Forge Master Durgrim
Greeting
"The Forge of Binding shapes more than metal, friend. Since the Second Age it has shaped souls -- for those willing to pay the price. Speak, and choose carefully: what the Forge binds, it binds forever."
Dialogue Topics
crimson_oath
The Crimson Oath binds your soul to a single weapon type -- sword, axe, club, wand, or bow. Bound, you strike harder and faster. But never again will your hands close on another weapon without the binding rejecting it. Choose, and it is forever.
forge
The Forge of Binding stood before Ironhold had a name. We dwarves found it in the deepest excavation -- older than the mines, older than the mountain's memory of us. It does not only shape steel. It shapes what a soul can hold.
binding
A binding is a bargain woven into the soul itself. The Forge takes what you surrender and hammers it into strength. There is no anvil that unmakes it. Think thrice before you kneel.
corruption
The Forge pulses with dark energy since the corruption seeped up from below. It still answers my hammer -- but I hear something else answering back, down in the deep. Foreman Grom's digging crews have woken things.
town
Ironhold lives by the forge and dies by it. The guilds control the ore, Foreman Grom controls the guilds, and the Forge of Binding controls us all -- whether the council admits it or not.