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Anders Rumter was a famed Mountain Dwarven weaponsmith. He was particularly odd for several reasons. He had green eyes, a very rare trait among Mountain Dwarves, he had four arms (though he was not born this way,) and most peculiarly of all he kept his face clean shaven his entire life.

He spent his entire life in his homeland, the Gorelmian Alps, and had his own forge by the time he was 30. He never took a wife, nor sired any children, but he was extremely career dedicated. By age 100 he had vastly extended his private forge, and made it a pinnacle of efficiency and productivity, and began churning out serviceable weapons (swords and axes mostly) for armies (and woodsmen) all across Orath. By the time his age approached 200, it was clear he was cut out for more than smithing a constant flow of swords, and his work had garnered a very healthy reputation. He began to become very specific in his work, and while he began to make fewer weapons, the quality only went up. Nary a Dwarven smith in the Alps went without a tool that originated in his forge.

While he was in a particularly experimental phase of his life, he happened to meet a group of wizards visiting from Cort Moen. Though he never forged an enchanted weapon in his life, the wizards enchanted him with their tales of magic and power, especially of the Unholy Ceremony of Alteration. As fate would have it, a notorious ogre thief had been caught in the halls of Anders' village, and was scheduled to be shipped back to Cort Moen to be executed (though his lawyer was pleading for dismemberment.) Anders took it into his head to try the Unholy Ceremony of Alteration, and bought the ogre's life. He convinced the visiting wizards to perform the ritual, and took the lower pair of the ogre's arms. Though he was now a very unusual looking dwarf (green eyed, smooth faced, and four armed) he was extremely productive. The extra arms enabling him to focus greater effort on a single piece, or work on two weapons at once.

Anders took on very few apprentices during his life, not out of jealously guarding trade secrets, but simply because he didn't feel his techniques were in any way remarkable. He took on apprentices only when his workload was truly immense, or for his family members (he trained several nephews and nieces in the art.)
By his last century, he had dedicated himself to solely smithing ceremonial works, and became extremely ornate in his craftsmanship. Many notable rulers of the time possessed multiple pieces from Anders' forge.

His death at 444 was something of a shock to the entire Dwarven population of the Gorelmian Alps, and thousands flocked to his funeral in 2330 A.S. His forge was shut down, and converted into a gallery and museum for his tools and his own private collection of weapons.

Some of his more famous works include:

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