You were sold into an apprenticeship with a blacksmith (either by your parents, or by your own choice). Watching your master work, helping him with tasks such as heating, hammering, and welding metal, you have already gained a basic knowledge of how metals are forged. You have been put in charge of maintaining the tools and the workshop, and you've begun to collect your own tools. You have gained hands-on experience, and you're able to create the most basic functional and artistic metal objects. You know the intricacies of weapon and armor forging, but you've not done enough of that type of work to be proficient with it. You can sharpen a sword with varying success, but you are learning. You can shoe a horse, or repair a plow blade, and you have started to develop an eye for the quality of weapons and armor.
- Feat: Crafter
- Skill Proficiencies: Athletics and either Perception or Investigation
- Tool Proficiencies: Smith's Tools
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: Smith's Tools
You can light and maintain roaring fires with ease, arranging materials to concentrate the heat as if it were a forge. You may spend an hour to create a makeshift forge while only using twice the materials needed to fuel a regular campfire.
You can also assess the quality and value of a non magical metal object and know how to care for and maintain such items (protecting them from corroding, breakage, repairing damage, etc). You know the general value of these items, and to whom they would most likely be sold to.
The knowledge you have gained through your apprenticeship gives you an edge when speaking with other blacksmiths. Your master may be known to other smiths, depending on how far from home you have traveled.
Suggested Characteristics
Life by the forge leaves its mark. Metalworkers are often toughened and hardy from their craft but must maintain a level of sociability in order to sell their wares. Blacksmiths are seen as people with hard personalities, but like the metal which they work, they can be soft under the right conditions. Some blacksmiths have sweet or even soft-natured personality traits, you just have to get to know them.
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