An S. M. Grey Series
THE FORGE’S REQUIEM TRILOGY
Altrameda is a machine.
From the day the Tinkerer brought Altrameda to life, her perception of the world has been coloured by humans, regardless of her metal chassis and advanced circuitry. She is an anomaly, an oddity, that her Tinkerer vows to never replicate. Alone, she is a monument to human ingenuity - the masterwork of a brilliant, tortured mind.
After decades of abandonment, Altrameda wakes to learn that she is not the creation of the man she thought she knew.
She is a Stormforged.
She is a Preserver.
And she will fuel her peoples’ decisive resurgence… or be the reason they rust into obsolescence.
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BOOK ONE: THE STORMFORGED
Echoes of a forgotten strife resurface,
and the gears of fate turn anew.
Altrameda has served as a lab assistant and friend to the Tinkerer, her kind-hearted but perplexing inventor, for many years.
But when she wakes up to discover she has been abandoned in a basement for more than two decades, she wants an explanation.
With the help of an old friend, Altrameda tracks down the Tinkerer and learns that there is far more at stake than her own chassis. She learns the truth of her enigmatic origins, and begins to question the creator she thought she knew. The Tinkerer's past deeds - and misdeeds - threaten to unravel the known history of Falkirk...
…and set the future on an altogether new course.
BOOK TWO: THE UMBRAFORGED
Rusted machines yet linger
in the ruins of their forfeit empire.
When a strange, melodic transmission reaches Altrameda, she cannot decrypt it, and neither can the rest of the Council; all they know is that the signal comes from across the sea. An expedition departs. The Tempest’s Break makes an unprecedented journey for unknown shores.
Confronted with the reality of her languishing existence, along with the consequences of a centuries-old conflict, Altrameda finds that her sense of duty outweighs her sorrow. She finds that with enough of a push…
… she might drive her people to reckon with a dire fate of their own design.
Months after the end of the Mechanist’s siege, the city of New Canton welcomes a steady stream of reawakened Stormforged. The once-forgotten machines are well and truly settling back into Falkirk.
BOOK THREE: THE DREADFORGED
COMING 2026