Eirich Array has lived a long, and mundane life. In her youth, she was a smith, forging weapons from the finest steels and selling them far and wide. Over the years, she became a perfectionist in her work, wanting to create not just a good weapon, but the best weapon. Though many relied on magic to do this, she believed that with the proper alloy, forged in the right way, she could make a powerful weapon made purely without magic. She dedicated her long life to the pursuit of finding the perfect alloy, and she has been determined to get it. Whether through trade, chemistry, alloying, prayer, going through records of the oldest civilizations, or going to the New World, she will have her hands on the perfect alloy.