THE LIBRARY · THE VALE
A Smith's Primer
aka Harvald's Notes
A frontier smith's working notes on iron, temper, and what the wilds will and won't forgive in a blade.
Iron forgives a lazy man twice and kills him the third time. Quench too hot and the edge is glass; too cold and it folds like wet bread. The ash here eats steel — oil your blade nightly or bury it clean. A good cuirass is not the one that turns every blow, but the one you can still run in after the third hour. Remember it.
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- →Valenfeld — Harvald's working notes, left open on the anvil-bench of the Valenfeld forge for any apprentice fool enough to read them.
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- →The Marrow Lances — Field-gear wisdom — 'the cuirass you can still run in after the third hour' — that the free company lives or dies by.
- →The Oathblade — The mundane craft's reverent nod to the one blade it can never equal — the Oathblade is passed hand to hand, never forged anew.
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