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Location Tier Premier Martial Armory, Blade Refitting & Exotic Weaponry Depot Location Northern arc of Delver’s Square, Midtown, Ptolus (Directly facing the Bull and Bear) Proprietor Cornellius Rastor (Veteran Imperial Siege Infantryman, Blade-Master & Pragmatist) Trade Alliance The Iron Alliance (Exclusive mutual-referral and salvage-liquidation pact with the Bull and Bear) Specialties Cold-Iron Blades, Dawnsilver Rapiers, Heavy Polearms, Exotic Dungeoneering Weapons, Blade Balancing, Weapon Rune Etching Motto ”A cheap blade breaks once; you die once. Buy steel that bites back.”
⚔️ Overview: The Cold Steel of the Square
Rastor’s Weapons is the premier emporium in Delver’s Square for martial armaments, specialized dungeon weaponry, and edged combat refitting. Housed in a squat, heavy limestone building with iron-shuttered display windows and heavy timber beams reinforced with steel strapping, the shop exudes an atmosphere of lethal, no-nonsense utility.
Unlike the high-end boutique swordsmiths of the Nobles’ Quarter who craft ceremonial rapiers for dueling scions, or the mass-production foundries of the Guildsman District, proprietor Cornellius “Rastor” Rastor caters exclusively to delvers who stake their lives on their blades. Every weapon on Rastor’s heavy iron display racks is balanced for lethal practical work—honed to a razor edge, treated against rust from subterranean humidity, and inspected for microscopic stress fractures.
The interior smells of sweet gunsmithing oil, leather dressing, whetstones, and cold metal. Long racks of gleaming bastard swords, halberds, Bec de Corbin warhammers, dwarven waraxes, and composite longbows line the stone walls. At the center of the showroom sits a massive oak chopping block scarred by thousands of test-strikes, where delvers can test a weapon’s balance and weight before laying down their gold.
🤝 The Iron Alliance Partnership
Rastor operates in a permanent commercial lockstep with The Bull and Bear across the square:
- The Mutual Referral: Because Rastor lacks the heavy furnace infrastructure required for large-scale plate casting and cuirass tailoring, he strictly refrains from selling armor. When delvers enter seeking mail or plate, he hands them a stamped iron token granting a 5% discount on custom armor refitting at the Bull and Bear. In turn, the Feek brothers direct every customer seeking edged steel or ranged weaponry straight to Rastor.
- The Salvage Pipeline: When an adventuring company emerges through the Delver’s Stair with a wagonload of subterranean salvage, Rastor and the Feek brothers pool their coin. Rastor buys the blades, bows, and polearms at 50% of book value, while the Feek brothers purchase the dented shields and armor.
- Integrated Weapon-Armor Tuning: When a warrior purchases a full plate harness from the Feek brothers, Rastor personally crosses the square to measure the buyer’s weapon balance, grip style, and center of gravity, ensuring the suit’s pauldrons and gauntlets are articulated specifically around the warrior’s favored weapon grip.
🛒 Pathfinder 2e Remaster Inventory & Martial Services
Rastor stocks all standard martial and advanced weapons from the Player Core up to Item Level 8, alongside specialized weapon services:
Specialized Stock & Materials
- Cold Iron Armaments: Rastor keeps a steady stock of cold-iron longswords, greatswords, daggers, and arrowheads (standard PF2e precious material pricing), essential for overcoming the resistances of demons, fae, and ancient chaotic entities unearthed from the Banewarrens.
- Silver Weapons: Alchemically treated silver blades and mace heads for hunting shapeshifters, lycanthropes, and undead stalkers rising from the Necropolis.
- Custom Blade Balancing (10 gp + base weapon cost): Rastor meticulously hones and weights the pommel of a martial melee weapon. Reduces the penalty on the first attack made after drawing or swapping the weapon during combat.
- Serration & Armor-Piercing Tips (5 gp): Hardened piercing tips that grant a +1 circumstance bonus to damage rolls against targets wearing heavy armor or chitinous carapaces.
Magical Runework Intermediary
While Rastor is a fighter rather than a runecaster, he maintains a working relationship with rune-scripters affiliated with the Inverted Pyramid and independent enchanters. Customers can leave weapons with Rastor for +1 Weapon Potency (35 gp) and Striking (65 gp) rune transfers, which are delivered within 48 hours under Rastor’s personal guarantee of security.
🎭 Roleplaying Cornellius Rastor
- Gruff, Measured Cynicism: Rastor speaks in a low, gravelly baritone. He does not flatter customers or tolerate boastful bravado. If a novice fighter tries to show off with an oversized zweihander they can barely lift, Rastor will calmly tell them to pick up a shortsword before they sever their own hamstring.
- The Clanking Step: Having lost his left leg beneath the knee in imperial military service, Rastor navigates the shop with a distinct clank-thud from his custom iron-and-darkwood prosthetic. He uses it as a reminder of the price of carelessness.
- Honor Among Veterans: Rastor has immense respect for survivors of severe underground engagements. Adventurers who bring back broken weapons from deep dungeon horrors receive honest sympathy, a mug of fiery dwarven spirits, and prioritized forge repair work.
🧭 Story Hooks for Adventurers
- The Fractured Blade: A young delver sells Rastor a serrated falchion scavenged from a vault beneath the Banewarrens. While cleaning the blade, Rastor discovers a hollow compartment inside the hilt containing an encrypted wax seal bearing the sigil of the Cult of the Ebon Hand. Rastor quietly summons the party to investigate the delver’s origin before the Synod catches wind of it.
- The Dawnsilver Shortage: Caravans bringing refined dawnsilver from the northern baronies have been ambushed along the coast road by brigands armed with high-precision technomantic rifles. Rastor suspects agents of the Killraven Crime League or the Shuul are cornering the market, and he hires the party to recover his stolen supply crates.
- The Haunted Greatsword: An adventurer dies in the tavern next door, leaving behind an exquisite +1 Striking Bastard Sword etched with weeping eyes. When Rastor takes it in on consignment, the weapon begins whispering during the night, causing nearby blades to rattle on their racks. Rastor seeks the party’s aid to determine if the sword is tied to the Tolling Bell death-cult.