Handmade ring Lore Entry:

Some metals yield to the hammer, softening when struck. But not this one. Copper grows harder beneath pressure. Toughening, tightening, becoming more itself each time it is faced with force. It is a metal that refuses to yield the same way twice.

This ring was forged from reclaimed copper that behaved unlike any the workshop had seen. When it was first laid on the anvil, the strike of the hammer sent blue-white sparks shooting into the air; brief, burning embers that flared and vanished like fireflies made of ash. Each blow woke the metal a little more, until the whole piece seemed to glow from the inside, as though remembering its own origin in the earth’s molten heart.

What emerged from that strange shower of blue cinders was a copper band hardened through pressure, strengthened by every moment of resistance. Its surface bears the ridges and scars of the process, not polished away, not hidden; because each texture, each hammer mark, reveals it’s true strength.

Those who wear the Copper Band of Strength say it warms quickly to the skin.
Some claim it steadies the hands.
Others swear they feel it stiffen against their touch when facing something difficult, as though reminding them:

What endures is what has been shaped by pressure.
What strengthens is what refuses to break.

A ring for the ones who have learned the same lesson as copper—
that resilience is not born in peace,
but in the sparks that fly when you’re struck…
and when you choose to keep your shape anyway.