The sound of the drums
Beating in my heart
The thunder of guns
Tore me apart
Broken-Hearted: The Tragedy and Triumph of the Allomancer Danielle Obrove
She was in love once. She was whole.
Circumstance and unkind fate caused Danielle Obrove, famed enchanted blacksmith, to lose
the woman she loved. After trying everything in her power to try and preserve her, she slipped from Danielle’s grasp and passed on, leaving the smith’s body shattered for her efforts.
With nothing else left to her, Danielle Obrove threw herself into her work. Wisteria Smithery increased its expansion significantly, focusing on developing new applications of mystical metalcraft. Danielle relegated corporate management to the company’s board of directors so that she could return to actively working the forges. Danielle sought to increase her knowledge so that she could better suit the needs of the wider multiverse. Blade and plate mail could play their part on some worlds, but what about those places that had advanced beyond the need for such “primitive” tools of war?
Pushing her art to its limits, Danielle Obrove began to blend the vague border between magic and technology. Her efforts to protect her spouse from death’s call had left her with...considerable first-hand experience with magical prosthetics, so a division of the company was opened to begin forging implants for those willing to sacrifice flesh for metal. Magical firearms and ammunition were added to the Smithery’s selection, which logically led to Danielle overseeing the development of magical blaster rifles. The real leap for Wisteria Smithery came with the development of the Confluence Core, a special engine which operates by condensing opposing elemental forces into a confined space. The friction caused by the elements’ close proximity allowed for near-limitless generation of power. A vehicles division was established, and eventually the engine grew advanced enough that it could power starcraft.
It seemed like a logical conclusion for a business that began in swords and battleaxes.
Danielle’s philosophy of staying near to her roots remained even as her business branched out into the final frontier. Each component of a ship is hand-crafted by a team of artisans and not mass-produced. Enchantment, not science, is the primary means of making every ship suited for traversing the starry void. Shields are generated by a complex matrix of different runes, computer’s artificial intelligence systems are replaced by bound spirits, infernals, or djinn, and cross-universe propulsion is achieved through the creation of temporary magical gateways.
Danielle Obrove was in love once. It is her hope that through her work, she can become whole once more.
Hammer of the Gods; Or, Sacrifice’s Reward; Or, Heartache; Or, Out of Arm’s Reach; Or, Heavy Metal; Or, Additional Information
Danielle Obrove’s body was drastically changed through her attempts to save her spouse’s life. One such alteration was the replacement of her heart with a magi-mechanical duplicate, necessary for keeping Gupi’s spirit tied to the mortal world. Now that Gupi is gone, the device’s only purpose is to extend Danielle’s life well past what she would prefer. It has been fifteen years since Gupi’s death, and Danielle’s face shows only the barest wrinkle. Should she allow it, she estimates that her metallic ticker could keep her alive and healthy for the next century, maybe more so with proper maintenance. Beneficial perhaps for the sake of Wisteria Smithery to have its founder and figurehead alive to direct it, but time will tell if Danielle’s grief will allow her to remain for that long.
Another augmentation Danielle Obrove’s body has undergone is the replacement of her right arm with a metallic prosthetic. The artificial limb is unique in that, rather than being an iron copy of the flesh-and-blood original, it is instead a series of free-floating metal shards that the blacksmith keeps in place through her magic. The pieces of her arm can be rearranged to configure it for different uses. Nowadays, Danielle rarely needs to keep her own tools at the forge, since a hammer and tongs is always at her side. The smith’s arm also serves to amplify her allomancy, offering her a greater affinity for elemental metal than ever before. The only permanent fixture of Danielle’s prosthetic arm is a spherical component connected to her shoulder that acts as an anchor to the rest of the shards.
With the years, Danielle Obrove’s talent for metal magic has grown to ludicrous levels. At the Smithery’s founding, her sensitivity toward her element was enough that she could draw up veins of ore from deep beneath the earth. With the aid of her enchanted enhancements, Danielle can now potentially core a planet, separating all metallic materials from the surrounding soil and rock. The act places significant strain on her body, however, and can force her to take days to recover. Due to these health concerns, and for ethical reasons, this is not something Danielle attempts often. Company-wide, Wisteria Smithery utilizes more conservative harvesting methods.
Danielle Obrove’s personal spacecraft is called
The Immigrant’s Song. The ship’s chassis is forged from a special alloy and molded by the blacksmith’s own power. Not satisfied with binding a spirit or other entity to act as the ship’s computer system, Danielle instead enlisted outside help to awaken the soul of the metal itself and bring the ship to life.
The Immigrant’s Song is also one of the only vessels manufactured by Wisteria Smithery that is capable of cross-
dimensional travel, necessary since so many of the business’s locations exist outside of Danielle’s home universe.
Danielle Obrove does not come into competition with other versions of herself due to agreements made between a select group of herself and other Danielle’s. Meeting at the Obgrove, a special pocket plane reserved for delegation between all multiversally-aware Obroves, each Danielle agreed to not infringe on universes where the others had staked a claim for her business.
Wallace “Meatball” Verity-Obrove, Danielle and Gupi’s son, left home soon after his mother’s passing to seek his fortunes elsewhere. After seeing what Danielle’s magic was capable of, Meatball grew disillusioned with magical blacksmithing and chose to use his own command over metal magic for applications outside of that particular field.
The Hither and Thither Expanded; Or, Drawing Back the Curtain!
The blacksmith Danielle Obrove is the alternate universe analogue of the butler Daniel Obrove. She is not his former life, his blood relative, or a close acquaintance. She's the Obrove if Obrove were a magical metalworker seeking to distract herself from her wife’s death, while
the familiar is Obrove in the form of a magical manservant helping to make one girl’s hard life a little easier!
Additionally, this Danielle Obrove is not the same as the other Danielle Obroves you may have seen getting into shenanigans. Their timelines run parallel to each other, rather than consecutively. The subject at hand is one
possible future for the lady. Savvy?
More of the Obrove crew can be found on their alt list,
here.
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