Smith

A long time ago years ago in a neolithic village someone (for simplicity sake we'll say a potter) figured out that if you took a certain green rock, put it in a kiln and got it really hot you would get a lump of shiny comparatively hard reddish material that could be heated up and shaped into a wide variety of tools and ornaments. Thus humanity learned how to work copper and the world gained it's first Smiths. As time went on said villages grew into towns and then cities, these guys got better at their job and figured out that one could add tin to molten copper to make bronze. Latter some of them worked out how to work iron and make steel, these guys became known as blacksmiths.

Smiths are by far /tg/'s favorite premodern artisans.

Types of smith

• Farrier: A guy who makes horseshoes and fits them onto horses.
• Village Smith: The most common type of blacksmith in the middle ages, these guys made farm tools, nails, pots, pans and basically the majority of simple iron implements needed by a small community of peasants. Occasionally they would make simple weapons and armor as well but these would be of low quality.
• Bladesmith: A smith who makes knives.
• Weaponsmith: A smith who specializes in making weapons
• Swordsmith: A smith who specializes in making swords, these guys were very much in demand.
• Gunsmith: A smith who specializes in the manufacture of firearms
• Armorer: A smith who makes armor.
• Toolsmith: A smith that makes tools, including other blacksmiths
• Goldsmiths: Smiths who do fancy work with gold
• Silversmiths: Smith who do fancy work with silver

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