The Last Foundry

After refusing to certify an unsafe royal bridge, surveyor Marek Venn is sent to Greybank, a struggling frontier settlement with a failing mine, an abandoned foundry, and an empty treasury.

His thirty-six-month charter gives him one year to deliver six tons of certified iron—or risk a five-year operating concession to the powerful Crown Company.

But Greybank has only twenty-three days of food, roads that cannot carry heavy wagons, unsafe mines, and workers who no longer trust their rulers.

Marek has no magic or miraculous inventions. He has an engineer's eye, a surveyor's discipline, and a belief that honest work can rebuild a broken system.

To save Greybank, he must restore its industry, secure its supply lines, earn the people's trust, and build institutions strong enough to withstand those who seek to control them.

A grounded progression fantasy of engineering, kingdom building, industrial development, and political intrigue.