Some people are chosen to be forged by Fire...
You take the hardest of metals, usually iron, subject it to intense heat, then hammer it and beat it into shape. This is one level of understanding. The crude one.
The blacksmith or 'forgeron' in French is used as an allegorical character for the Transformer, who takes your crude self and shapes it into something beautiful...that almost always necessitates an intense Fire.
Akin to the blacksmith, there is the alchemist, who also transmutes low grade minerals into Gold, again through a process of distillation by Fire...
The Blacksmith and the Alchemist are one and the same...and the end result is always beyond the wildest of your imagination.
