Nial's Improvement
The news about the appearance of Magnatit Crystals didn't leak outside. Timothée and his group were quiet, and Nial was focused on the creation process of runic armaments.
To create ungraded or Tier-0 runic armaments, one could use weapon and armor casts before inscribing them. The purity of ores used in this process was low in most cases because the ore was merely reduced with the use of coal to receive the metal.
The pre-forged metal would be heated to a near-molten state and then poured inside the weapon cast.
This was pretty easy and it allowed the Runicier to have close to no knowledge about actual forging, which saved him or her a lot of time.
It was only important to know how to initiate the reduction process, the heating process, to know how to inscribe the runic constellations and how to properly sharpen the casted weapons.