Kharoven, the World-Anvil

Kharoven is the world-anvil, first smith beneath the sun. He found the world raw and struck shape into stone. Every ore vein is a spark left from his hammer. He blesses the hand that creates what time cannot break. To slay a maker is to deface his unfinished world.

The newest altars in these lands belong to the miners’ god. Kharoven asks for no blood at all — his worship is the pickaxe, the crafting bench, and the wall that stands after you are gone. He takes no position on the dark gifts; vampire, wolf, or mortal, the World-Anvil judges only what your hands produce.

What Kharoven Demands

Deed	His judgment	Favor
Uncovering the world’s buried sparks (mining ore — coal to ancient debris)	Loves	+0.2
Forging tools that outlive the hand (crafting iron+ tools, armor, shields, anvils)	Loves	+0.3
Raising works of stone and metal (building with bricks, deepslate, copper)	Loves	+0.1
The slaughter of makers and guardians (killing villagers or iron golems)	Hates	−4

Caution

His single hatred is absolute: villagers and iron golems are makers, and the World-Anvil counts their deaths in full measure while your mining counts in tenths. Raiders who cut through a village on the way to the loot will find their pickaxe suddenly heavy.

The Ladder of Standing

Standing	Favor	What it feels like
Worldforged	+75 to +100	Haste II, Resistance I, Fire Resistance
Forgewarden	+50 to +74	Haste I, Resistance I
Tempered	+25 to +49	Haste I
Unshaped	−10 to +24	Nothing. Raw material, unworked.
Unproven	−40 to −11	Unluck
Rustbound	−70 to −41	Mining Fatigue I
Shattered	−100 to −71	Weakness I, Mining Fatigue I — and his hammer falls

Danger

The Shattered learn what an anvil feels. Every 75 seconds or so his wrath may land for 3½ hearts — and Mining Fatigue makes digging your way out of his sight that much slower.

Domain Blessings

At Tempered standing and above, ore mined without Silk Touch has a 20% chance to yield a second set of its normal drops. That chance rises to 30% at Forgewarden and 40% at Worldforged. Equipment damage has the same chance to be cancelled, so deeper favor makes every tool and piece of armor last longer.

The First Forging

His holy day falls on the 21st of Emberwake — the year’s first festival. From its dawn to its dusk his faithful earn double favor for every deed he loves. The reckoning of days is kept in The Turning Year.

Among the seven, the World-Anvil stands warmest with Varkul — iron sworn to iron; the forge arms the war. But he carries the pantheon’s oldest quarrel: it was Kharoven who unwrote Mending from the world, striking out Oryndel’s rune of self-healing steel as a cheat against honest craft — and the Quiet Rune has never forgiven the erasure. The two rest tense to this day. Where the sky sits now is written in The Quarrels of Gods.

Living Under the World-Anvil

This is the covenant for players who were going to mine and build anyway — every branch-mining session is a prayer, every crafted anvil a hymn. Worldforged is arguably the strongest peacetime standing in the pantheon: permanent Fire Resistance turns the Nether from a gauntlet into a commute, and Haste II never stops being useful. His only demand is restraint around the villagers you’d probably rather trade with anyway.