Soot

Designated Blacksmith;;

As the designated blacksmith of the lair, Soot is incredibly devoted to her work. It has always been her passion. You'll rarely find her away from the forge. She's always coming up with a new project to work on. She is highly energetic and optimistic and you'll see her working day and night without a break, her eyes glimmering in the fire. Only her mate dares to interrupt her, to remind her that there's more to life. He supports her love and passion but also loves her company. She loves his, too. She's always thankful that he pulls her away from her work sometimes to do other things, since otherwise she'd never leave her work.

Soot may be obsessive with her work, but she cares a lot about others, especially her mate and the others she works with/beside. For a long time, her coworker had only been Karat, a Light Fae that's the jeweler of the lair. Their trades overlap a bit and so they share the same work space. This used to bother him, as he prefers to work alone, but when he realized that Soot gladly gave him his space and wasn't one to gab, he warmed up to her. But later on, Valyria also shared her space. Soot immediately liked the goldsmithing Fire Skydancer that she had originally met outside of the clan. She'd met her at a trade festival where the two worked side-by-side in the same tent, sharing stories and laughs while hard at work. Learning that Valyria was still young and had never left home, Soot invited her to join her clan and to work beside her permanently. She liked the idea of such an adventure and joined, which later had another reward: a future mate. Since she fell in love with Karat and he fell in love with her.

Now Soot is very happy at work. She spends her days working besides her two best friends, chatting a bit with Valyria, but mostly in determined, busy silence. At night, Ashes comes along and collects her, urging her to put down her tools and sleep with him under their tree in the Starwood Strand.