About My I-Make

One of the next projects that is assigned for the class is the I-Make. The first part of the project is to form a proposal that would allow you to pursue what you wish to make. For my I-Make proposal, I may not have been very persuasive, but that is because I was not very prepared. What I had in mind for the project was to smith, but I am not entirely sure that that is what I want to do for the project. How I went about proposing my idea was just to follow the four guidelines that I was given in the syllabus about the project. Though for at least the first guideline, define it, I was not entirely sure what to do, so that part was not very well done.
Anyways, the reason that I chose to smith was actually for quite an... interesting reason. I used to play the very popular video game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This game is a single-player RPG (Role-Playing Game) that I spent much time playing because of how much I enjoyed it. What tends to happen in these games is you get to assume an alter-ego, a different personality if you will, and I loved being able to get away into a life that was not my own boring one. In the game, I was actually part of an ancient thieves order, but in the order, I could not reveal my true identity to others, or so I pretended. I don't know why I'm writing this. So unless I was on a mission, my alter-ego assumed its own alter-ego as a local blacksmith. It actually helps to learn smithing in the game in order to gain stronger armour and weapons, but I actually made it so my houses had smithing machines on-hand. As I was gaining the skill, I actually really liked what I was seeing in regards to the animations, and also what many of the smithing characters had to say about the subject. All of the characters that were blacksmiths were actually quite bad*ss, including my own character, and it instilled in me at least the tiniest urge to try it one day. So, when ideas for the I-Make project needed to come along, I thought it a good push to finally do so, and try smithing.

Here's a screenshot in the game that I found that actually has a member of my thieves order smithing:

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