Draft:Shiren 3 Wii:Blacksmith
Introduction
The blacksmith Kumaji resides in his own house within Otsutsuki Village. You can easily identify this house as it has a large red banner on the front of it. He lives with his children Sato and Kasuke. The blacksmith in this game is fairly unique compared to other games in the Shiren franchise as he is actually locked from the player at the start. He is severely ill, thus incapacitating him and preventing you from utilizing his services right away. This won't be remedied until you finish what can be considered a side quest of sorts. The rest of this introduction tab will go into detail for unlocking the blacksmith while his services will be detailed further below. To unlock the Blacksmith, first speak with the daughter Sato who will be attempting to sell a riceball out front of the shop. They wish to do this to help their sick father and feed themselves. She will charge you 600 Gitans at first though you can barter to lower this price. However much you give them does not have a strong impact on the game. After doing this, you will want to speak with the sick blacksmith at any point during the game, as he will give you a story about himself and this trigger is needed to do the next part. After you speak with him, check his work bench in the room and start clicking your action button, you should find and obtain the tattered scroll key item. After this, you will want to speak with the blacksmith's ancestor in the past. You can do this at any time after unlocking the past, the earliest would be after completing Ochimizu Pass in the main story. Doing that opens up Otsutsuki Village in the past to you. Simply visit the blacksmith's shop in the past and speak with the ancestor while you have the tattered scroll in your possession. He will give you medicine for his distant relative and fix the scroll as well. Finally, return to the sick blacksmith and he will now provide his services to you after you enter any dungeon and return to Otsutsuki Village.
Services
Each of the blacksmith's services are limited to being utilized once per visit in this game. After which he will have some strange excuse such as running out of materials preventing the player from rapidly abusing his services. They will refresh upon entering and exiting any dungeon. Temper : Temper your weapon or shield for 1500 Gitans. This will add +1 to the chosen weapon or shield, rarely it will instead add +3 to the item. Items can only be strengthened up to their maximum value by using this method.
Purge : Purge any seal on your weapon, shield, or armband for 5000 Gitan. This option can only purge additional seals added to an item through melding, it can not purge the original ability that comes with any given item. Doing this leaves the seal slot open for a new seal to be added.
Add Slot : Add a seal slot to your weapon, shield, or armband for 10,000 Gitan and a random item requested by the blacksmith. All 3 types of items can have their seal slots increased up to the maximum of 12. Performing this option will also have the blacksmith tell you a riddle regarding an item transformation. Please refer to the item transformation page for more details regarding that feature of the game.
Notes
Before the first time you speak with the blacksmith regarding adding a slot, make sure you save your game on the over world. By doing so you can save scum the item he requests of you. This can be really important to avoid missing out on using this feature anytime during a relevant part of your play through, as the blacksmith can ask for any item in the game without reservation. Often times he asks for extremely rare post game dungeon items that can be insanely difficult to come by. After you speak with him, should you save your game the item he requests of you will be locked. After the first time you use this feature, make sure that you always save your game before using the add slot feature to enhance your gear. He locks into his request item as soon as you use the feature, so you can reset if you don't like the next item he asks of you. Though doing this method can be slightly time consuming as you will have to constantly reload and re-add the slot to your item until a favorable request item appears.