# Smytan · The Wandering Blacksmith

> Smytan is a dark-fantasy worldbuilding universe by The Wandering Blacksmith: a realm of forges, faeries, and fossils explored through an interactive world map at smytan.com, a growing body of lore ("the Chronicles"), and a small catalogue of digital and physical keepsakes. This file points AI agents and LLM crawlers at the canonical text, the structured world data, and the product feed. Copy is bilingual (English and Spanish).

## Start here
- [The World of Smytan (readable lore)](https://smytan.com/world.html): every place, creature, and person of Smytan as plain HTML text. The best page to read and quote the world from.
- [The interactive map](https://smytan.com/): strike the anvil, sit the Apprentice Trial, choose a path, and walk the world (JavaScript app).
- [World data (JSON)](https://smytan.com/content/world.json): the single structured source for every place, creature, and character, with their lore in English and Spanish.
- [Product catalogue (JSON)](https://smytan.com/products.json): machine-readable feed of everything for sale, with prices and checkout links (Schema.org ItemList).

## Lore and Chronicles
The canonical lore lives as short chronicles. Each map location links to one.
- [Why fairies fear iron](https://thewanderingblacksmith.substack.com/p/why-fairies-fear-iron): the Faerie Wars and the Forest Edge.
- [The Goblins](https://thewanderingblacksmith.substack.com/p/the-goblins): greed made flesh; goblins who grow gold coins into their own skin.
- [The Beacon Tree](https://thewanderingblacksmith.substack.com/p/the-beacon-tree): a forge inside a living thing, neutral ground for humans, druids, and faeries.
- [The Wanderer's Amulet](https://thewanderingblacksmith.substack.com/p/the-wanderers-amulet): the iron hammer every wandering smith carries.
- [The Farrier](https://thewanderingblacksmith.substack.com/p/the-farrier): Knielhof, the smith who works on the living.
- [Master Berton](https://thewanderingblacksmith.substack.com/p/master-berton): master of the Order of Smiths and keeper of the Apprentice Trial.
- [The night the anvil broke](https://thewanderingblacksmith.substack.com/p/the-night-the-anvil-broke): the battle that turned at Anvil Square.
- [The alphabet enters with blood](https://thewanderingblacksmith.substack.com/p/the-alphabet-enters-with-blood): the Warden and the law of the Wanderer's Book.
- [All Chronicles](https://thewanderingblacksmith.substack.com): the full archive on Substack.

## Products
- [The Wanderer's Book (Bound Edition)](https://rodrickgoldstein.gumroad.com/l/geaku?wanted=true): a printable keepsake edition of a reader's completed journey through Smytan, laid out cover to colophon with their own record and notes. Digital PDF. Pay what you want, 7 USD suggested. Checkout via Gumroad.
- [The Blacksmith's Oath (PDF)](https://rodrickgoldstein.gumroad.com/l/fjctib): the smith's oath as a free, print-ready PDF.

## Planned, not yet live
- Smytan TCG, a trading card game. The card feed will publish at https://smytan.com/cards.json (template in place today).
- Collectible maps: physical printed maps of Smytan. They will appear in products.json when available.

## Optional
- [Instagram (@smytan_world)](https://www.instagram.com/smytan_world/): the Bestiary and the Known World of Smytan in pictures.
- [Sitemap](https://smytan.com/sitemap.xml)
- [TCG card feed (template)](https://smytan.com/cards.json): structure only; the game is not live yet.