Founders #01: Foundryside

- Blurb -

She thought it was just another job. But her discovery could bring the city to its knees . . .The city of Tevanne runs on scrivings, the magical inscriptions that make inanimate objects sentient; they power everything, from wheels to weapons. Scrivings have brought enormous progress and enormous wealth - but only to the four merchant Houses who control the magic. Everyone else is a servant or slave, or they eke a precarious living in the hellhole called the Commons.There's not much in the way of work for an escaped slave like Sancia Grado, but she has an unnatural talent that makes her one of the best thieves in the city. When she's offered a lucrative job to steal an ancient artefact from a heavily guarded warehouse, Sancia agrees, dreaming of a leaving the Commons - but instead of escape, she finds herself the target of a murderous conspiracy: someone powerful in Tevanne wants Sancia dead, and the artefact in their hands. To survive, Sancia will need every ally and every ounce of wits at her disposal. Because if the Houses get the artefact and unlock its secrets, thousands will die - and even worse, it will allow ancient evils back into the world and turn their city into a devastated battleground.