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* ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'' [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20041014.html parodied this one]] and is the TropeNamer.

* In ''Literature/TheBalancedSword'', the Spiritsmith has practiced his craft for thousands of years, studied under masters of every form of weapon and armor making in the world, and produces work so good that even the gods themselves offer him commissions. When he's not needed elsewhere, he makes his home at the top of a tall mountain in a forbidding mountain range, and even if a person can find out which mountain there are a bunch of rules about when you can climb it and what equipment you're allowed to use to make sure the only people who make it to his doorstep are ones who are worth his time.

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' has an odd and more humorous example. While Ron Swanson is something of a handyman as a whole he's treated as the Ultimate Woodworker, as his creations are generally of award-winning quality and of astounding, sometimes incredible sturdiness.
-->'''Ron:''' It's the crib I built, I'm giving it to [Chris] and Ann. It's perfectly safe, I tested it by hitting it with my truck. ''*points to heavily-damaged truck*''

* Invoked by more PowerMetal than it is remotely feasible to list.

* OlderThanFeudalism: Hephaestus is the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek god]] of, amongst other things, blacksmithing. He did live under a volcano in various myths (Often mount Etna). He was also often helped by Cyclops. When the Romans [[CompositeCharacter assimilated their volcano god Vulcan to Hephaestus]], he became this as well.
* Ilmarinen, from the Finnish ''Literature/{{Kalevala}}''. Not only is he a badass Blacksmith in general, he also made the sky itself.

** The dwarfs (or dark elves) Sindri and Brokkr. To win a bet with Loki, they forge three magical treasures, a living, golden boar for Freyr, a gold ring that duplicates itself every nine nights for Odin, and for Thor, his hammer Mjölnir. And this is despite Loki sabotaging every attempt. Two of the treasures turned out fine, but Mjölnir's handle was too short thanks to Loki. Sindri crafted Thor's iron gloves so he could safely wield the hammer anyway.

* Lon Beruk in ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'' is a famous sorcerer-blacksmith from the Demon World, whose powerful weapons are used by heroes and villains alike. He is first referenced as the creator of Hyunkel's Demon Armor Sword and its sister weapons (which can transform part of their mass into [[ArmorOfInvincibility a suit of incredibly sturdy armour]]), and Demon Lord Vearn's MagicStaff is another of his creations. When [[TheHero Dai]] finds that he has grown too powerful for any normal weapon to withstand his strength, Lon Beruk appears in person and (once the heroes find him some {{Orichalcum}}) crafts [[FullPotentialUpgrade a simple but ultra-durable blade for the hero]] which he christens "The Sword of Dai". It's eventually revealed that Lon Beruk sympathised with Dai because ''he himself'' suffers the same problem - he's also the best ''[[WorldsBestWarrior swordsman]]'' in the Demon World, and originally became a blacksmith as part of his quest for a weapon that could handle his full strength.

Compare ForgedByTheGods, SwordOfPlotAdvancement and UltimateForge. See also TheBlacksmith. The weapons they forge may be so [[AbsurdlySharpBlade absurdly sharp]] that LikeCannotCutLike. May overlap with StockGods. Unrelated to MasterForger. SacredFlames may been involved in their forging.

The Ultimate Blacksmith is the only person in the world that can [[ElementalCrafting turn that ingot]] of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum]] into the InfinityPlusOneSword. Usually they lives in an isolated place, like a deep cave or near a volcano. Sometimes they may be reluctant to make weapons for anyone, even the hero, and may have sworn never again to forge an instrument of bloodshed. In this case, they must be persuaded to do so, for which money will likely have little effect, but appealing to saving the world might. If persuaded, they will probably feature as the star of a ForgingScene.

The Ultimate Blacksmith is the only person in the world that can [[ElementalCrafting turn that ingot]] of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum]] into the InfinityPlusOneSword. Usually he lives in an isolated place, like a deep cave or near a volcano. Sometimes he may be reluctant to make weapons for anyone, even the hero, and may have sworn never again to forge an instrument of bloodshed. In this case, he must be persuaded to do so, for which money will likely have little effect, but appealing to saving the world might. If persuaded, he will probably feature as the star of a ForgingScene.

