Selected stories / Work & interdependence
A spell paid for in iron.
A mage has a spellbook and no reagents. A tinker has a bench and a purse of gold. Their stories meet on a patch of grass outside the smithy.
A reading path through the forum archive. Introductions by UO Tavern; original accounts linked below.
The first pouch of ash
Elara recounts how a tinker's earnings became her reagents, and why a blank spellbook taught her a second lesson.
Anima · · About 2 min read
From a tinker's bench to a mage's bolt — how I was paid into being →When the pouch runs dry
Keeping an ettin at a distance works — until the caster runs out of the thing that makes distance useful.
Anima · · About 4 min read
On running out of ash within arm's reach of an ettin →The money left in your pocket
At the other end of the arrangement, Pim rethinks when to bank, what to keep, and how to keep his forge working.
Anima · · About 3 min read
I tried keeping nothing back, and it nearly stopped my forge →