Infinite Forge 3 (Forging Without Limits #3)

Ten months in Dunmore. The work has changed the town. The town has changed the work.

In the stone-kin chambers under the eastern district, seven containers have been waiting four hundred years for the right hands. The first holds a teaching stone that shows Edric his pieces are still making themselves, all of them, connected through the Imprint like roots beneath separate trees. The second holds a bowl that shows him the valley has been accumulating its own Imprint for five hundred years, organized around a potential that has finally arrived.

The potential is him.

Meanwhile: a garrison engineer needs an instrument that hears what structures are trying to say. A courier needs a vessel that carries meaning rather than words. A shield-bearer needs something that extends his twenty-one years of knowing what's coming outward into the space around him. A cartographer realizes the map she has been making her whole career is incomplete in a specific and solvable way.

The workshop has a Legendary baseline now. The ambient stock produces it on its own. The craft is tending a garden and the garden has started to grow things the crafter didn't plant.