Forging

Item from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb

The Red Ships' most terrible weapon — a process that strips away empathy, compassion, and every human connection, leaving a shell that remembers how to eat and steal but has forgotten how to care.

Also known as: Forging, Being Forged, Red Ship Forging

What They Know

• Strips away empathy, social bonds, and all emotional connection — leaving only base survival instincts
• Performed aboard the Red Ships using a process connected to the Pale Woman's corruption of prophetic magic
• Forged people cannot be 'cured' by conventional means — Fitz eventually discovers that the Skill can potentially restore them
• Wit-users sense Forged people as empty spaces — alive but without the spark that connects living things
• The term 'Forging' comes from the town of Forge, where the first victims were created

Connections

• created_by — pale-woman
• used_by — outislands
• attacks — six-duchies
• named_for — forge

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