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* Karis in the ''[[Elemental Logic]]'' series is an accomplished blacksmith. She's also an earth witch, and she's aware of what happens to every tool she makes(which is why she makes weapons only for her [[True Companions]]).
* Marunde in ''[[Someone Else's War|Someone Elses War]]'' fits this trope in role and attitude, but instead of swords he's making grenade launchers.
* Elof, main character of Michael Scott Rohan's ''The Winter of the World'' trilogy. The best smiths in his world are also mages, and the first book's epilogue says Elof eventually became known as "[[Ultimate Blacksmith|mightiest of all magesmiths]] amid the dark days of the ancient [[Title Drop|Winter of the World]]."
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* Muramasa is said to have infused every sword he made with his violent rage. Although Muramasa is often portrayed as Goro's pupil, the two lived about two centuries apart.
* The ''Javanese'' [[wikipedia:Kris|keris]] usually have it in their myths about how their blacksmith must perform a spiritual act (usually involve fasting and meditating in remote places) before they can begin forging. It only strengthen folk beliefs about how the keris are magic blades (of the "possessed by a powerful entity" variety).
* Many modern artisans from all over the world make armors and weapons for
* Andrew Ferrara may have been a sword-maker in Scotland in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Whether he actually existed is debatable, but it is known that extremely well-made Scottish broadswords have his name inscribed on their blades.
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