The Kajiya Hara Domain.
The land ruled by Daimyo Sadamasa.
Across Kastoria, it was known as the great forge of the realm. More weapons, armor, and tools of war were made there than anywhere else in the country. Swords, spears, breastplates, arrowheads, horse tack, shields, and iron fittings for armies all passed through its furnaces sooner or later. The entire domain seemed built around fire, steel, and labor.
From the moment one entered the town, the sound of work never stopped.
Hammers rang out in every direction, striking metal over and over until the air itself seemed to pulse with it. Sparks leaped from open forges. Men bent over anvils with sweat pouring down their faces while others hauled iron, carried coal, sharpened blades, or worked great bellows that fed the flames. Smoke drifted upward in heavy gray columns and hung over the streets like a second sky.
It was a brutally hot place.
