Thirty Day Character Challenge: Feanor by eris_of_imladris

Prompt 25

Prompt 25: An Atlas of Everyday Life. Draw a map of a location familiar to your character. The location may be as small as a room or as vast as a realm. Include details important to your character's life or connection to this location.

For the map, I drew Mahtan’s forge, where Fëanor would have spent a great deal of time learning about different types of smithing. Some highlights include:

• The first aid table outside, which features in a few of my short stories. Mahtan seems gruff and uncaring at first, but he will not allow anyone to work injured, nor will he tolerate anyone making fun of anyone else for injuring themself on the job. The table is stocked with bandages, cold water, salves, and a variety of healing herbs.
• Fëanor’s station was fourth from the right as you walk into the forge, when he was an apprentice. The apprentices’ stations circled the perimeter, and each was responsible for managing their own work area and forge. Mahtan took both male and female apprentices. The senior apprentices, of which there could never be more than four at a time, worked around a central forge in the center of the room. There were often only one or two of these, and never more than three. Mahtan tended to work at one when he had his own work to do.
• Mahtan had his own workstation in the back for when he had a more complex project or wanted to leave the others alone for a bit (he believed that only by running a forge was someone able to understand how one was run, and so he sometimes left the forge to his senior apprentices).
• There is a room in the front that serves as Nerdanel’s studio, and some of her sculptures as well as those from other artists are arrayed in the front lawn, near the path to the forge.
• The forge is in the back of the house.

Link to drawing: https://imgur.com/MhgCCXA