Ironworks ~ Ziya

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{ IC- Knight Terrogate, Artifex of Tollere, IronBorn }

~\*~ IronWorks, LLC. Purchase Order~\*~

Construction of a cuirass for Apprentice Ziyal Moya of Tollere.

Construction Materials: 60:40 Drasteel / Chromium alloy, Ruusan copper detailing, bull rancore leather.

Iron knight Terrogate, Artifex of Tollere steps into the IronWorks Forge to begin the process of completing this order of his iron sisters cuirass armour.

It was to be in addition to her current leather nightsister light armour, but still... It was to be a challenging build for the Cathar.

Moving to the back of the forge, the Cathar Knight puts on his heat apron and smithing gloves. From the store room he collects the durasteel, Russan copper and chromium ingots pre-ordered and delivered earlier in the day then trolleys them into the main forge workshop.

It had been decided that the apprentice hunters breastplates would be a combination of durasteel and chromium for the metal plating, to give a polished look while both keeping the durability required, and keeping within the approval band of her level.

Once the durasteel and chromium metal ingots were separated from their crates and the forges fire now roaring, the metals were heated down in large crucibles to the point where they became liquid. Removing the flak after adding flux powder to ensure the purity of the metal the knight then poured them together, combining the metal creating the alloy mix 60/40 ratio of durasteel and chromium.

Once this step was completed the metal was poured into the several prefabricated molds shaped to the base designs of the several pieces of the plating. The width and length were only a rough size but the volume of the alloy matched the required amount for the plate's construction.

Once the alloy for the plates cooled in the larger open moulds they took the rough shape of the plates required although still needing a lot of work. Terrogate made sure the moulds and the plans numbers matched, there were many parts to this cuirass and it would be easy to get confused which piece goes where especially with the smaller shoulder plates, when the leather finally arrives that was..

Terrogate then uses the over the forge fire crucible to melt the Russan copper. He melts a decent quantity of it and, along with the a small amount of alloy he still had melted on the fire fills the several dozen premade sandbox molds. These would be for buckles, eyelets, decorative strips, trimms and general fixings to get the required astetically pleasing result come the finish.

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A day later

The Cathar apprentice in the morning finally receives the rancore leather he had ordered a week ago from his supplier which was now several days late. Although given the nature of the group known as the Black Hand he had purchased it from,Terrogate decided to just let the matter go and thanked the man delivering it, tipping him 40 credits for his service.

The Cathar warrior then boils, stretches,dries, oils and hangs the cured leather in preparation for use. He then also takes the 6 largest plates of steel and cycles them through a total of 30 repetitions of the heating, folding and cooling process to drastically increase the durability of the steel.

Terrogate then goes to work fashioning, hammering, folding, shaping and finally highly polishing the metal plating, buckles, eyelets, and decorative Ruusan copper detailing into their desired shapes and designs in readiness of the final construction and finalising the rancore leather strapping and belts.

The muscular Cathar warrior spends 4 days, allowing a full 10 hours each day for the complex pieces. For a Cuirass the work was long and there were many smaller decorative pieces that took a lot of time to get to his desired standard of quality. But the Artifex didn't mind, this order after all was for a fellow Ironborn.. The finished product needed to reflect both the individual but in this case also the splendor of their mighty house, and it was in that spirit that Zeyal had also requested a House Tollere Iron eagle to be embossed into the front of the armour. A wonderful idea, and one that filled the Cathar with pride in the Iron apprentice.

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On the end of the 5th day, Iron Knight Terrogate finally finishes stamping in the remaining studs for the cured leather and assembling the Cuirass for Apprentice Ziyal.

Terrogate stood back after setting the embossed eagle into the plates and looked at the finished product.  He was very happy with the work, the finished results were perfect to specs......  but he was still not completely satisfied. There was something missing… the armour needed, in Cathar's opinion, something to identify it as Ziyals.. Something personal. And so the Cathar decided to call up his fellow ironborn on the house secure comlink and have a brief discussion about it.

In only a few minutes time Terrogate walks back into the Forge where the Cuirass was waiting for him with his smith gloves on once more. He moves to the melting station and he picks up a white hot poker from the forge's main fire. Ziyal had given him her idea..

With the point of the hot poker, Terrogate carefully inscribes a symbol onto the prominent Rancore leather belt that ran over the chest of the Cuirass.. A rune symbol of the Huntress. Placing the poker back he then hand polishes the armour once more giving it an impeccable shine.

There….. NOW it was perfect.

~ End RP ~