Working at lower temperatures requires more physical effort from the smith or forgeman.

The blade hit the armor and rang as it must not have done since it felt the last stroke of the forgeman's hammer.

In the summer of 1860, for example, Sam Williams, a valued forgeman, found the heat too oppressive and simply took a four-week vacation.

Dalamar felt the heat of it, and he heard a roaring like the forgeman's furnace as Kesela flung the fire, cursing.

He had the broad shoulders of a forgeman, the scarred hands, the keen eye that knew how to look into the heart of fire and see how well his iron was faring.

There, they participate in a sequence of quests with the final goal of defeating the Iron Forgeman, an immense automaton used by the Stone Summit dwarves to drive their war effort.