Eternal Swordsmith

Ethics and Lifespan with your appraising eye, and decide: should this person hold this blade?Give too strong a sword to the ambitious and you invite ruin; entrust it to the just and a hero is born.Swords carry no affinity tags — the judgment is yours alone.ObserveA sold blade lives on in the world. Days later its wielder rises as a hero or falls to destruction, and that fate returns to you as a story.Your reputation grows along two separate axes — fame and infamy — shifting your clientele and even the balance of factions.InheritPeople age and die. The sword remains, and returns to your hand. Melt a well-worn blade down as material and its skills pass into the next.An endless loop of inheritance, honed across generations.Beyond the workshopAt least 200 recipes, over 50 materials, and more than 400 magic-sword designsNearly 100 adventurers and more than 20 unique customers, each with a fate to followMore than 20 quests and multiple endings shaped by accumulated choicesAt least 30 original BGM tracks, plus character motifs, stingers and sound effectsA walkable Blade Museum where returned swords and their histories can be preservedA quiet craft, one blade at a time. The blade remains; the wielder does not — spend a while with the marks they leave.