When Ralph managed to walk in to the forge, he and Grace spotted an absolute mess. It wasn't just that the forge looked like someone had been parading around and causing chaos. It was that it appeared someone had been using every forge in quick succession as they moved through their forging process.
Naturally, everyone walking in stopped. They had never seen the forge in such a state. But what they all soon realized was that there was someone in the very back hammering away at a large set of armor. Something that should have taken weeks to make but had definitely been made in a day. The next shocking point was that there were no molds used.