Foundryside

In the bustling, magic-infused city of Tevanne, where industrial-scale scriving—the art of imbuing objects with sentience through coded commands—dictates power and commerce, Sancia Grado is a thief of unparalleled skill. Her latest target, a seemingly ordinary warehouse, holds an artifact far beyond her wildest imagination: an object capable of revolutionizing scriving and, by extension, reality itself. Unbeknownst to Sancia, she has stumbled into the heart of a secret war among the powerful Merchant Houses, who have transformed Tevanne into a ruthless capitalist machine. This artifact holds the key to unlocking even greater control, threatening to rewrite the very fabric of the world to suit their avaricious desires. Now, with a target on her back and powerful forces seeking the artifact, Sancia must forge unlikely alliances, master the artifact's extraordinary power, and undergo a profound transformation to survive and prevent the world from being irrevocably altered.