Smithing Magic

While most smiths can craft a sharp sword, a handful of sturdy nails or a plate of armor, magic items are something that only the best smiths can create.

They do so by chanting Smithing Songs and imbuing them into the metal. The resulting symbols can be later deciphered in order to identify the magic imbued into the item. There are some items, however, especially ancient metalcraft, which do not have those symbols and are particularly hard to understand. Those items were crafted by master smiths and magicians without using Smithing Songs, as they are not necessary to plant magic into the item; The songs merely work as some sort of catalyst, to channel the Void and concentrate on the magic to be imbued.

While basic incantations last only few minutes, the most powerful items take more than twelve hours to craft. Every single mistake during those twelve hours results in a weaker magic; The clarity of the symbols is an indicator for the quality of the product.

Multiple incantations can be concatenated to add multiple properties to the item, but significantly increase the difficulty of the process.

The most powerful item that is told of in legends is the Eye of the Tiger, a ring which took more than one week to smith. The mastersmith Sleogav hit every note at the right time and crafted a unique piece of jewelry.

There are four subschools of Smithing Magic:
 * Weaponsmithing
 * Armorsmithing
 * Goldsmithing
 * Itemsmithing (For tools and the like)