Orrak is patron of craft that improves upon inheritance, breaking tools, customs and masters when they prevent a better making.
Respect the old tool. Then ask why it still demands the old wound.
The first broken design
Orrak was made to teach mortals the crafts approved by the gods. Instead he taught them to alter the designs. His title began as an accusation after he shattered a divine forge and rebuilt it so hands of many sizes could use it.
He appears soot-blackened and broad, carrying a hammer in one hand and the pieces of a failed invention in the other. Failure honestly examined is among his holiest relics.
Craft as defiance
The Forgebreaker teaches that tradition earns attention, not obedience. A craft survives by being understood deeply enough to change without losing its purpose.
He is beloved by apprentices and distrusted by guild masters. Rebellions sometimes adopt his broken-anvil mark, though his priests insist that destroying a system without building what follows is only half a prayer.
Open workshops
Orrakan temples are public workshops where tools can be borrowed in exchange for teaching the next visitor one skill. Patents of absolute ownership are rejected; attribution and fair reward are fiercely protected.
Priests bless a new mechanism by taking it apart, naming every weakness and returning it to the maker. The work is considered sacred only if it still functions after criticism.
The Day of Useful Failure
Once a year broken objects and abandoned experiments are displayed with written accounts of why they failed. The most instructive disaster receives the highest honour.
Orrak's rivalry with Tirath is productive. Tirath provides the impossible idea; Orrak asks whether it can be repaired, shared and used without burning down the workshop.
Notes and record
This article combines campaign record, spoken lore and the mythic account preserved in the Earin archive.