sing, o muse

"I make things," he answers. "If people want something made--and I do still have some of the sort of customers I used to have ages ago, when I was more famous; there aren't as many, but the ones who are left are more demanding and less polite--I will make it for them. But I don't have to make it easy, and I don't have to make it cheap--if I don't like them, or don't like what they're trying to have made, I charge them more. Not money, but materials. I rarely gather materials for magic items myself; it's my way of testing."