Poetry of Iron (1)
Our family has been blacksmiths for generations and lives in the village.
My name is Dogdan, and my father is the only blacksmith in the village.
Every day, adventurers come to my dad to repair their equipment, and these adventurers have one characteristic.
I couldn't see their faces, all of them wearing masks thick enough to cover their entire heads.
Some of the masks have the expression of a hippie smile, while others have a hideous look on them.
Almost all of these adventurers passed by and asked my dad to repair or re-blade their weapons.
But the weapons that Dad put on the counter for sale, these adventurers hardly buy unless they have an emergency.
Dad said that these people were called adventurers, and they were managed by an adventurer's guild called them.
Masks have only one purpose, which is to cover the face. Because we live in a world that is not only human, but also elves, beasts, and demons.
In the beginning, the four races occupied each of the four plates of the continent, but the demons and orcs were obviously more aggressive than humans and elves.
Over time, demons and beasts have eroded both sides of the continent.
Humans and elves are encased, and they are constantly annexing and invading inwards little by little.
At that time, the orcs were on the left side of the humans, and the demons were on the right side of the elves.
Humans and elves are constantly moving their royal cities and main cities, and there is no respite at all under the attack of the beasts and demons.
The turning point was thirty years ago, when the Terrans and Elves were almost squeezed into the center of the continent. With the two main cities visible to each other at their highest point, they were forced to form an alliance.
This time the alliance has brought about a sea change, with humans who are good at cold weapons and elves who are good at magic sharing technology and knowledge.
Humans learned magic, and elves fell in love with human bows and arrows.
Humans and orcs clash, and the strength of humans is completely unable to compete with orcs when they are all using cold weapons. But with the blessing of magic, the attack of the orcs was almost completely suppressed.
And when the elves here have no advantage in fighting against a large number of magically immune demons, the bows and arrows learned from humans have suppressed the invasion of demons.
In this way, the human race and the elves ushered in peace, and adventurers were born under this turbulent peace.
Adventurers are hired by the Adventure Guild to help the surrounding villages that have been attacked by demons and orcs. Follow the mission to retake the territory or rescue the captured captives, complete the assigned mercenary tasks to earn gold and upgrade your own adventure level. After reaching a certain level of adventure, the royal city of the humans and the main city of the elves will accept the elite of these adventurers for their own use.
As for why adventurers wear masks, it's because even if humans and elves have reached an alliance. But there is still a moral and ethical divide in the race, and masks can cover this difference.
The four races on the continent all speak the same language and write the same script on the continent. Even the ancient documents of the mainland record that all the four tribes believe in the god who is also a titan.
But there was still a war because of the different races, and almost all the differences between the four races appeared only in the face and skin color.
The difference between elves and humans is that they have pointed ears, and even their skin color is about the same.
The difference between orcs and humans is only the fangs in their mouths, and their skin color is green and grayish-green.
The difference between demons and humans is only the long horns on the top of their heads, and their skin color is purple and purple-black.
Therefore, after the alliance between humans and elves, ordinary civilians live in their own villages, so they do not need to cover their faces.
And these wandering adventurers can't do without these masks, so much so that their racial identity can be hidden under the masks.