Bronze Protector

A hulking metal man waiting for a hearth-fire to wake its heart.

Category: Minor

A broken bronze construct of armor plates, interlocking pipes, and a stove-like chest, scattered in pieces that can be made whole again if every fragment is found. Reassembling it demands a season of exceptional smithing and the patient repair of the runes laid into its body. The final spark is older than craft: a hearth-spirit, coaxed from your own fire, must agree to dwell in the stove and animate the metal. So long as flame burns in its chest, it stands and serves.

To unlock it

repair the body, taking a full season for an exceptional smith (Value 3).
spend a few weeks repairing the runes, risking a mistake that makes them inef-fective or unstable.
convince your own hearth’s spirit to inhabit the stove and animate the construct.

Unlocked power