Compare ForgedByTheGods, SwordOfPlotAdvancement and UltimateForge. See also TheBlacksmith. The weapons he forges may be so [[AbsurdlySharpBlade absurdly sharp]] that LikeCannotCutLike. May overlap with StockGods. Unrelated to MasterForger.

* The Giant Blacksmith in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' fits this pretty well. He's relatively difficult to reach compared to the other three blacksmiths and he is the only smith able to forge unique weapons with boss souls. He can also infuse normal weapons with lightning, the element associated with the GodEmperor Gwyn himself.
** Really, all the blacksmiths in the game could apply here. Andrei is a master at forging Divine and Occult weapons as well as the [[BoringButPractical incredibly valuable Normal ascension]], Rickert describes himself as the "best blacksmith in all of [[TheMagocracy Vinheim]]" and can ascend Magic weapons, and it's lucky that [[DemBones Vamos]] is still smithing despite being dead since both Fire and Chaos ascension is so useful.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', Sindri and Brokkr show up in this game and are just as skilled as their mythological counterparts. They were ones who forged the Leviathan Axe as a gift for Faye [[spoiler:to make up for their creation Mjolnir being used to slaughter her people the Giants]]. Throughout the game they can further upgrade the Leviathan Axe, making into a truly formidable weapon. Their skill is such that they can even [[spoiler:improve upon the Blades of Chaos, weapons imbued with magic that is foreign to Midgard.]]

* Pictured above: the dwarves of Nidavellir are some of the most accomplished smiths in the Realms, having forged weapons like the iconic Mjolnir wielded by Comicbook/TheMightyThor. In the ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'' comics, the dwarf Eoffren is introduced as a master of granting magic physical form who was abducted to create a weapon that could destroy entire worlds. He later teaches Stephen how to forge magical tools, leading Stephen Strange to create the very first magical artifact to bear his own name, a dimension cutting blade he named the Scalpel of Strange.

* Pictured above: the dwarves of Nidavellir are some of the most accomplished smiths in the Realms, having forged weapons like the iconic Mjolnir wielded by Comic/TheMightyThor. In the ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'' comics, the dwarf Eoffren is introduced as a master of granting magic physical form who was abducted to create a weapon that could destroy entire worlds. He later teaches Stephen how to forge magical tools, leading Stephen Strange to create the very first magical artifact to bear his own name, a dimension cutting blade he named the Scalpel of Strange.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Three of the Primarchs (basically living gods that were the super-templates for the SpaceMarines) were definitive Ultimate Blacksmiths. Vulcan was raised in a community where blacksmithing was everything, and he made his mark by fighting off an entire horde of Dark Eldar raiders with nothing but a pair of smithing hammers; he was only ever equaled by Fulgrim, a fellow Primarch, whose quirk of choice was being absolutely perfect at ''everything''. [[BilingualBonus Ferrus Manus]] (there are a lot of {{Meaningful Name}}s in ''Warhammer 40k''), meanwhile, once fought a silver dragon and beat it by ''dunking it into a volcanic lava flow''. When he lifted out, his hands were coated in living metal (hence, while never outright stated, the "dragon" is assumed to have actually been a cybernetic god known as a C'tan) that let him forge objects by hammering the materials with his sort-of-bare hands. Ferrus Manus and Fulgrim once actually competed to see who was ''the'' Ultimate Blacksmith. Fulgrim made an awesome warhammer and Ferrus Manus made an awesome sword; upon seeing each others' creations, they both declared the other was the superior smith and swapped weapons.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', Solus Prime, one of the Original Thirteen Primes, was the greatest smith/inventor in Transformer history. Her trademark tool, the Forge of Solus Prime, was a massive {{Magitek}} hammer capable of forging just about anything. Simply wielding it will turn a Prime into an Ultimate Blacksmith. [[spoiler:Megatron, after transplanting the arm of a dead Prime onto his own, used it to forge the Dark Star Saber, which was powerful enough to ''shatter'' the original Star Saber. Optimus later uses the Forge to upgrade the Autobots' Ground Bridge into a Space Bridge and reforge the Star Saber. However, it is limited by the individual's skill level. When asked if he simply forge a new copy of the Macguffin the Decepticons had stolen, Optimus laments that he doesn't possess the skill to do so, despite having just upgraded the bridge and repaired the saber, implying that the Macguffin in question was unimaginably complex.]]

