Mohammed the musket-forger had always been more creative than his piers. His firearms were always beautifully adorned, and were often wielded by generals and field commanders as a status symbol. Of course, Mohammeds guns were as functional as they were aesthetically pleasing. They were far more reliable than the shoddily made misfiring deathtraps that the lazy metal smiths in Bursa and Adrianople produced. It was not, however, in his precision and dedication to the production of individual weapons that Mohammed left a lasting legacy.
One day, while experimenting with different decorative groove patterns on a muskets outer metal casing, he decided to try something new altogether. On a whim, he added grooves to the inside of the barrel to match those that adorned the outside. As usual, Mohammed sent the rifle to the training grounds in Ankara. Upon hearing that his grooved rifle had performed exceptionally well in initial field tests, Mohammed set out to perfect the art of grooving rifles. Within weeks, the whole of his piers at the smithery were producing the new rifled muskets, or Rifles for short.