Actually smithed items can also be spellbooks. Enchanting level is brought up by working as an apprentace for a job, but at 7 per week its waaay too slow. Any other ways to get enchanting up faster?
For the level with just a huge gap, I just had people continuosly jump off the edge repeatedly hitting spacebar so that after a while they were all jumping off of each other in midair. Eventually one of them made it all the way over :P
YOU CAN SAVE ON HARDCORE. As long as you complete the wave your in and dont quit mid battle, it saves when you get back to town just like normal. The save file gets deleted AT THE START OF THE BATTLE.