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* Biggoron, who made the Biggoron Sword from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''{{VideoGame/The Legend Of Zelda Oracle|Games}} of Seasons''. In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'', you get the [[spoiler: Mirror Shield]] from him, instead.
** The dwarves that have to be reunited in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', though they improve an existing weapon rather than making a new one.
** The [[spoiler:Subrosan Smithies]] from ''Oracle of Ages'' and ''Oracle of Seasons''.
** Zauz from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'', who lives on a secret island. He makes the [[spoiler:Phantom Sword, which is the only way you can defeat the Phantoms, as opposed to merely avoiding them.]]
** The Lorulean Blacksmith from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', a case of BrilliantButLazy, he upgrades your Red Sword into the Golden Sword. The Hyrulean Blacksmith is only slightly behind him, upgrading the Master Sword into the Red Sword.
* In the "vanilla" era of the game, ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' had it so that one of the best Blacksmithing sets was made entirely of Dark Iron. Thing is, you had to get the recipes by sucking up to the Thorium Brotherhood Dwarves by collecting iron scraps and iron dust for them. And it took eight pieces of Dark Iron Ore to make one bar of Dark Iron. And you had to go into a ''fucking dungeon'' so that you could smelt the stuff in a furnace hooked up to the freaking ''lava flow''.

** Eitri as a matter of course, given that he forged Mjolnir. Far more prominent, though, is Tony Stark - aside from building a suit in a cave with a bunch of scraps, he also designed the 'Prometheus' armour that's described by a flabbergasted Peter Wisdom as a "planetary scale emergency" even ''incomplete'', and the conventional weaponry on it is described as mere "punctuation." The later, completed version, is tough enough that the borderline omnipotent [[spoiler: Nimue]] registers its "annoyingly resilient" defences and her OffhandBackhand only turns it salt rather thaan him along with it.

*** Eorlund Gray-mane, the Companions' smith and the man in charge of running the legendary Sky-forge, is one. During the Companions' quest line, he will eventually forge you a brand new Skyforge Steel weapon (a DiscOneNuke). Later, he will [[ReforgedBlade reforge]] the [[LegendaryWeapon legendary]] [[AnAxeToGrind Wuuthrad]] once the fragments of the ancient axe are gathered. He is also the Master Smithing trainer, meaning he can help you become an Ultimate Blacksmith in your own right. In-universe, he is quite rightly regarded as the best smith in all of Skyrim, although the smiths at the entrance to Whiterun get more business because Eorlund does his work mostly for the pleasure of smithing, particularly for the Companions.

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The Ultimate Blacksmith is the only person in the world that can [[ElementalCrafting turn that ingot]] of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum]] into the InfinityPlusOneSword. They often live in isolation, usually some place where they have access to the planet's natural ores 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.

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 be involved in their forging process.

* Thursagan in ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'''s Scepter of Fire campaign. Lives in a mountain.

* ''LightNovel/TheSacredBlacksmith'' has, of course, the blacksmith himself, Luke Ainsworth, thus the title. Two things set him apart: One, he uses higher-quality iron than most smiths in the region and hand-forges rather than casting (which is weaker). Two, he has a magical ability to forge short-lived katanas with the help of his partner Lisa.

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* [[OldMaster Un'no]] of ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamSEEDAstray'' is a master swordsmith who's equally adept at making his [[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas]] human-sized or [[HumongousMecha mobile suit]]-sized. And crazy-skilled at wielding them, too. [[spoiler:Shortly before his death]], he teaches protagonist Lowe Guele how to make mobile suit-sized katanas, and [[HotBlooded Lowe being Lowe]], he takes it UpToEleven by making one with a [[{{BFS}} 150-meter blade]].

* The Titans of ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'' take this up to eleven having forged ''the entire universe''. In season 3, the Titan Bolo demonstrates this by forging a massive Titan-sized sword by ''crushing a red dwarf star in his bare hands'' and having Mooncake blast it.

* ''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.

* In ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', spells are what is smithed. They're a bit like suits: anyone with magical talent and enough power can cast one, but spells tailored to someone's specific eidos signature will always be faster and less exhausting than the generic version. A really good spell engineer can amplify a magician's power several levels beyond what s/he could achieve on their own, which is why engineers are often kept on retainer by wealthy magicians and the ones who have built superweapons have to have their names registered with the government.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' had two alternate universe versions of their ultimate blacksmith, Zappa, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters one of whom can join your party]]. If you bring playable-Zappa to talk with NPC-Zappa, they'll combine forces and figure out how to forge the rainbow shell into powerful weapons, most of which are [[InfinityPlusOneSword infinity-plus-one swords]].

* ''Franchise/ShiningSeries'':

** Eitri as a matter of course, given that he forged Mjolnir. Far more prominent, though, is Tony Stark - aside from building a suit in a cave with a bunch of scraps, he also designed the 'Prometheus' armour that's described by a flabbergasted Peter Wisdom as a "planetary scale emergency" even ''incomplete'', and the conventional weaponry on it is described as mere "punctuation."

** With the expanded [[ItemCrafting crafting]] system in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' you'll most likely once again end up one of these. The VendorTrash and junk you scavenge can be broken down in raw components like steel or wood that you can use to build upgrades to armor and weapons. With a high enough [[GeniusBruiser Strength and Intelligence]] you can pick up perks that allow you to craft even better weapon and armor mods or settlement objects. The perk for Melee Weapon upgrades is even called Blacksmith. With all the perks you can easily build advanced mods for PowerArmor or EnergyWeapons.

The Ultimate Blacksmith is the only person in the world that can [[ElementalCrafting turn that ingot]] of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum]] into the InfinityPlusOneSword. Usually they live 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.

* Galein Musica from ''Manga/RaveMaster'' is considered to be the greatest swordsmith ever to have lived and created the sword that the protagonist uses. Unfortunately, his family was slain by his own sword, he gave up the profession before Haru convinced him to fix it again.

** 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. One of his lines has him claim to be Doran's mentor.

* Naruto in FanFic/AGrowingAffection just might be this. He forges his staff-blade Kitsune [[MemeticMutation On the side of the road!]] [[Film/IronMan With a bunch of disposable kunai!]] It stands up to Orochimaru's legendary artifact Kusanagi. He creates even more impressive weapons for Hinata and Sakura.

** 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.

* Black Gnarl from ''VideoGame/{{AnvilOfDawn}}'' is basically Ultimate Blacksmith The Videogame. Most of the game consist of gathering items for forging of final Macguffin. Forging scene even have some catchy singing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGwnmlglEi0 as seen here]]