The Soulsmith’s Workshop is a guided journey into the glowing core of character creation. It teaches you how to shape characters with emotional depth, narrative purpose, and inner coherence — whether they’re heroes, villains, mentors, side characters, or part of a wider ensemble. Each lesson leads you through reflective, immersive exercises that draw out the hidden workings of a character’s psyche, revealing the truths that quietly steer their lives. You’ll learn how to turn those discoveries into clear, actionable story elements that strengthen motivation, behaviour, and the threads that bind your cast together.
Moving chamber by chamber, you’ll build each character from the inside out, forging personalities that feel alive on the page and woven organically into the world around them. The workshop is designed to be intuitive, transformative, and immediately useful at any stage of your writing.
The Soulsmith’s Workshop is designed for storytellers who want their characters to breathe, ache, choose, break, change, and live on the page. Whether you craft sprawling novels, tight screenplays, immersive RPG campaigns, transformative fanfiction, or stories that defy genre altogether, this workshop gives you a deeper way to understand the souls at the heart of your work.
It’s for writers who sense there’s something truer beneath a character’s surface — and want the tools to uncover it. For creators who love worldbuilding, but want their cast to feel just as rich. For anyone who has ever stared at a blank page knowing their character exists, but not yet knowing how to bring them fully into being.
If you want to forge characters with clarity, depth, emotional reality, and a kind of quiet magic, this workshop was built for you.
The Soulsmith’s Workshop
Early Access Price: €95
(Full course price: €200)
Early Access Benefits
Founder’s Price
Join at a significantly reduced rate and lock in access to the full €200 course for just €95 — no upgrades, no surprises.
Learn as the Forge Heats
Start shaping your characters right away with all completed lessons, templates, and exercises available from day one.
Priority Support
Early Access students go to the front of the queue for Q&A submissions, clarifications, and personalised guidance.
Influence the Final Craft
Your feedback helps fine-tune examples, exercises, and lesson pacing — you become part of how the finished course takes shape.
Lifetime Access to the Full Course
No subscription model, no expiry. When the Soulsmith’s Workshop is complete, your access simply expands to include everything.
Members-Only Discounts on Future Courses
Early Access students receive special pricing on upcoming workshops — including Worldforge and Chronoscribe — as a thank-you for stepping into the forge first.
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Full Curriculum Overview
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Entering the Forge
Step into the Soulsmith’s workshop and learn the shape of the forge itself — its philosophy, its tools, and the character you’ll commit to crafting. This chamber shows you how to wield the Character Dossier and reveals what transforms an idea into a living presence on the page. -
The Essence Chamber
Descend to the quiet core of your character’s being. Here you uncover the inner law that governs them, the purpose that draws them into the story, and the paradox that gives them depth. By the end, their essence glows clean and coherent — the ember from which everything else will rise.
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The Inner Furnace
Enter the fire where emotion and psychology collide. You’ll map wounds, name desires, expose fears, and trace the worldview that shapes their choices. When these forces are finally bound together, the furnace reveals the engine that drives your character’s every action.
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The First Fire
Travel back to the beginning — the soil, the voices, the warnings, and the early sparks that forged your character’s foundation. This module uncovers the memory that still echoes through their present and binds all origin threads into a single, coherent past.
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The Hammer of History
Witness the blows that shaped your character in adolescence and adulthood. Here you explore defining events, pivotal relationships, unresolved regrets, and strengths born from struggle. Once integrated, these moments reveal the emotional timeline your character carries into the story.
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Entering the Forge
Step into the Soulsmith’s workshop and learn the shape of the forge itself — its philosophy, its tools, and the character you’ll commit to crafting. This chamber shows you how to wield the Character Dossier and reveals what transforms an idea into a living presence on the page. -
The Essence Chamber
Descend to the quiet core of your character’s being. Here you uncover the inner law that governs them, the purpose that draws them into the story, and the paradox that gives them depth. By the end, their essence glows clean and coherent — the ember from which everything else will rise.
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The Inner Furnace
Enter the fire where emotion and psychology collide. You’ll map wounds, name desires, expose fears, and trace the worldview that shapes their choices. When these forces are finally bound together, the furnace reveals the engine that drives your character’s every action.
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The First Fire
Travel back to the beginning — the soil, the voices, the warnings, and the early sparks that forged your character’s foundation. This module uncovers the memory that still echoes through their present and binds all origin threads into a single, coherent past.
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The Hammer of History
Witness the blows that shaped your character in adolescence and adulthood. Here you explore defining events, pivotal relationships, unresolved regrets, and strengths born from struggle. Once integrated, these moments reveal the emotional timeline your character carries into the story.
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The Binding Ties
No character walks alone. This chamber maps the allies who lift them, the forces that oppose them, the duties they owe, and the power they hold — or lack. By the end, you’ll see the web of relationships that tugs at their path from every direction. -
The Mortal Form
Give your character their physical vessel. Explore presence, gesture, strength, frailty, talent, and the objects they choose to carry. This module fuses body and psyche, ensuring the form they inhabit aligns with the soul you’ve shaped.
