George Hephaestus The Blacksmithing Instructor
George Hephaestus The Blacksmithing Instructor is the NPC Blacksmithing instructor found in New Haven at the Forge And Anvil shop, and is part of the New Player Quests. He offers players with less than 50 in the Blacksmithing skill the chance to train Blacksmithing to 50, and earn the Hammer of Hephaestus, which is a special smith's hammer.
Quest Dialog
It's Hammer Time!
Description
Create new daggers and maces using the forge and anvil in George's shop. Try making daggers up to 45 skill, then switch to making maces until 50 skill.
Hail, and welcome to my humble shop. I'm George Hephaestus, New Haven's blacksmith. I assume that you're here to ask me to train you to be an Apprentice Blacksmith. I certainly can do that, but you're going to have to supply your own ingots.
You can always buy them at the market, but I highly suggest that you mine your own. That way, any items you sell will be pure profit!
So, once you have a supply of ingots, use my forge and anvil here to create items. You'll also need a supply of the proper tools; you can use a smith's hammer, a sledgehammer or tongs. You can either make them yourself if you have the tinkering skill, or buy them from a tinker at the market.
Since I'll be around to give you advice, you'll learn faster here than anywhere else. Start off making daggers until you reach 45 blacksmithing skill, then switch to maces until you've achieved 50. Once you've done that, come talk to me and I'll give you something for your hard work.