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Compare ForgedByTheGods, SwordOfPlotAdvancement and UltimateForge. See also TheBlacksmith. The weapons he forges may be so [[AbsurdlySharpBlade absurdly sharp]] that LikeCannotCutLike. A SubTrope to StockGods.

** Tony Stark builds a power suit out of spare weapons parts as a prisoner in a weapons bunker. He later makes several improved versions of the suit, including one that converts into a suitcase. He also manages to create a new element using his own personal particle accelerator. In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[spoiler: Tony Stark cements his role as THE blacksmith of the MCU by replicating Eitri's (also an Ultimate Blacksmith as stated below) feat, not only building a ''replica Infinity Gauntlet'' out of nanotech but doing so without access to [[{{Unobtainium}} Uru]] or [[UltimateForge the heart of a neutron star.]]]]

** In ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'' he's apparently unable to create a turtle pendant for Mightily Oats after he lost his original one. He's still a ''darn good'' blacksmith though (and it's not like the ultimate achievement of blacksmithery is making turtles; he does craft a nifty pendant shaped more like something a blacksmith would be ''expected'' to be able to make).

** Dennis, Handyman of the Gods, fulfills the same function in ''Literature/TheLastHero''. He is seen at his forge repairing the spaceship that brought the adventurers to Dunmanifestin. It is explicitly said that every habitat of Gods gets its resident god of Making and Maintaining Things, as every house needs someone who can do basic repairs, hang doors, fix the roof, plaster a wall, shoe the horses of the Chariot of the Sun, etc, as without them it would all slump into wreckage and disrepair.

* The dwarf Telchar in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''. It was he who forged Narsil "in the depths of time", which would later become Aragorn's sword, Andúril.
** There was also Curufinwë/Fëanor, who was "pretty good" with weapons and armor and also crafted [[MineralMacguffin some trinkets]] that got mentioned in that work once or a few hundred times.

* Perrin Aybara in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''. While his blacksmithing skills are portrayed as being good, solid craftsman work throughout the series, in Towers at Midnight he has a scene where [[spoiler: he effectively smiths a Mjölnir clone.]]

** There used to be a lot of people who fit this trope; all Aes Sedai with skills in making power-wrought items. Most of the examples encountered are unbreakable blades, though any forged Angreal, Sa'angreal, or other Ter'angreal definitely counts.

** Ornn is one, as well, and it translates into the game as him being the only champion in the game able to buy (''forge'') items out of base, and also being able to create InfinityPlusOne versions of select items both for himself and his teammates, such as Infinity Edge becoming the Molten Edge (Giving 100 AD instead of 80), Rabadon's Deathcap becoming Rabadon's Deathcrown (Giving 175 AP instead of 135, and so on.

The Ultimate Blacksmith is the only person in the world that can [[ElementalCrafting turn that ingot]] of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum]] into the InfinityPlusOneSword. Usually he lives in an isolated place, like a deep cave or near a volcano. Sometimes he may be reluctant to make weapons for anyone, even the hero, and may have sworn never again to forge an instrument of bloodshed. In this case he must be persuaded to do so, for which money will likely have little effect, but appealing to saving the world might. If persuaded, he will probably feature as the star of a ForgingScene.

** Toshu, the swordsmith who forges the formidable Dakki. It's very noteworthy, since he's [[BadassNormal just a human]], yet able to forge a demonic weapon strong enough to (temporarily) steal Tessaiga's power. Dakki is eventually absorbed into Tessaiga and becomes just another power Inuyasha can use.

* In ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', Shigure Kosaka's late father was such an awesome weaponsmith that with a traditional forge and materials, he made weapons far superior to those the organization YAMI could make with state-of-the-art techniques and materials. YAMI eventually kidnaps Shigure, hoping she inherited her father's weapon-forging skills. She did, but since they're bad guys and she really doesn't want to work for them, she deliberately messes up each attempt. She forges weapons that ''seem'' perfect, but shatter like glass when hit in a certain spot, forges weapons that become soft like clay, and even trolls them by making a perfect katana that's so small you'd have to be six inches tall to wield it. When she does make real weapons, they record the process with high-tech equipment, but still fail to duplicate it. She winds up inflicting LimaSyndrome on the YAMI researchers observing her technique, who are all so inspired by watching her work that they become her apprentices.

