[@Lugubrious] I've got a post in mind, but I need to know how close to completing the sword the smith is, or rather how close it appears to be to "complete", in order to gauge the exact timings for what Crue does - if the sword is seemingly very near completion, he's likely to wait until the smith finishes before drawing attention to himself, whereas if the smith's taking some time on it, he'd probably make his presence known reasonably soon so as to not get caught out by his opponent prematurely.