Daughter of a pair of Merchant Caste blacksmiths from the Mitsaguri House of Stone Elves, Hiroko took up the family trade and apprenticed with the Blacksmith Manitashi Kitako in the city of Kordinor after her parents left their Great House to move to the Federal Republic. Considering her work to be a form of art, Hiroko is a tribute to her sensei and her family. They're a little more conservative than she, however, and don't particularly approve of her fraternizing with less reputable sorts...