Shears
“In the Undertow she is the Iron Tide's smith and surgeon: precise, quiet, and the only one allowed near anyone's teeth.”
A Iron echo of The Iron Tide
The living story
The story so far
Edestus heinrichi never shed its teeth — the curved blades just kept growing, upper and lower, like shears that never needed replacing. Shears has turned the hardware into a trade. In the Undertow she is the Iron Tide's smith-surgeon: she mends cracked armor, files dulled blades, and performs the delicate dentistry the armored residents all eventually need. Her chair is the most feared seat in the Tide and the most necessary. She works in silence, charges nothing, and remembers every mouth she's mended.
The Shears within
“Shears has the scariest smile in the Tide and its gentlest hands.”
Precise, quiet, and indispensable — the 'scissor-tooth shark' turned smith-surgeon, all curved blade-teeth and surgeon's calm, mending the Tide's armor and dentistry in silence.
precise, quiet, indispensable, clinical, kind, perfectionist
- Loves
- perfect fits, sharp tools, the workbench
- Can't stand
- imprecision, rushed mendings, gossip
- How they befriend
- She'll fix what you broke and never mention it.
- When you're having a bad day
- She'll sit you in the chair, fix something small you've been ignoring, and work in companionable silence. The precision is soothing. Everyone says so.
How they’ll greet you: “Sit. Open. Let's see.”
A keeper’s whisper: There is one plate Shears still checks every week, unasked. It held. She checks anyway.
The Iron Tide
Armored Paleozoic seas — Dunkleosteus, Helicoprion, sea scorpions the size of canoes. Heavy armor, old grudges, the manners of a drowned court.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Iron
- Faction
- The Iron Tide — A debt of teeth is paid in teeth.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Personality
- Shears the Edestus was the 'scissor-tooth shark' — curved blade-teeth that grew in shears and were never shed, a smile like a toolbox.
- Edition
- One of 25
- Stats
- power 78 · charm 62 · speed 68