Domains: Forge, Knowledge (craft) | Alignment: Lawful Neutral Symbol: A hammer resting inside an unbroken circle Holy Day: Ember's Rest, the one day per season smiths are expected not to work
Korvath is a working god in the most literal sense — patron of anyone who takes raw material and makes it into something that outlasts them. His faith has no need for grand cathedrals, on the doctrine that every forge already functions as one. This isn't false modesty; it's genuinely how his worship operates. A smith who takes real pride and care in their work is, functionally, practicing Korvath's faith whether they'd describe it that way or not.
Almost entirely informal. There is no ordained Korvath priesthood in the traditional sense — master smiths are treated with a respect that blurs into religious deference, and the closest thing to clergy are guild elders who oversee craft standards as much as spiritual ones.
Korvath is said to have once forged a sword with a hidden flaw, deliberately, and given it to a boastful young smith claiming to have made it himself. When the blade shattered in front of a crowd, Korvath revealed himself only to say: "I didn't shame you. You shamed yourself the moment you claimed hands that weren't yours." The story is told to apprentices as both a warning against dishonesty and a reminder that craft has its own built-in justice.
Cinderbruk's Forgeworks functions as the closest thing to a central temple, though it's officially an industrial site, not a religious one — the overlap is understood and rarely commented on directly.
Quiet mutual respect with Vesk (both understand permanence and its limits — a well-made object and a well-lived life share a certain integrity in Korvath's worldview). Genuine friction with Sevanna, whose embrace of chaos and unpredictability offends his sense that good work requires patience and control.
Knowingly selling defective work is considered worse than theft — theft merely steals value, but fraud corrupts the meaning of craftsmanship itself, which is close to the closest thing Korvath's faith has to a genuine sin.