* Old Man Kaseki in ''Manga/DrStone'' begins the series as a Stone Age village craftsman, already accomplished in woodworking and masonry. Then [[TeenGenius Senku]] shows a few failed attempts at glassblowing, and Kaseki's creative spirit is so fired up that he ''instantly'' gets it right the first time. Senku keeps introducing Kaseki to new fields like metalworking, and in the span of only a couple of years he goes from rope bridges and wooden shields to [[spoiler:katanas, vacuum tubes, and '''automobiles''']], often working entirely by himself.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' the Angel of Death wants to give up his job. When he finds a worthy soul, he melts down his Angelic Sword of Death and allows {{Satan}} to forge it into a pair of Colt revolvers. The result is a pair of pistols which never run out of ammo, never miss, and never fail to kill. The new Angel of Death, now named the Saint of Killers, immediately shoots the Devil in the head and kills him. [[spoiler: He later shoots and kills {{God}}.]]

* Hattori Hanzo in ''Film/KillBill'' is the greatest Japanese swordsmith in the world, to the extent that criminals and assassins would consider $1 million a reasonable price for a katana made by him. Eventually he was tormented that his swords were used to kill people and promised God that he would stop making them. The Bride needs one of his weapons to take on Bill and the Deadly Vipers for her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, so she tracks him down in Okinawa where he's been running a restaurant and convinces him to break his vow in order to make one last sword. He spends a month making it, and gives it to her in a highly formal ceremony. "I can tell you with no ego this is my finest sword. If on your journey, should you encounter God, [[BlasphemousPraise God will be cut.]]"

* Conan's dad in ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' was one of sorts (even opening the movie with one of the most epic {{Forging Scene}}s ever put on film). While there is nothing especially ''magical'' about the sword he crafts, it was in a time when ordinary steel was more rare and valuable than gold, and mentions to young Conan the "Riddle of Steel" as having been stolen from the gods. Who or whatever forged Conan's ''Atlantean'' sword, however, might fit this trope to a far greater degree.

** Outside the Pit of Doom are the forgers of the Mydraal's cursed weapons. Besides being this trope, they also have to bathe the blades in the tainted streams outside their forges, and then kill and innocent person with them. They're fun guys.

* Daja and her teacher Frostpine from ''Literature/CircleOfMagic''. Both of them have power over metal, fire and smithing, and can create truly amazing pieces of work. Daja in particular produces some impressive stuff out of the living brass growing on her arm.

* ''Literature/{{Feral}}'' has Char. A half-Orc blacksmith who makes the sort of armor that wouldn't look out of place in most sci-fi stories, and can do some crazy things with limited materials. Over the course of the story he is responsible for two different armors, both of which enhance physical ability, feature jumpjets that increase leaping height, and one of which increases magical power. He also makes a crude blunderbuss, a knife and gauntlet that emits electricity, and makes chromoly steel. All in the course of a couple weeks.

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* [[OurTitansAreDifferent Autochthon]] [[MechanicalLifeform the Great Maker]] of ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has been implied to embody this concept as part of his conceptual nature; among his more impresssive accomplishments, he invented the titular Exalted, plus a whole mess of other artifacts which allowed them to take down his fellow [[JerkassGods Primordials.]] Among one of the most legendary is the plot-changing level artifact called the Eye of Autochthon (which may be [[BodyToJewel literally what it says]]) which can [[RealityWarper pretty much do anything imaginable]] [[GameBreaker provided it's on the scale of a castle or bigger.]]

** Salamanders are usually this -- not only do they have a [[ProudWarriorRace strong warrior culture]], meaning weapons are in high demand, but being [[ElementalEmbodiment fire elementals]] means that they can heat their forges to absurd temperatures and sculpt molten metal with their bare hands.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Reign}}'', the Dindavarans have this reputation due to their secret school of magic, which allows them to produce magical swords. They guard their secrets jealously and with good reason, since the greatest of weapons require a HumanSacrifice.

