Indigo's Father

Hikaru Montoya was one of the few remaining Shimmersmiths in the verse. Shimmersmiting is a lost art that used to provide the prized and deadly weapons of the most skilled of the monarchy's guard. The best way that shimmersteel can be explained, in terms that we would understand, is a rare alloy forged in the magnetic wells of a few rare planets. This forms a blade that could best be explained as something like a vibro-blade on a molecular level. Think "naturally occurring nanites." In the ancient art, the smiths believed the alloy to be near-sentient, and the greatest swordmasters formed a metaphysical bond with their blade. They described their art of combat as co-creation with the steel itself...