Title Forge of the Mind Slayers Book 2 of Blade of the flame, Tim Waggoner Volume 2 of Eberron Novel: Blade of the Flame Author Tim Waggoner Edition illustrated Publisher Wizards of the Coast, 2007 ISBN 0786943130, 9780786943135 Length 312 pages Tim Waggoner Wizards of the Coast, 2007 - Fiction - 312 pages Living in the war-ravaged realm of Eberron, assassin-turned-priest Diran Bastiaan and his half-orc sidekick, Ghaji, make an unlikely pair. One looks like the stuff of nightmares, while the other is "a conduit through which the holy force of Good could work its will in the physical world." Together, they have traveled throughout the archipelagic Lhazaar Principalities sharing numerous wild adventures, but none were as dangerous as the one they currently face. When a gang of bloodthirsty pirates kidnaps Diran's former lover (a beautiful ex-mercenary killer named Makala), the priest of the Silver Flame and his half-breed wingman vow to get her -- and countless other abductees -- back no matter what the cost. But the seafaring raiders are no ordinary criminals; they're led by the infamous vampire Onkar, who in turn serves a being unfathomably more evil than himself.