Below the point humans have reached, far below earths surface lies a vast city where beings that seem to almost steal human physiology wander around as if pressure meant nothing. Metal creatures, old as the planet, live safely here within the walls of a place known as Ferrias. These people known as the Aranams resemble humans and can even think as complexly as they can. Their skin resembles metal such as Iron or Cobalt, the metals they are made of. However, the only reason these people can live in such peace in a thriving underground city is because of two of their own. Who selflessly exiled themselves to the border of the land they live on. Two people who accepted that they would be hated by the people they protected. They draw their blades and defend Ferrias at it's borders from other creatures who live in the vast ocean of magma these two patrol. These creatures, known as forge-demons, crave the bodies of the land dwelling Aranams, some take their bodies and 'wear' them as their own, some try to eat them while most simply beat them into submission for the thrill of it, only to drag their trophies into the magma far below them to do who knows what. These two Aranams have spent ages fending their city off from the forge-demons, they are known as Corrundos and Tariks. Corrundos, the swift and calculating Aranam wielding two swords unlike anything else, these swords seem to be simple single edges blades but have small firearm barrels on one end, something scarcely seen in Ferrias. And Tariks, the titan of the metal world, the violent but respectful Aranam wielding a large slab of sharpened metal referred to as a Pendulum sword. These two Aranams have spent most of their lives together and have bonded together like brothers. Every one both respects them yet fears them much more, to them, such strength to defeat such things makes them unpredictable, "If they could stop so many of them, what else can they do?" Was more than common talk in Ferrias. Yet they owe their very lives to them, other wise they'd likely be at the bottom of a magma pool, being chewed in half by the same creatures Corrundos and Tarkis deal with.