The Glasswright's Compass

About this book

In the coastal principality of Veridia, artisan families sustain their port city by forging tide-glass: hand-blown, coral-tinted vessels that safely navigate merchant hulls through seasonal fog banks. Seventeen-year-old Elias is the reluctant heir to his lineage’s workshop, burdened by a chronic hand tremor that shatters his conventional glasswork and a secret passion for drawing astronomical charts. When the Merchant Guild demands he fire a vital ceremonial monsoon lens, his hesitation threatens his family's livelihood. Parallel to Elias's struggle is the history of his great-grandmother, Master Glasswright Isolde. Decades earlier, when the Crown mandated rigid standardization of tide-song molds, Isolde secretly recalibrated acoustic geometry, encoding her progressive techniques within innocent-looking nautical star maps. When Elias uncovers Isolde’s archived ledgers, he realizes that tradition was never meant to be a static replication. Fusing his mapmaking instincts with glasscraft, Elias sets out to invent a mechanical bypass for his tremor, discovering that true legacy requires the courage to redesign its methods.

Book details

Genres:

Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult

Language:

en

Published:

2026-05-03

Content rating:

G