Forbidden Glass
Cael came to Korrvik to steal the magic that arms a goblin empire. He never planned on the shop, the old man teaching him the craft, or the family that formed around him while he wasn’t looking. In Korrvik, glass rings when the truth is worked into it — and Cael is running out of places to hide his.
“The glass only answers to the truth.”
He came to steal their magic. He stayed for reasons he never planned on.
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 was sent here to learn the forbidden craft that arms a goblin empire, the last mission left to a people who no longer have a home to report back to.
Then Kazmir sees him do the one thing an elf should never be able to do — and starts teaching him anyway. Cael gets a place at the bench, a girl down the street whose compounds only hold in the glass he blows, and a found family that closes ranks around him. It holds right up until an old friend finds him again, asking him to trade all of it away quietly to protect what’s left of his people. Forbidden Glass is a slow-burn story about craft, found family, and what it costs to choose the truth when lying would be so much easier.
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 with a cup of coffee, a cluttered desk, and far too many half-finished notebooks.