Bramm Coppervein was born in the dwarven districts of northeast Bazagon City, fourth generation in a family of smiths serving the Ignallion Consortium. He was raised on Zammonkerr the Forgemaster and the old teaching that the ichor of the dead gods lingers in every ingot and gem, so that honest craft is itself a form of prayer.

His life changed in the sublevels beneath the City of Mazes. Delving for salvage, Bramm found a buried forge from the Age of Cataclysms, its anvil cut from the petrified bone of something far larger than a man. Carved into the stone were marks he could not read but somehow knew how to strike. He has been working them into steel ever since: runes that burn, runes that turn a blade aside, runes that make a dwarf stand taller than he has any right to.

The Consortium gave him a letter of introduction and few questions. Bramm delves, salvages, reforges, and sells at the Market of Kings, saving toward a forge of his own — Coppervein & Sons. Until then he fights beside those who pay fairly and mends their gear afterward, for a fair price, of course.