Dark fantasy from CDarkmoon — a drowned canal city, a whispering shard of a shattered god, and a thief who pays for every truth in glass and blood.
Enter TharrosFree reader's companion
The Drowned Almanac is a lamplighter's field notebook of the things that share the canals with the good people of Tharros — the salt-drowned dead, the gargoyles that were never carved, the mirror-walkers who wear your own face. It's free, it's the same voice the whole series is written in, and it's the fastest way into this world before Book One arrives.
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The novel
Book One of The Shattered Glass Saga
Ren Talvos was a street thief until the crystal hidden in his master's workshop bonded to his skin — and started whispering truths he never asked to see. Every vision costs him a little more of himself; his hand is already turning to glass. Now the Salt Priests want the shard for the god they feed the city's children, a crime syndicate wants the district it sits beneath, and something vast is stirring under the tide — something that has learned his name.
Adult dark fantasy · 18+Go deeper
The city, its cults, its creatures, and its magic are documented in full on World Anvil — built to be explored, and built to double as a 5E-compatible tabletop setting if you'd rather sit at the table than turn the page.
Explore Tharros on World Anvil →For the table
If you play as much as you read, my sister project Darkmoon Print makes tabletop-ready minis, terrain, and props pulled straight from this world — canal-city scenery, Old Glass relics, and more, sized for your game table, not your bookshelf.
Visit Darkmoon Print →The community
Darkmoon's Hideout is where readers, players, and lantern-carriers gather — early lore, cover reveals, writing and worldbuilding streams, and first word the day Book One drops. Pull up a chair by the canal.
The author
CDarkmoon writes dark, rain-soaked fantasy about the price of power. The Shattered Glass Saga — an eight-book epic set in the drowned canal city of Tharros — began with a single question: what would you pay to see the truth, if every truth left a scar? The First Shard is the first book in the series.