up by any carriages out that might’ve had space. People on the upper levels working together to help get their stuff down to the main roads so they weren’t left behind. And of course the most important part of all; bottling up as much of that sweet siren song as they could because why would you risk leaving the best thing in your life behind when you’ve clearly got the space for it? These people were ready to go, they had accepted they would have to uproot their lives and leave their homes behind in order to escape the nightmare that their beloved Yharnam had become
But evidently it didn’t work. Some people might have managed to escape if they were lucky enough to be part of the first waves, but the vast majority didn’t
Whether they just weren’t fast enough or they decided too late to try and get out, the presence of the beasts became too overwhelming for it to be safe to make any further attempts. Those beginning to lose themselves to the transformation would also have been a contributing factor, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some had ended up turning on their loved ones in the middle of trying to leave. Hence resulting in everything needing to be ditched immediately to allow a chance for the people to safely get back into their houses
For the survivors, the only thing left they could do was try and protect themselves, try and reduce numbers and continue to do some form of cleanup
While I’m sure at least some of these structures were already part of Yharnam’s architecture, such as the larger gates on the underside of the Great Bridge, I’m more inclined to believe the smaller gates and ladder mechanisms were added later on in an attempt to try and at least make it more difficult for the beasts to spread further. Segmenting parts of Yharnam would make daytime cleanup easier as the hunters could deal with a single section at a time and making sure it was absolutely safe before moving onto the next
The ladders could be used as a main way to reach the upper streets since the pathways and stairs leading up would most likely have to be blocked off in one way or another. It wouldn’t stop the beasts that are capable of scaling the blockades or even the ones that figured out how to climb the outsides of the buildings, but it would at least slow them down enough that only a couple would be able to get through at a time and could be easily dealt with
Eventually it all kept degrading to the point we find it in. Beasthood kept advancing in those who patrolled the streets to keep them clean and it resulted in those closed off parts never becoming safe enough to open up again. They built their pyres and continued to lose themselves as they, perhaps instinctively, walked the paths they had when they were still lucid, cutting down whoever they didn’t recognise
It’s a shame because these methods of protection were actually working to a degree. It’s not even because what they put in place was poorly built, since we know that heavy reinforced door is more than enough to keep the brick troll huntsman from getting through even with all his pounding. They just didn’t put any of it in place fast enough, or implement enough of it, and it played a part in their downfall
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Cadence and Cascade - King Crimson
He's right to be proud of his work. A clean cut from a sharp blade heals better than a jagged wound from a dull blade.
{{I might retcon Bel and Gwynfor’s relationship in Hyalus to be that of friends with benefits. They’ve known each other since childhood and consequently know each other the best of their general group of peers. But, as much as they like each other, their current schedules leave them incredibly busy and lacking time for any sort of serious relationship. So whenever they meet in person, they catch up in various sorts of ways (including in bed).
Both men have probably had other casual partners as well, Bel less so than Gwynfor. He is very focused on his blacksmithing work more than anything. But it’s good to let off steam from time to time.}}
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