The Forge of Fire is a temple in the Edgelands featured in Fable: The Journey.
Overview[]
The Forge of Fire is a temple of the Enlightened located within Thorndeep in the Edgelands. The temple bears the Willstone of Blaze.
Found past the eastern reaches of Thorndeep, the Forge of Fire is appropriately located in the Lava Fields that border Thorndeep and Miremoor. The temple was built during the anarchist period of Albion's history, following the collapse of the Old Kingdom, to test the worthiness of someone seeking the Willstone of Blaze, utilizing a series of puzzles and fire-traps to do so. Although the temple is guarded by Bob and Finley, two wisps who were once members of the Enlightened, the area has become completely overrun in the constant centuries since the fall of the Kingdom, and is now occupied by endless swarms of rockmites and more than one pack of balverines.
The halls that contains the challenges that any hero seeking the willstone must face is composed by many structures of mechanical engineering and many fire-related devices (like inflammable-gas pipes), which all serve the purpose of granting access to the many levels of the temple, via bridges over the many lava ponds and elevators to higher levels inside, or aid in the battle against the forces that invaded the place, to whoever is able to activate the mechanisms.
However, the temple itself, is of magical nature and resembles the one Gabriel found inside the Spirit Chambers, being composed mainly by the magic pool in which Gabriel is able to retrieve the willstone and a tree which, in this temple, is ablaze as a manifest of Blaze’s fire based powers. Once Gabriel has acquired the willstone for himself, the fire power of the Forge of Fire is extinguished.
Forge Camp[]
A small campsite is located in the lava fields outside the temple amidst ancient mechanisms and quarry workings. The camp contains a water trough and a small cave.
Lore[]
Fable: The Journey[]
Inside the temple, Gabriel obtained the willstone of Sol with the aid of Bob and Finley and battles huge hordes of rockmites and balverines in his way out.
Trivia[]
- Although a relic of the years following the fall of the Old Kingdom, the design of the Forge of Fire represents a radical departure from traditional Old Kingdom style architecture, bearing cogs, elevators, and steam engines much more reminiscent of the Industrial Revolution. Whether this is an indication of the Old Kingdom's technological prowess, an oversight by the developers, or sheer coincidence is unknown.
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