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+===== The Secret of Steel =====
-{{tag>metal info}}
+The secret of dwarven steel is held by three clans: the [[#Firefist Clan]], the [[#Deephammer Clan]], and the [[#Ironblood Clan]]. None of the clans know all of the secrets, each only knows their part in the creation. They guard these secrets jealously from all others, including their own kin. The clans work in secret from each other.
+Once a piece passes final inspection it is auctioned to one of the dwarven merchant clans, the coin from the auction is divided equally among the secret holder clans. These clans work continuously not just manufacturing dwarven steel, but in guarding its secrets and researching new materials and techniques.
+==== Firefist Clan ====
+The [[orgs:Firefist Clan]] holds the secret of the forging. Only select forge masters of the clan know the secrets of the fuel and forge used to craft dwarven steel. The dwarves guard each forge with a score or more veteran warriors when banked. The forges are never allowed to go cold; otherwise the clan destroys them and rebuilds another. It believed by outsiders than once built and heated up it changes. The clan is constantly bringing woods from the surface into their storage rooms along with coal and other materials from deep within their mines. It is known only to the clans what is subterfuge and what is really important to the forge or what else is added while the fire is building.
+When the Firefist clan destroys or builds a new forge no other dwarf is allowed in the chamber. Several families within the clan digs out the necessary space, then other families construct the forge. These extended families are the only ones within the clan and known and can build the forges. Once constructed only a few members will return to see that the forges are still intact and that no part has been removed. Every shovel, bellows, and stoker must be accounted for during each inspection.
+==== Ironblood Clan ====
+The [[orgs:Ironblood Clan]] is the only clan that knows the materials that go into the metal to be forged. Their families of chemists and metallurgists accept only the most skilled dwarves of their clan into their ranks. These are not families by immediate blood, but instead families of skill and sacred rites. Each family guards its sacred compositions even from other families within the clan. Complex tomes encoded in ciphers, oral traditions, and hidden flaws and double-meanings serve to keep the exact blend a secret.
+==== Deephammer Clan ====
+The [[orgs:Deephammer clan]] holds the secrets of folding, beating, and quenching the molten metal. Their craftsmen are only allowed into the chamber once the metal is ready to be worked. Unlike the other clans, the number of dwarves who know the secrets of the forging is spread more widely among the families. Instead, it is the manufacture of the tools, molds, and quenching chemicals that remain the secret of the family elders. No normal mold can contain the molten metal that is poured from the crucibles, no grindstone can put an edge on a forged blade, no masterwork hammer can survive the beating required to shape the metal. Even the slightest difference in the dozens of quenching buckets, some used only once, could fracture the metal.
+{{tag>metal material info dwarf}}