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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samloyal23" data-source="post: 5875112" data-attributes="member: 21432">Hans Bremer is taller and leaner than most Iron Dwarves, having what passes for a "lanky" figure among his peers in Burghausen, and his time spent outdoors keeps him tan. Coming from a long line of famous armourers, Hans was a bit of an embarrassment for his family when he eschewed metal in his crafts to work with glass and ceramics. When Hans started producing mirrors most of his kin wrote him off as a loss and pretended he didn't exist. Socially ostracized, he threw himself into his work even harder, producing mirrors of every size and shape.It was not glass that interested Hans, however, but light. Has was obsessed with the way light reflected off surfaces and believed with all his heart that there was nothing stronger or more useful than a ray of light. So, cautiously, he debuted a sampling of his work to a few friends in Burhausen, using solar ovens to ignite coals in a dish and boil a pot of water. "Heat without smoke or flame," he proclaimed, "means no black lungs, no gas explosions in smithies, and no felling trees to make charcoal." Most of the crowd scoffed, calling his work frivolous, but two of his friends saw some potential in the idea and agreed to go into producing solar ovens. It has taken over a hundred years, but the Bremer-Egils-Frydenland Company has debuted the Dragon Gate, a colossal solar forge that smelts the hardest metals and was recently used as a weapon to fight the dragon Greystorm when that beast attacked the city gates. The Burghausen Althing has contracted the company to produce a set of communal forges for public use to allow less prosperous miners to smelt their ore for free.In Skytop Village, Lady Xoc, the chief of the Tutyatl tribe of the Aarakocra, has contracted the company to produce solar ovens for her people, who tend to be averse to fire and concerned with the safety of their arboreal homes.</blockquote>

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