Urist Ironeyes
A mountain dwarf of The Time of the Eight, and arguably one of the founding bloodlines of the hill dwarves, or Gilden.
While Dwarven and Human lore differ on who first unlocked the secrets of bronze metallurgy, according to both Dwarven and Human Lore, it was Urist Ironeyes who first discovered the secret of working iron.
According to legend, Urist was a great warrior and bane of the evil creatures of the world, born well enough into the Time of the Eight that the Dwarves were well established in the tunnels and dark recesses of the world, and had even begun to carve underground fortifications with bronze tools. One season, a great crisis called Urist and the other great warriors of his clan away on a ranging, and in their absence a great reckoning was visited on the Mountainhome, somewhere in the region now known as The Scar, destroying it utterly. Amid the ruins of the Mountainhome, Urist's divine-blooded eyes were able to discern a strange ore throughout the newly created wasteland: Star Iron.
It is here that Dwarven sources differ from Human ones. According to Dwarven lore, Urist and his ranging party gathered the material and forged from it the first weapons of the world, which they used to fight their way out of the now ruined and monster riddled wasteland. Upon reaching the shores of the eastern seas, where the flagstones of the first above ground Dwarven city would be laid. In time, one of those swords - to become known as Kinslayer - was given to the Sidhe by Urist, the first Overchief. According to Human lore, the Elven kinslayer and regicide Tedril Eladrith forged the fateful sword himself, driven by greed to instrument of the first murder in order to seize the Immortal Throne. From Elven sources there is no account of either incident at all, beyond the deed itself, surviving surviving in a single line of the fragmentary epic Sidhe poem of creation translated by the hand of an Ubrekti historian: "And our immortal light bled from the wound."
According to legend, Urist died in the aftermath of single combat with a colossal demon, his stariron weapon able to pierce the creature's hide where bronze, stone, and spear could not.
