Post by Ryutatsu "Sakurai Sword" on Jan 12, 2017 9:34:06 GMT -7
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Chosen Medium (Katana)
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: The Artisan can choose a particular material or element of their craft to specialize in.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: All use of the craft skill within this specialist area is granted a +10 competency bonus. Valid specializations are Chainmail for Craft (Armour), Longsword for Craft (Weaponsmithing), Flying Destruction Machine for Craft (Technician), Keg for Craft (Potter) and so on. For Genius Artisans, it is possible to choose a medium that applies to both crafts, so for example choosing Mithral might apply to weapons, armour, blacksmithing and so on.
Limit: Must be an Artisan.
Ryutatstu's nightly lessons with the old sword smith was starting to pay off. As he improved steadily in his ability to forge various weapons and metal items. It helped that his magnetic abilities allowed him to manipulate the metal to a finer degree than his hands could. But it was also a skill that he was gaining by daily toil with the old man. But Ryutatsu had started to notice something.
What Ryutatsu was noticing that he had a chosen item that he would prefer to forge. He knew the ins and outs of forging swords, and not just any kind of swords but Katana specifically. This was something that was becoming the easiest for him because he did this particular one so often. His expertise in Kenjutsu was the speed drawing of the katana and now he was expanding his expertise to making them.
He was truly becoming a master of the sword in every stage of it's life. From the stage of it being a hunk of unshaped metal. To getting the metal purified through fire and other methods. Then to melting the metal to such a degree that he could start shaping it. He would pound away at the metal until it was roughly the shape of a sword. But then he would go further and fold the metal for the specifics of a Katana.
He would fold the metal many a time before he was ready to pound an edge out. He would work on a single sword for hours if not days, putting all his skill into it. And he was skilled but he could become much better. That was why he continued to learn from a master sword smith. That and the old man needed the company for he was very lonely. So Day in and day out Ryutatsu took his lessons and improved.
Ryutatsu though continued on his passion when he could choose the projects. And this passion was swords and scabbards, for he didn't use a normal bamboo scabbard but a metal one. And part of crafting a sword was crafting it's scabbard to match. It wasn't enough just to forge it, it also had to be tempered and finished. Finishing at least required a hilt and a guard to be added to the sword.
