Cassiterides Bone

****C******assiterides Bone**, also known as **Jonas Forgeron**, is a tin peddler; one of the original Yankee Peddlers.

## Biography

### *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book*

Reever told a story about Yankee Peddlers. After the arrival of Alphonsus Lung the clockmaker, Cassiterides Bone came into the town, and set out his tin-selling wagon. Soon after, Ignis Blister and Drogam Nerve also arrived. Bone, Lung, and Blister examined Nerve's wares, which were catalogs from which things could be ordered, seeming skeptical. The people of the town received word that invaders would arrive soon, and each peddler tried to sell their wares to help the town defend themselves. Nerve won out, suggesting a design that would turn the city into a trap, and components were bought from each peddler to finish the device. At the end, however, the townspeople realized they had no mainspring, and took Lung's suggestion to make it out of whalebone instead of steel, and used his timepieces to count down to when the trap would spring, but it never did.

### *Bluecrowne*

Swifte told Trigemine that he was staying with Forgeron, a name Blister recognized. Blister later went to get some rope to bind Xiaoming, from Forgeron, who he said owed him a favor. When Trigemine asked who this was, Blister noted that he'd told Trigemine Forgeron's proper name before: Cassiterides Bone.

After Trigemine and Blister kidnapped Liao and told Lucy that the price to have him back was the Albatross, Lucy went to where Swifte was staying to get it, Forgeron's shop. It was in the Quayside Harbors in Holloware Row, and she found it with Trigemine's directions. She made a distraction to get in, but the person who came out, from Trigemine's description, she deduced must be Forgeron, not Swifte. The Ironmonger did indeed catch Lucy trying to break in, and when Forgeron returned, having dealt with Lucy's distraction, he commented on how low it was to send children to get the knife.

Lucy and Jianming Cerrajero, who'd met her before, filled Forgeron in on many things that were happening, such as this being the ransom or Liao. Forgeron wondered why Lucy had been sent (not seeming to know much about letters-of-marque, to Lucy's annoyance), and deduced that Liao had been taken because he was a conflagrationeer. He seemed unsurprised that Liao had been taken by Blister, who, it seemed, he didn't like. He and Lucy introduced themselves to each other.

Forgeron told Lucy that Trigemine wouldn't give Liao back, even if Lucy gave him the knife. He explained who Morvengarde was and how terrible roaming-world sutlers like Trigemine could be. He knew how seriously they were taking this deal, though he'd made promises, he said, that made it so he could not tell Lucy (something Cerrajero and Lucy both found odd). Forgeron continued to impress upon her that Trigemine and Blister were wicked and wouldn't honor the bargain. Lucy left, apologizing for breaking Forgeron's window, which he did not seem very bothered by. Forgeron, however, remembering something, kept her back and had the Ironmonger give her something to take apart rope. Forgeron, Swifte, and Cerrajero watched Lucy leave, and wondered what chance she had. When Simon Coffrett arrived, Forgeron showed contempt for him, disliking Jumpers, and wasn't sure that Lucy could win. During the battle, Blister used Forgeron's rope to bind Xiaoming, and Lucy used the Ironmonger's knife to take it apart.

## Physical appearance

Jonas Forgeron has gray hair and sideburns, and is described as old. His hands are burn-scarred.