Pode ser o Inverno do Mundo série de Mike Scott Rohan (sem relação). O herói certamente se torna um mestre ferreiro e deixa a terra de seu nascimento.
Chiefest among the Chronicles is the tale of Elof, who rose from a nameless foundling and serf to become a magesmith of ever-increasing art and power; and of the great skill, great knowledge, great love and great folly of which his life was shaped, and the awesome deeds he accomplished. How at first he fell into evil, was cleansed and, with the aid of his fast friends and the strange figures who haunted him, undid his ill-doing; how with those friends he sought a new home for his people across the breadth of a continent, and found that in his quest he was also pursuing the girl he had long loved, bond-servant of the Powers of Ice; and how he lost her once more, and went seeking her across the wide oceans of the world to the ancient home of civilization, and there found the destiny of the world in the balance; of these the first three books tell. And of how he won at last the name of Elof Valantor, Elof of the Skilled Hand, mightiest of all magesmiths amid the dark days of the Winter of the World.