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The Living Environment
Place your character in the world they move through — their home, habits, work, culture, and daily rhythm. As these elements settle into place, their life takes on structure, texture, and emotional meaning, forming a world that feels lived-in and true.
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The Stress Crucible
Discover who your character becomes when the heat rises. Study their reactions under pressure — the behaviours, shields, triggers, and breaking points that reveal their deepest patterns. Through these elements, the crucible forges a coherent portrait of their limits and resilience.
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The Hidden Veins
Slip beneath the surface to uncover what your character keeps buried — secrets, blind spots, vulnerabilities, and truths they refuse to face. Woven together, these veins create the subterranean map of their inner landscape.
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The Clash Within & Without
Chart the conflicts that define your character — the war inside them, the forces arrayed against them, and the relationships that spark friction. By understanding what’s at stake, you reveal the pressure that shapes their decisions and destiny. -
The Arc of Tempering
Trace your character’s transformation across the story’s heat. Who they are at the beginning, who they must become, the moment everything pivots — and what happens if they shatter instead of grow. This chamber forges these stages into a unified arc.
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The Mythic Imprint
Examine the symbolic layer of your character: their archetypal echoes, their motifs, their elemental affinities. When fused, these threads form a mythic signature — the deeper resonance that gives your character thematic weight.
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The Voice Unmasked
Hear your character speak for the first time. Explore their inner monologue, their spoken cadence, and the subtle difference between the two. This module clarifies the unique voice that will carry them through your story.
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The Soul-Sigil Summary
Distil everything you’ve forged into one potent page — the essence of your character made clear. Then, if you choose, craft a sigil to represent their inner truth before unifying every psychological, physical, mythic, and relational element into a complete, luminous whole.
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The Binding Ties
No character walks alone. This chamber maps the allies who lift them, the forces that oppose them, the duties they owe, and the power they hold — or lack. By the end, you’ll see the web of relationships that tugs at their path from every direction. -
The Mortal Form
Give your character their physical vessel. Explore presence, gesture, strength, frailty, talent, and the objects they choose to carry. This module fuses body and psyche, ensuring the form they inhabit aligns with the soul you’ve shaped.
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The Living Environment
Place your character in the world they move through — their home, habits, work, culture, and daily rhythm. As these elements settle into place, their life takes on structure, texture, and emotional meaning, forming a world that feels lived-in and true.
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The Stress Crucible
Discover who your character becomes when the heat rises. Study their reactions under pressure — the behaviours, shields, triggers, and breaking points that reveal their deepest patterns. Through these elements, the crucible forges a coherent portrait of their limits and resilience.
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The Hidden Veins
Slip beneath the surface to uncover what your character keeps buried — secrets, blind spots, vulnerabilities, and truths they refuse to face. Woven together, these veins create the subterranean map of their inner landscape.
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The Clash Within & Without
Chart the conflicts that define your character — the war inside them, the forces arrayed against them, and the relationships that spark friction. By understanding what’s at stake, you reveal the pressure that shapes their decisions and destiny. -
The Arc of Tempering
Trace your character’s transformation across the story’s heat. Who they are at the beginning, who they must become, the moment everything pivots — and what happens if they shatter instead of grow. This chamber forges these stages into a unified arc.
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The Mythic Imprint
Examine the symbolic layer of your character: their archetypal echoes, their motifs, their elemental affinities. When fused, these threads form a mythic signature — the deeper resonance that gives your character thematic weight.
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The Voice Unmasked
Hear your character speak for the first time. Explore their inner monologue, their spoken cadence, and the subtle difference between the two. This module clarifies the unique voice that will carry them through your story.
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The Soul-Sigil Summary
Distil everything you’ve forged into one potent page — the essence of your character made clear. Then, if you choose, craft a sigil to represent their inner truth before unifying every psychological, physical, mythic, and relational element into a complete, luminous whole.
The Character Dossier
This 29-page Character Dossier is the core of the Soulsmith’s Workshop — a structured, evolving document that captures every layer of your character as it emerges from the forge. With each chamber you complete, the Dossier gathers their wounds, desires, history, relationships, and mythic identity into a single, coherent whole. Available in both light and dark editions, and offered in UK and US English, the Dossier can be downloaded as many times as you need. By the end of the workshop, it becomes a living portrait: a complete and finely forged record of who your character truly is.
Join once.
Keep access forever.
No subscriptions,
no hidden tiers
Join once. Keep access forever. No subscriptions, no hidden tiers
Begin Your Apprenticeship in the Forge — Early Access €95
Step into the workshop now and secure lifetime access at the founder’s price.
The cost will rise as new modules unlock and the forge continues to grow.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Your access is lifelong. Once you enter the forge, the doors never close. Every module, update, and tool added in the future becomes yours to keep.
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No. Early Access students lock in their rate permanently. Even as new chambers open and the course grows toward its full value, your price never changes.
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You’ll enter at the current Early Access price, which increases gradually as the workshop expands. The earlier you join, the more you save.
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Yes. As soon as a new module or exercise is released, it will appear in your course dashboard without you needing to do anything.
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Absolutely. The forge is designed for writers of all experience levels — from first-time storytellers to seasoned creators looking for deeper psychological tools.