When the tigers used to smoke, there was a small tribe deep in the forests of what is now the United Kingdom. They were extremely remote and had no neighbors except for some fairies. They lived peacefully alongside them for decades, until one day some malicious fairies realized they had become a lot stronger than the humans, and began kidnapping them as well as inflicting other cruelties on the human tribe. They called upon the god of the moon, and he sang a song that caused a flaming meteor of iron to fall from the sky and in the forest near the tribe. They found the meteor and turned it into iron.
They used the iron to make armor, and this protected them from evil fairies although it was not enough. The God of Fear And Hunger noticed what was going on, and told them the secret of iron. Iron was able to kill the fairies, and when told this they made metal rods they used to beat down the evil fairies that came to kidnap them or kill them. They bashed the heads of countless evil fairies. Most were out of defense, but some were in anger which caused the fairies to move to another dimension away from humanity.