Eyo, been thinking of a character raised by dwarves, who's tired of seeing people hoist up hand me downs as 'ancient artifacts of great power' and joined the Iron Rose as a blacksmith to maintain their weaponry while on the road, as well as having them test out new weapons and inventions and all. A tinkerer sorta fellow, as it were.

Also, do primitive firearms exist at all? Or does the existence of magic and superhuman physical ability generally regress the progression of projectile weaponry?