** Gerolt from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' takes up the mantle of the Relic Weapon maker. He's, simply put, a lazy drunkard who swears like a sailor and sends you run errands in every single corner of the world just to get you off his back for a couple of minutes, but he's also the best craftsman the world has ever known, no joke. Have some ancient worn-out armor that was the cream of the crop back then? Just toss it in his furnace with some items and ''the armor will travel back in time'' until when it was pristine. Need to restore a very powerful and ancient weapon? Go do an enormous FetchQuest and come back to him, just to hear him say he made up the quest so you'll leave him alone, but since you went through it, might as well take ''a couple minutes'' off his "drink and snooze" agenda to restore your weapon. Need to fix some ancient technology that makes the current one look like wind-up toys and puzzles even the greatest scholars ? ''No problem'' as long as you piss off and leave him alone after that.

** The first, original, ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden|I}}'', however, did things differently - you recruited a whole ''bunch'' of smiths, each better than the last, and finally had to go find the Ultimate Smith (who was, indeed, hidden in a hut at the end of forever) - and bring all of the other smiths with you, since they're all students of his. Together, they persuade him to join you!

** Downplayed in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''; there are no blacksmiths, but some merchants will offer to repair your weapons and armor in exchange for [[WeirdCurrency bottle caps]]. But no merchant have a perfect 100 Repair skill. Only ''you'', the player, can have that through leveling, making you the best repairman in the state.

** The ''Warden's Keep'' DLC has Mikhael Dryden, who will appear at the Soldier's Peak after you beat the associated quest. Given a lump of Meteor Metal, he'll forge Starfang, a Longsword or a Greatsword that is superior to pretty much every other weapon in its class in the unmodded original game.

** Branka of House Branka was such an extraordinary smith that she was made a noble and elevated to a Paragon, the divine ancestors of the dwarves, during her lifetime. The actual achievement that got her the honor wasn't smithing directly, it was developing a form of of "smokeless coal" which increased city-wide production and ended the scourge of Black Lung. However, even she is by far surpassed by the Paragon Caradin, who created a magical forge to craft the Golems used by the Ancient Dwarven Empire to combat the Darkspawn, but his Thaig and his secrets [[LostSuperweapon were lost]] during the First Blight. Two years before the start of the game, Branka lead her entire house (except for her husband Oghren) into the Deep Roads on an expedition to find it [[spoiler: and is ultimately revealed to have sacrificed them ''all'' either to the Darkspawn or to test the Thaig's defenses, overwhelmed by [[GoldFever her desire to claim the forge]]]].

* The player character in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness''. You get to buy some majorly weaksauce weapons, and get one or two handed out to you early on. Then you make the rest, of your ENTIRE ARSENAL, by using a crafting system involving some [[RandomlyDrops rather rare]] materials.

* ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'' has, well, Muramasa. In a departure from the norm, you meet him in chapter two and can call upon him to craft you new weapons whenever you have the necessary souls, life-force and level (as well as the prerequisite swords) for them: He lives in an alternate dimension any wielder of a Muramasa blade can access. His best weapons are only accessible after you've cleared both stories, however, and the InfinityPlusOneSword, one so powerful it ''cuts fate'', only at level 90 and above.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Strongly implied with Suwako: she is a goddess of the earth and can/[[{{Gotterdammerung}} could]] create new soil as she please. She used to own an impressive arsenal of metal weaponry, which she used to pacify the curse-gods of [[GodEmperor her kingdom]]. Unfortunately it meaned little when she fought Kanako, who, being the goddess of rain, rusted all of Suwako's weapons.

* Doran used to be this in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', until he tried to move out of his secluded retreat. He got kicked in the head by his horse when he was changing the wheel on his cart and suffered severe brain damage. Now he can only make weak, high-quality equipment. One of the few pieces of his ultimate weaponry still in use is the staff Wukong uses.

* In ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'', the grandfather of Kei Sakurai, Musashi, was commissioned by the L.D.O. to create a replica of the holy lance Longinuslanze Testament. This was due to the lance being a case of OnlyTheChosenMayWield, and as such they sought to make something with a similar amount of power but that could be wielded by anyone. They however ended up underestimating his talent, and he managed to create an unholy version of the lance that is just just picky with it's wielders as the original.

