Weapon Smith

It may often be time-consuming and seem insignificant to build such weapons when factories can build them at a faster rate, but they lack the heart and soul put into them while the weapons we build with our own two hands will prove themselves capable in battle. - Master Weapon Smith

In ancient times, weapon smiths were found everywhere forging and creating weapons for anyone who need them, but as the eras went on their need was no longer needed as factories would build things much faster than they could. However, they still exist today in places such as the Kingdom of Van Carno and Gear Nation still use them to build more unique weapons for people to want them. But by today's standard, that means little with those remaining being a dying breed that will eventually die out completely.

Career

Qualifications

One must take an apprenticeship under a weapon smith in order to become one with prior knowledge in smithing beforehand.

Payment & Reimbursement

A weapon smith can be paid handsomely for their services in creating custom weapons for their clients with many being paid the amount that the weapons it is worth in many credits.

Perception

Purpose

The goal of all weapons smiths is to dedicate their trade to the building of weapons and making them for people who wish to purchase them. These can be your standard melee weapons from swords to maces to more complex such as a firearm that pack more punch to them.

Social Status

Weapon Smiths are often considered an outdated means of creating weapons due to the technological advances of today with few people still maintaining the occupation at all.

History

Builders of War

Since the day of old, there have been wars fought by men, but these men need weapons to fight them. Enter the Weapons Smith, an individual dedicated to creating said weapons for anyone willing to buy whatever they make. These were the glory days for smiths as there was no other way to make them. Leading to thousands being employed at a time to equip armies for battle. Somewhere better good at the craft and then there were who made the greatest of weapons, most of them being used by some famous individual or hero. For thousands of years, this would go on and the profession flourished from it, but like all good things they eventually come to an end.

Fading with Progress

One day everything changes when some esteemed intellectual comes up with an idea that's going to make things easier, that being a machine that does most of the work at a faster rate. That might seem intimating to a smith, but they can't beat the quality of a hand-forged weapon and they go back to work. Go forward a few thousand years and more of these machines exist, but they are more sophisticated and make things a lot cheaper, and have better quality. Now weapon smiths have a problem that is out-competing them in every way. Resulting in many being unable to maintain their smithies and being forced to close down so that fewer people want to buy from them. Now there are only a few left that have to adapt to new technology to survive and prove their skills in crafting with places that still allow you to work the old fashion way. Making it all the rare to see a weapon smith nowadays as they become an obsolete occupation.

Operations

Tools

Smithing Tools: Certain tools are needed to shape and mold the weapon to the proper size and to make it strong.
Forge: The fire of the forge ensures that the metal to not enough to shape and aids in removing impurities to strengthen the metal.
Smithing Machinery : More modern machines are used to make the forging process much easier and shorten the time to make weapons.

Materials

Smith will need all types of metal that can be used to create weapons, along with electronics, energy emitter, and other modern things should weapons need an enhancement.

Workplace

Weapon Smithy: A specialized smithy designed for the crafting of weapons filled with tools and machinery, as well as a forge to craft the metal and transform them into fine weapons.

Dangers & Hazards

Creating weapons can be a dangerous job if a smith is not careful about protecting themselves, wearing all of the proper safety gear, and ensuring that their machinery is properly maintained and not left on after use. Those that are not careful often suffer burns, cuts, severed appendages, crushed bones, blindness, and presumably death.

Alternative Names

Weapon Forger

Type

Industrial

Demand

Low

Legality

Weapon Smith may maintain their craft so long as they follow rules about creating certain types of weapons and having a license to who they are allowed to sell said weapons.

Strength of Craft

by midjourney

Though we may be the last of remnants of a craft that has long been abandoned, we remain a reminder that long before machines built what was needed, it was smiths such as us that created weapons through sheer skill and placing our will into it that made them strong. - Experienced Smith

Despite not being needed anymore, weapons smiths are still considered highly skilled in their craft as they have been forced to improve the craft of making weapons that keep them in the game. Learning everything from new methods of smelting to more advanced machinery to use in building weapons. Putting in all the time and effort that they can to ensuring that it is of fine quality so that it may serve its purpose for the one who wields it in battle. It is something that is not seen that much when everything is assembled through machinery as they only serve create quantity over quality.