A particular set of skills

Deimos was glad that Artorias was immediately interested in his request and he nodded with agreement as the Hallows alpha invited him in and mentioned that they could talk in the forge. He followed Art's lead into the castle and stepped into the forge, his gaze roaming curiously over the set up that the Lord of Cinder had set up here. The closest he had ever been to some kind of work space like this was the couple of times he had followed Avacyn into her workshop while they were discussing current events, but even that space was a far cry from this. There were various weapons and the like in different stages of completion all around–certainly more than he had ever seen in one place before. No wonder so many of the Hallows wolves were armed with them.

Following Art over to a work surface, he watched as Art pulled out a piece of parchment and began to sketch out the beginnings of an idea. He listened as he was told the three main components of making a weapon: the shape, the steel, and the finish. Looking around at all of the various swords and daggers that lined the walls he quickly realized there was far more options and variations than he had realized so even boiling it down to three main components there was still seemingly a wide array of things that could be made. When Art questioned him about what kind of blade he envisioned for Darika, he hummed with thought and replied, "I did want it to be something she can easily keep with her all of the time since I imagine she'll be traveling often as she gets into diplomatic meetings and the like so I imagine that probably leads us to some kind of dagger. She's very interested in the look and feel of her mother's culture. I'm not sure how familiar you are with Ikigai's family–particularly her father's side–but she loves the clothing and aesthetic of the things she's inherited from her mother. If there's something that we can incorporate from them I'm sure she'd love it." 

"Deimos Mendacium"