Nexians in Hessia have discovered massive fissures in the ground with molten lava still flowing through. The fissures are located mostly along the Old Nexia-Hessia border, and Nexians have found that the magma can be utilized as a massive furnace, hotter than Nexians have ever built, and hot even even to ideally temper steel. Nexian mines are still ravaged and unusable after the eruption and subsequent earthquakes, but Nexia is offering to buy iron in exchange for twice the value of good quality steel, if made by other methods. (Approx 1000 pounds of iron for 300 pounds of tempered steel)
Nexians have increased the garrison in Hessia to enforce ownership.