#fabron

Among Fabron's people, what class of mage you would be is determined around the age of 12. At that time, you are put through a series of tests to ascertain what your strongest attributes are. For Fabron, his were in metal bending and medicine. Although he wanted to be a healer, there were already those in his class who were more adept at healing, so he was moved into the metalsmith category. One of his mentors at the time instructed him to think of the pieces he created as being a type of preventative medicine. He was keeping the soldiers of their people from requiring the services of the healers, and the better he got at crafting the armor, the better protected the soldiers would be.

From then on Fabron studied all of his material hard. His goal was to become the best metalsmith that his people had ever seen. He would create and test many pieces, putting them through his own series of tests to see if they would survive. Even those pieces that were considered quality by the military were often considered inferior to Fabron. It was because of this that it was in no short time that he was the favored metalsmith of many of the elite guard.

It was several years after he had been working as a metalsmith to the army that Fabron suffered his first loss of a soldier. To this day he is not sure what was different about the way he wove and enchanted the helm for the soldier. What he missed or forgot when doing the work. Maybe he had been distracted, or the metal had been inferior and he missed it. In the end, it didn't matter what had been the issues, the soldier still perished in a violent and bloody battle.

While none of those who owned any of Fabron's armor doubted him, nor did any of those who were in queue to obtain armor from him. However, Fabron still felt the failure deep within his soul and from then forward, he would pour more of himself into each piece that he wove. More enchantments, more focus, more craftsmanship of all kinds. Also, before any piece was given to the soldier who would bear it, Fabron would test it personally, putting it through tests that even in battle it would not face. Only those pieces who passed would ever be given to a soldier. One loss was one too many for the metalsmith.

-armor is from various royal collection of Europe dating from 1500-1700A.D.

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