As Christine's Bowmaking Department expanded, operating in Quel'Danil City became increasingly inconvenient. Yu Lin Bloodhawk's assembly-line production methods had given Christine a great deal of inspiration, so the two had discussed the subject at length.
Christine had also visited the semiautomated War God Armor manufacturing base on the Seaside Plain, and he was considering moving the Bowmaking Department's headquarters there.
As the Bowmaking Department grew, preparing the oils and other materials needed for bowmaking, some of which involved Family secrets, was clearly becoming more than Christine and his few trusted employees could handle.
That was why Christine wanted to move to the Seaside Plain. He also wanted to ask the Goblins to help build a water-powered headquarters. Then, as long as he kept control of the formulas, he could run operations smoothly with just a handful of trusted employees.
In fact, Christine was not the only one with that idea. Quite a few people in Tinker Town were also planning to build semiautomated production workshops near the War God Armor Production Base on the Seaside Plain.
As far as armor production in Tinker Town went, aside from the standard-issue Quel'Thalas armor being made to fill orders, only a contingent of Wildhammer Dwarves was still specifically making Plate Armor exclusively for the Wildhammer Dwarves of Aerie Peak.
Almost all the remaining blacksmiths were devoted to making weapons, with only a small number still making armor components that required hand forging.
In fact, as the development team at the War God Armor Production Base continued to develop new molds and stamping equipment, fewer and fewer armor components needed to be forged entirely by hand. The Wildhammer Dwarf blacksmiths in Tinker Town often joked that the Goblins were stealing their livelihoods.
Despite those jokes, quite a few Wildhammer Dwarves hoped the War God