Blade Tempering Novels & Stories

“You stitch, I sharpen?” Rin eyed the mangled seam he’d attempted earlier. “That bad?” she asked. “It will not survive another rain,” he said. She took it, turned it over, and bit back a smile. “Give me that,” she said, nodding at the whetstone. “Before you decide, the best way to protect your blade is to take half the metal off.” They worked in companionable quiet, her fingers moving in even stitches, his hands guiding steel along stone in sure strokes. Firelight warmed their faces; the low murmur of the others’ conversation filled the space around them.

"They will see your Tempered Heart as a pollutant: a chaotic heat that threatens their stillness. They will not negotiate. They will try to weave the frost into your very marrow." While the elders spoke of prophecies: my sons were preparing for the physical reality of the ice. In the courtyard: Leo and Toby led the integrated packs through a final: brutal training session. They were testing the Tempered Armor: a masterpiece of Julian’s engineering that utilized the quartz plating of the Silver Moon and the thermal energy of the Sun Pack. As the warriors sparred: their armor glowed with a beautiful: violet gold light: creating localized heat zones that resisted the mountain’s own evening chil

said Salladhor Saan, "and be glad of that, my friend. Do you know the tale of the forging of Lightbringer? I shall tell it to you. It was a time when darkness lay heavy on the world. To oppose it, the hero must have a hero's blade, oh, like none that had ever been. And so for thirty days and thirty nights Azor Ahai labored sleepless in the temple, forging a blade in the sacred fires. Heat and hammer and fold, heat and hammer and fold, oh, yes, until the sword was done. Yet when he plunged it into water to temper the steel it burst asunder. "Being a hero, it was not for him to shrug and go in search of excellent grapes such as these, so again he began. The second time it took him fifty days a

The main lesson was to not show their powers outside the Small World. Days turned into weeks, and Betty and Carol broke through the first stage of Body Life Destruction. On the days they broke through, they almost gave up on their cultivation due to the pain. “Why is it so painful?” Carol asked, lying on the grass with sweat. “The body goes through a restructuring, and the bones are now ten times more durable than before. The first three are the worst of this body tempering; it will get better afterward.” Blake explained. They had to go through bone tempering, tendons, skin, and muscle tempering in the first three then the rest of the body followed. The body’s shell must be more vital to acc

“You will work as one. Borin explains the theory. Holden adapts the craft. Every step is approved by both, or it is not taken.” The first sessions were a war of scowls and grunts. But then, examining the shards of the failed trigger, Borin pointed a calloused finger. “See? A cold-shut fracture. The metal was poured too cool.” Holden, his pride still wounded, snorted. “Aye. The furnace couldn’t hold the heat you demanded. We need a forced-air bellows on the main forge. A design from the northern mines.” It was a statement of fact, not a concession.