💬 STEELY PATE QUOTES 💬

"Good steel bites through poor steel, and good steel on your hip counts for more than gold in your purse."

- The wisdom of a man who knows what really matters

"The smallfolk have their own heroes."

- And Steely Pate is chief among them

"A hedge knight must make do with what he has."

- And what hedge knights have is Steely Pate to fix their gear

"Bring me your dented, your rusted, your poorly maintained armor yearning to see battle again!"

- Steely Pate (probably), channeling the Statue of Liberty before it existed

"You call that a helm? My grandmother could forge better, and she's been dead for twenty years!"

- Steely Pate (headcanon) critiquing inferior metalwork

"Seven hells, what did you DO to this breastplate? Did you fight a dragon or roll down a mountain??"

- Steely Pate (probably) upon seeing Dunk's armor for the first time

"I don't need a castle. My forge is my castle, my hammer is my sword, and every road is my kingdom."

- Steely Pate (imagined), waxing philosophical on the road

"They call me 'Steely' on account of I work steel, you see. Real creative, hedge knights are."

- Steely Pate (headcanon), explaining the origin of his name

"A good smith doesn't just fix armor. He fixes the man inside it. Confidence, that's what good armor gives you."

- Steely Pate (imagined), being surprisingly philosophical at the forge