The Forge: The Great Plan – A Novella by David Cornford

Blazing red eyes with flames for pupils regarded Nidar. Their savage intensity scoured away all thought and ignited terrible, fearful anxiety. There was an insatiable hunger in their depths and Nidar could feel that hunger reaching for her. Those eyes did not want to just kill her, they wanted to devour her.Welcome to Foji. Welcome to The Forge.Nidar is a saikushi, a unique type of kishpu that can use the open nexus on Foji to craft powerful artefacts imbued with the energies of Anki. She is plagued by nightmares that she cannot control and as they intensify, she realises that the only way to stop them is to make a bargain which she may live to regret and that will have irrevocable consequences for the realm.Chronologically, The Forge is set before The Great Collapse and therefore before the events of Chosen Of The Dark Realm, book 1 of The Great Plan.