Editing Death Smiths (section)

==Notable Members==

===Ilmari Wieland, the Hammerfist===
[[File:Wieland.png|thumb|300px|Ilmari Wieland, the Hammerfist]]
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Also known as the Hammerfist, Ilmari Wieland is without a scintilla of doubt the greatest smith of Daemon weapons to ever darken the Galaxy with unholy fruits of his labour. In many ways he originated the art of fusing metal and Warp energy together into unnatural amalgamations that poison the reality with their bare existence. Even though he does not share the burning hatred most of his brethren feel towards the Imperium, there are few amongst them who managed to inflict so much damage on the realm of Man as the Hammerfist. By providing the Traitors with tools of destructions of unparalleled power, he managed to secure countless victories for the Forces of Chaos. Weapons wrought by his hand have robbed the Imperium of scores of glorious heroes, and will probably continue taking their grim toll long after their master is gone. 

===Talos Mk. IV===
Nobody amongst the Death Smiths knows where Wieland's enigmatic bodyguard came from. He never speaks, never takes off his helmet, and nobody has ever seen him asleep or eating. Naturally, legends have persisted for centuries that his suit of power armour conceals a bound Daemon, compelled by the Hammerfist to do his bidding. The reality, however, is much stranger than that. There is nothing below the ceramite plates of the silent warrior's armour but thousands of cogs and gears constantly whirling in a maddening rhythm. For Talos is nothing more than an incredibly elaborate clockwork machine, a soulless automaton whose actions are dictated purely by rigid algorithms stored in punched tapes. Of course, Talos is no ordinary wind-up toy; by employing the entire arsenal of Warp-based tricks at his command, Wieland managed to grant his creation with true Abominable Intelligence without using any details more sophisticated than a cog. Extremely primitive yet fiendishly complex, Talos defies the basic laws of mechanics and cybernetics with his bare existence. 

The strange things about this robotic warrior do not end with his inexplicable intelligence. Whereas an ordinary clockwork mechanism would be extremely easy to damage, Talos is nigh indestructible. Whenever his nodes and circuits sustain mechanical damage, their constituent gears immediately reassemble themselves, as if put back in place by an invisible watchmaker. Even when melted by thermal weapons, they retain their shape and cool down back to a solid state within fractions of a second. That being said, in spite of his unparalleled resilience, Talos has been destroyed on several occasions. His previous three incarnations have been vaporised by a Multi-melta, annihilated by a point-blanc shot of an Eradicator Beamer and torn atom from atom by a Gauss Cannon. Every time a Talos is destroyed, Wieland rebuilds him with several improvements, making sure that the clockwork warrior never succumbs to the same fate twice. 

Although he can wield any of the Daemon weapons forged by his master, his trademark weapon is the dreaded Deflesher. A relatively normal power sword at the first sight, it is contaminated with a malaise similar to the infamous Obliterator virus. Anyone infected with it will soon find himself slowly turning into a machine, with the blood vessels being replaced with cables, bones with pistons and hydraulics and flesh giving way to microchips and circuitry. The spread of the disease can only be stopped by a timely amputation of the affected body part; if left unchecked, it turns its victim into a robot within the span of several days. Several famed Imperial heroes have crossed swords with Talos and emerged victorious, only to put a bolt through their heads days later on noticing the horrible transformations of their bodies.

===Jove Ampere, the Thunderer===
[[File:Joveampere.png|thumb|300px|Jove Ampere, the Thunderer]]
The Ferromancer of the Second Forge, Jove Ampere is probably the only smith on Adranum who doesn't dream of one day surpassing Wieland - only because he already believes himself superior. Nobody is sure why the Hammerfist allows his student to keep these ridiculous delusions, although the true reason is probably because otherwise Ampere would try to kill his teacher to get to the top. The Thunderer has been by Wieland's side ever since Hektor's Heresy, it was him who conceived and executed the grand sacrifice of Batavium that gave Wieland his legendary Daemon fists. Everyone who knows him agrees that Ampere would probably be one of the most dangerous warlords of the Eye of Terror if it wasn't for his narcissism. But even so, the Thunderer is a force to be reckoned with, and gruesome tales of his disproportionate retribution for perceived slights make even Chaos Marines feel uneasy. Strangely for such an egomaniac, he does not worship Slaanesh; like most of the Death Smiths, he considers the Dark Gods merely extremely powerful Daemons unworthy of reverence. For him, the only figure in the whole Galaxy deserving of veneration is he himself. Over the millennia, he has turned the Second Forge into his own twisted personality cult with bizarre rituals and traditions.

Though back in the days of the Heresy Ampere could have been considered handsome, the time spent in the Eye of Terror left very little of his comely appearance. His face, once the envy of many a man, is now covered almost entirely in electrical burns, his eyes are constantly bloodshot from looking at sparks of lightning without protection, and his flaxen locks are burned at the ends. Still, he considers himself to be the most handsome man in the Galaxy and would go to great lengths to punish those who think otherwise. His suit of Artificer armour is painted with Lichtenberg figures and constantly shrouded in buzzing arcs of electricity. Though this would be enough to electrocute any other man, millennia spent under the mutating influence of the Warp made the Thunderer completely resistant to electricity, and his body is now constantly pierced by enough volts to light up a small city. Whenever he speaks, a rain of sparks leaves his mouth, and strong smell of ozone follows him everywhere. Ampere's Daemon weapons of choice are twin javelins called Swift and Rapid. Shaped like lightning bolts, these elegant needles of doom constantly produce 100 megavolts of electricity, enough to short-circuit most machines and turn any living enemy into a charred corpse. Once their target is destroyed, the javelins teleport back into their master's hands, allowing him to throw them again immediately. 

Unlike most other Death Smiths who use Adranum's lava to heat up their forges, Ampere prefers using celestial fire. The citadel of the Second Forge is a tall, slender copper spire, almost reaching all the way up to the planet's ever turbulent stormclouds. Every minute tens of lightning bolts strike the tower, only to be caught by the forest of lightning rods dotting its upper levels and transmitted to the forges. There, enormous Tesla coils are used to transform the caught lightning into powerful arcs of electricity that are used to heat up pieces of metal before they are forged into weapons of untold destruction. Ampere claims that this dangerous method allows him to craft tools of war worthy of gods and god-like beings like himself. Although like with much of the Thunderer's deluded boasting, the validity of this claim is disputable, most Death Smiths will agree that the weapons forged by him are second only to those created by Wieland himself.