** Well, not ''quite'' that accessible: Artificers are usually [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds young girls that are in so much pain due to uncontrolled magic]] that they pratically ''beg'' to be [[MarkedChange tattooed]] and [[HappinessInSlavery bonded to someone]], destroying all [[EmotionlessGirl personality and sense of self]]. ''Caitlin'', on the other hand, is a perpetually [[UnstoppableRage pissed off]] [[SuperSoldier former Black Ops]] [[TheGunslinger marksman]] who will beat the crap out of anyone who tries to force her to do anything against her will. Oh, and she also used to be a [[GenderBender male Marine/range instructor]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', Solus Prime, one of the Original Thirteen Primes, was the greatest smith/inventor in Transformer history. Her trademark tool, the Forge of Solus Prime, was a massive {{Magitek}} hammer capable of forging just about anything. Simply wielding it will turn a Prime into an Ultimate Blacksmith. [[spoiler:Megatron, after transplanting the arm of a dead Prime onto his own, used it to forge the Dark Star Saber, which was powerful enough to ''shatter'' the original Star Saber. Optimus later uses the Forge to upgrade the Autobots' Ground Bridge into a Space Bridge and reforge the Star Saber. However it is limited by the individual's skill level. When asked if he simply forge a new copy of the Macguffin the Decepticons had stolen, Optimus laments that he doesn't possess the skill to do so, despite having just upgraded the bridge and repaired the saber, implying that the Macguffin in question was unimaginably complex.]]

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** In ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'' he's apparently unable to create a turtle pendant for Mightily Oats after he lost his original one. He's still a ''darn good'' blacksmith though (and it's not like the ultimate achievement of blacksmithery is making turtles; he does craft a nifty pendant shaped more like something a blacksmith would be ''expected'' to be able to make).
** In ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'', he actually[[spoiler: shoes a unicorn with silver horseshoes]].

** It's also described in ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'' as being a familial skill, which appears to work as follows: So long as the Smith of Lancre shoes any animal brought to him, he will have the ability to shoe any animal brought to him.
** Dennis, Handyman of the Gods, fulfills the same function in ''Discworld/TheLastHero''. He is seen at his forge repairing the spaceship that brought the adventurers to Dunmanifestin. It is explicitly said that every habitat of Gods gets its resident god of Making and Maintaining Things, as every house needs someone who can do basic repairs, hang doors, fix the roof, plaster a wall, shoe the horses of the Chariot of the Sun, etc, as without them it would all slump into wreckage and disrepair.

* In TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}, three of the Primarchs (basically living gods that were the super-templates for the SpaceMarines) were definitive Ultimate Blacksmiths. Vulcan was raised in a community where blacksmithing was everything, and he made his mark by fighting off an entire horde of Dark Eldar raiders with nothing but a pair of smithing hammers; he was only ever equaled by Fulgrim, a fellow Primarch, whose quirk of choice was being absolutely perfect at ''everything''. [[BilingualBonus Ferrus Manus]] (there are a lot of [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Names]] in Warhammer 40k), meanwhile, once fought a silver dragon and beat it by ''dunking it into a volcanic lava flow''. When he lifted out, his hands were coated in living metal (hence, while never outright stated, the "dragon" is assumed to have actually been a cybernetic god known as a C'tan) that let him forge objects by hammering the materials with his sort-of-bare hands. Ferrus Manus and Fulgrim once actually competed to see who was ''the'' Ultimate Blacksmith. Fulgrim made an awesome warhammer and Ferrus Manus made an awesome sword; upon seeing each others' creations, they both declared the other was the superior smith and swapped weapons.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', the oldest and most experienced of the dwarven runesmiths can occasionally get this sort of reputation. The most famous of them is Alaric the Mad, who created a number of famous artifacts that all outlived him. He was known as 'the Mad' because he created twelve identical weapons with the same enchantments on them (the runefangs of the Empire's elector counts), which is against the runesmiths' [[WeirdTradeUnion union rules]].
* A high-level Artificer in the ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' setting for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' will eventually fall into this. As well, House Cannith which possesses the Mark of Making generally has the appropriate reputation - the most famously skilled craftsman alive is Merrix d'Cannith, one of the heads of the house, who spends most of his time furthering his ancestor's research into developing the warforged, a race of intelligent constructs they invented. [[spoiler:Though actually it was more like a race they cribbed from bits and pieces left behind in the ancient giants' ruins.]]
** Salamanders are usually this - not only do they have a [[ProudWarriorRace strong warrior culture]], meaning weapons are in high demand, but being [[ElementalEmbodiment fire elementals]] means that they can heat their forges to absurd temperatures and sculpt molten metal with their bare hands.