The Smith - Masks: A New Generation Playbook

You’re good with your hands. You leave the inventing up to clever folks, but they’re going to need someone to build it all the same. Building is more than a job for you though, it’s a quest for the perfect, a quest you’re afraid you’ll never complete.

 The Smith's themes are all about self improvement, struggle and taking too much on one's plate, overworked and underappreciated. While the Smith may good with their hands, they're often not good at knowing when to take breaks or how to accept failure. This pushes them to do better, always improving even if there's nothing left to improve.

This drive for self improvement and constant crushing grind is encapsulated in their Extra Mechanic Masterwork. The Smith has a tool, weapon or item that they've given their lives to, to make it the greatest work of art they've ever crafted. This requires testing, constant revision and failure, driving the Smith to throw themselves and their emotions into the crucible until they've burned out.

The Smith is inspired by John Henry Irons, better known as Steel, from the DC Universe, Division 0's Ouetsu Nimaiya from Bleach, and real world figure Sengo Muramasa.