The True Glass
Cael keeps the front of Kazmir’s glass shop in the goblin city of Korrvik — the standing orders, the regulars, the salamander asleep by the furnace. It isn’t the life he was born to. Somewhere along the way, the shop stopped being temporary and started being home.
“The glass only answers to the truth.”
A whole city, built around a flame.
Korrvik is a goblin city built on forge fire and glassblowing, where the finest work carries magic worked into the glass itself — and answers to nothing but the truth. Cael keeps the counter at Kazmir’s, the city’s finest shop, hiding the real reason he came. He’s an elf in a goblin city, the last of a people who undid themselves.
Then Kazmir starts teaching him the craft that matters. When the city’s politics turn on the old man and the shop is suddenly Cael’s to hold alone, the people who quietly became his family close ranks. The True Glass is a slow-burn story about craft, found family, and the truth you can’t keep hiding forever.
Warm, not whimsical
Grounded, character-driven, and kind. An artisan’s workshop, never a battlefield.
Low-stakes by design
No prophecy, no chosen one. Just craft, community, and the slow mending of things.
A living city
Glassblowers, apothecaries, and forge-smiths — Korrvik is a place you’ll want to return to.
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Jay D. Anderson
Jay writes cozy, character-driven fantasy about the people who make and mend things. The True Glass began as a single image — amber light through a glassblower’s shop window — and grew, slowly, into a city.
When not in Korrvik, Jay can be found near a kettle, a cluttered desk, and far too many half-finished notebooks.