The smiths at Bloodbrow forge. Carmine Bloodbrow and her apprentice/nephew Bevel Bronzebelly. Carmine is married to her forge, and has become a famous master smith, while bevel comes from a jeweler line, he wanted to be a knight, but was forbidden to do so. Eventually he used his skills as a jeweler and ladies man to ‘impress’ the ladies of the high courts until he found himself in the bed with a married woman and was banished and goes to his auntie for an apprenticeship. He’s lived with Carmine off and on over his whole life , as the youngest of 12 his parents sent him away for Carmine to raise until they’d call him back and he’d always go, seeking their love until he realizes he’s spent most of his life with auntie Carmine rather than his birth parents. Bevel takes a vow to be more virtuous and knightly and begins pursuing his dream of knighthood.
Carmine kinda refuses to acknowledge that she’s really Bevel’s parental figure, having decided to give up marriage, children, etc in pursuit of her work along with that fact that she took bevel in very young and raised him as a baby. They are technically cousins, woth bevels parent being her fathers sibling, buuuuut it don’t matter.
They leave home to search for their family member, Whiskey Grey, an eccentric monster hunter who is missing.
