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Inside a stone building, a round forge with its fire lit and a workbench take up the right edge of the image. Barely visible in the lower foreground, brick steps form a riser at the end of the worktable closest to the forge. The forge is made of light-colored stone, bricks on the lower section and a smooth single piece forming the hood. A closed grate curves along the front of the lower section, allowing air to feed into the base of the forge. On the wide stone lip of the forge's hearth, a blacksmith's hammer and a rough horseshoe await the return of the blacksmith.
  The far wall from the viewer has two windows. The upper window is huge, but not much of it is visible here. It is a triangle, with a black spiderweb pattern made of black metal centered in it. Each segment of glass between the portions of spiderweb is a frostyy blue-white color, letting light in but not a clear view of the sky.
  The lower window is perhaps half to two thirds the size of the upper window. It is square, with a kaleidoscope pattern to its stained glass pieces. The pattern is definitely different than in other images of this same blacksmithy shop. Right now, the glass is pink and blue and green and purple and a beige so pale it is almost white, all forming a concentric series of diamonds. The square window gives the impression that the kaleidoscope could turn, moving the pieces and changing the colors, at any given second.
  In the building corner left of the square window, an anvil rests atop a round wood stump cut only a few inches above the red earth. The stump and the anvil might be glowing very slightly -- not the red glow of heat, but the white light of something unworldly or supernatural. A doorway-sized ornate stone carving in the wall might be ventilation (except that it was not visible from the outside) or a sound baffle. Or it might simply be art for art's sake. It is extremely clean, peach-colored stone, with no dust or cobwebs or anything on any of the many carved surfaces.
  Closer to the viewer, and blocking some view of the stone carving, is a simple workbench with a rack of tools hanging on the wall above it. Most of the tools are completely made of the same unpolished metal. The tools quickly identifiable include pliers, pincers, chisels, and wrenches. Some spaces are open where tools have been removed from their assigned hooks. The workbench has a ball-peen hammer and a horseshoe laying on it as if someone only stepped away for a moment. Stones or maybe gray bricks have been assembled into a set of stairs under the far end of the workbench so that a much shorter person does not have to dig out a stepstool in order to work comfortably.
  Two more horseshoes, finished and ready for use, hang on the wall nearby.
  Between the viewer and the workbench are a water barrel with rippling water visible close to the top, and a Japanese-style fire brazier standing up on its tripod legs. The fuel in the metal bowl-shaped cage atop the tripod is burning much more orange than the forge.

World
Legends of Elohey
Owner
Jarissa
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Artist
Jarissa Venters

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