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Originally Posted by Atlantia
Hi Rumpel,
What are they making them out of> What's the source for the steel?
Is it just a guy with a few basic tools and a fire or are they made in little workshops?
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The steel comes from railway sleepers, so they say.
They're forged in little outdoor
ateliers in Bunj
suq. Two or three smiths, each with a teenage apprentice or two. Then they're handed to two sheath-makers, one who hammers the metal sheaths together, and one who sews together leather/lizardskin sheaths. They also make fearsome-looking barbed spearheads from (I think) old steel oil drums, though unfortunately i didn't bring one back.
Officers tend to carry axes instead of daggers, as a mark of status. I'll dig up some photos.