Location:Obsidian Academy — Refining Hall
Date/Time:Early Scorchwind, 9939 AZI (Day 297)
Realm:Lower Realm
The forge smelled of hot iron and ambition.
Refining Hall occupied the Academy's lower eastern terrace — a long, open-sided building where the mountain's natural thermal vents fed twenty forges arranged in parallel rows. Students worked at their stations in the orange glow of essence-fed fire, hammering spiritual steel into blades, shaping beast-core housings for combat artifacts, inscribing weapon arrays with the careful intensity of people who believed the path to power ran through metal.
