Topics: fantasy worldbuilding, characters, factions, relics, creatures, locations, canon.

Tags: character, runecraft, public-guide.

Public role: Borin makes dwarven craft law concrete. He is not only a smith or scholar; he is the person who can prove whether a bridge, gate, oath, or seal failed honestly.

Appearance: ink-dark beard rings, measuring chains, soot at the cuffs, polished court boots over forge scars, and hands that test hinges before greetings.

Personality: meticulous, loyal to craft truth, dryly funny under pressure, and slow to forgive anyone who treats maintenance as lesser work.

Voice: legal craft language with blunt jokes. He asks who maintained a thing before asking who owns it.