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| ==== Ironblood Clan ==== | ==== Ironblood Clan ==== | ||
| - | The [[atlas: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. | + | 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 ==== | ==== Deephammer Clan ==== | ||
| - | The [[atlas: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. | + | 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. |
