Brox'gar Blazehatchet

Brox'gar and his brothers were raised by the forge, their father made sure of that.  From the time each of the boys could walk, they would be required to apprentice under their father for so many hours every day.  Their fathers armor shop, The Blazing Anvil, was in the heart of the Stormloft market and known throughout the realm.  The shop was nothing more than elevated stone slab with a huge forge in the center and a roof held up by stone pillars.  Surrounding the forge were multiple anvils and workstations where Krun'gar, his sons, and his apprentices forged all throughout the day.  Hanging at the highest center-point in the shop above the forge was a Dwarvish battleaxe with two axes in flames marked on the side of its head.  Krun'gar also branded all of his own works with this same symbol, the Blazehatchet symbol would come to be regarded as a symbol of the highest quality of dwarven forgework.  Each of Brox'gars brothers took to smithing almost instantly.  Even in the begining with the most basic of metalwork his brothers excelled and showed extreme prowess, but not Brox'gar.  Brox'gar was not as well-built as his older brothers and struggled with working the metal on the anvil.  Brox'gar's missing eye caused him a great deal of problems with depth perception and this would also attribute to his lagging behind his brothers.  Before each of his brothers would be known as men, they would be known as great smiths like their father before them.  Already Krun'gar would allow Brox'gar's brothers to engrave the Blazehatchet seal on their works and sell them in his shop, but not Brox'gar.  Even on his nameday after 20 years of apprenticing under his father Brox'gar would still struggle with smithing.

The oldest of the brothers travelled out into the world while the youngest three would stay behind.  Brox'gar became determined to be just as good as his brothers at the family trade.  While his two older brothers would only work part of their days in the forge and spend the rest drinking and chasing lasses, Brox would spend every waking hour practicing the same techniques over and over again until even his muscles could remember the motions.  In spending the extra time in the shop with his father, his father would reveal to him the story behind the axe hanging over the forge.  Krun'gar regailed tales of a dwarf long ago known as Kul'gar Blazehatchet who sought out Durgedan's Forge.  Kul'gar and his allies defeated a Red Dragon and it's minions to reclaim the ancestral home and uncover the history of the Blazehatchet bloodline.  "The Axe's name is Fury, and it was wielded by our ancestor Kul'gar.  His deeds are why I honor my sons with the 'gar surname.  Brox, never forget our ancestors and their great deeds.  Everything they have done has brought us to our place in this universe to serve our purpose.  Our craft is our gift."

Brox eventually mastered Smithing, as his brothers and father before him, and would be allowed to brand his works Blazehatchet.  The family would continue for many decades running The Blazing Anvil successfully.  Eventually Brox would grow bored of smithing and venture out into the city more frequently.  Brox would hear stories of the Tal'na Mry and of all of their virtuous deeds and offered to repair their arms and weapons for free whenever they were in town and in need.  This helped Brox to establish a relationship with certain Agents of the Talna Mry that frequented Stormloft.  Brox was happy to be helping a good cause, but still something inside of him remained unsatisfied with the monotonous day-to-day.

After many more years of life in Stormloft and after the passing of his father, Brox finally understood that he was longing for a new craft to learn and master.  Remenscening on the days at the forge with his family, the words of his father,  and the fire of determination that swelled inside of himself as he learned and perfected his trade.  Brox and his brothers continued to run The Blazing Anvil in stormloft and continued to apprentice young smithing prospects for many more years.

One day a peculiar human came to the armorshop to contract some work for arms.  The human had oddities and trinkets strewn about his garments that seemed to be different tiny mechanical devices.  This human also came with detailed drawings of how the armor should be forged with writings in an unknown language to the Blazehatchet brothers (dimensions).  The brothers didn't know why the man needed the fancy pictures but they were confident they could craft armor that would meet the patron's needs, for a bit of extra coin for the detail work ofcourse.  It took the brothers a few weeks to finish the contract for the odd man who was constantly hanging around the shop critiquing even the most miniscule of details on the suit of arms.  Brox would come to learn that the strange human was a tinkerer by trade from the city of Rastegar.  The human showed Brox some of the trinkets he created and would explain how they work mechanically, none of which Brox'gar understood but would still be fascinated by.  The human also told of how wondrous the city of Rastegar was and all of the marvels of engineering the tinkerers and inventors of the realm had created there.

The Blazehatchet brothers completed the suit of armor according to the man's specifications and they never saw him again, but the encounter left Brox'gar Blazehatchet full of an almost-forgotten fire.  Intrigued with the intricacies and fascinated with the possiblities of the clockwork gadgets he had seen and heard of, Brox sought and found a tinkerers guild of gnomes within Stormloft who he begged to teach him the craft in exchance for more free forgework.  It would come to pass Brox became so obsessed with learning how to make these small mechanical devices, as well as performing the labor in exchange for these lessons, and also in addition to the pro-bono work he was still doing for his Talna Mry friends, Brox bankrupted himself.  Out of material and ways to pay for more, Brox would soon join a small caravan of the Tal'na Mry in travel to the city of Rastegar.