Arken Rok

Arken was born to a small mining family towards the northern end of the Dwarven empire in the year 518WR
From a young age he was focused on the process of turning good iron and steel into finely crafted Dwarven arms and armours, but his rural birth and less than affluent family made it hard for Arken to study the craft of the blacksmith.
Eventually Arken set out from his home with a cart of good steel, his hammer, and an anvil, and rode for the dwarven capital. He refused to accept what he had been told, that he would amount to a smith of no great stature, that his iron was weak and his steel brittle. He refused to accept that a dwarf could only rise to greatness from wealth and power and set his sights on becoming the personal blacksmith to the Hammerbearer.
Arken arrived at the capital only to find more derision and dismissal from these citybred dwarves. Each time he petitioned a blacksmith to train him, he was laughed out of their shop. Alone, poor, with no friends or family to tend to, Arken did the only thing he knew how to do.
He left the city, and spent a few days in the wilderness, collecting wood, and constructing a great set of bellows. Once he had built this himself, he gathered clay from the nearby beaches, and crafted himself a large kiln, and returned to town to set up in the city square, his cart creaking now under the weight of a full load.
He set up his kiln near a well, and attached his bellows. He stacked the wood he had gathered nearby, and built a large roaring fire inside his kiln, and he started to forge.
On that first day, people stopped to smirk and watch this poor, deluded rural dwarf, trying to forge dwarven steel out in the open, with nothing but a hammer and some tongs he had made himself.
On the fifth day, children started to bring him more wood, as what he had gathered had started to run low. Still he toiled.
On the 11th day, the growing piles of swords at Arken's feet started to worry the city guards.
On the 27th day, the Hammerbearer himself came down, to watch a smith pounding away at this small anvil, making swords, hammers, and axes. He inspected some of the work himself. It was passable, as best. It had no skill, no finesse. But the Hammerbearer realised that this was a dwarf who would work without sleep, without food, drinking water from a well, and still crafting weapons just as serviceable now as when he was fresh, and promptly appointed him an apprenticeship with his own.
Arken spent years perfecting his craft, growing steadily in skill and knowledge of the smithing arts, eventually having a family of his own.
It wasn't until 674 that Arken started his most important work. A stranger had provided the Hammerbearer with a peice of metal from beyond the stars, and in turn this was give to Arken, to craft three weapons of power - a Hammer, a Spear, and a Sword. These weapons were given to the three generals of the Hammerbearer in turn.
It took a year to complete these pieces. It took another year for the generals to rent the land in civil war, empowered and twisted by the weapon's power.

Year of Birth

392 WR 483 Years old