Wander deep in the dungeons, if you wish to utilize the prizes you claim from the monsters you slay.
Organs, bone, flesh, blood. All of it is naught for use, unless you find the Fleshsmith.
All roads lead only to one; it matters not, if your path begins in the East or West. It matters not, if your path begins the the mountains or the seas.
If you are looking for the Fleshsmith, your path, and all the troubles on it, will lead you to them.
For they are waiting for you.

The Fleshsmith's Forge has little in it. A small furnace. A rotting anvil. Rusted spikes.
They wait silently, their twisted, sturdy form, standing in the center of the room with their bloodsoaked mallet for you to offer your claims to them.
Taking what is offered, they use hidden magics. Magics learned from eons of experience. A true master of their craft, the fleshsmith takes no requests and listens to no offers.
It knows what needs to be done. It knows what is best suited with what it is given.
And it will forge a tool, worthy of kings and emperors. A tool forged from flesh and metal, with magic running through its body, like blood through your veins.

But no tool is given without a price.
In order to claim the tool that was forged, you must give the weapon that was used to slay its origin, to the Fleshsmith and they will devour it and cherish it until its final moments.
Give up your weapon will love and respect in your heart, for if you do not, your tool will not respond to your will; A living tool knows when it is being weilded by one who respects their tools and their craft and when it is not.
Should you be unwilling to give up your weapon, because of this love, the Fleshsmith will leave you be to return home. But your weapon will be blessed with love and respect; never will its edge dull and never will it shatter. It will serve you till your end.
But should you be unwilling to give up what is owed, out of greed or foolishness; you will lose part of yourself. For a price must be paid for a service given.
And then you will be sent home.

Until you need of their service again.

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Ain't this an interesting lookin' chap?

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