Book One is out now

Every truth costs flesh.

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.

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The series

The Shattered Glass Saga

Eight shards of a shattered god. Eight bearers. Eight prices Ren has to pay to claim them — an epic dark-fantasy saga set in the drowned canal city of Tharros and the wider world of Veyrune.

Book One

The First Shard

Out now

A street thief bonds to a whispering shard of the Old Glass — and every truth it shows him is paid for in flesh.

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The Drowning Deep
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Book Two

The Drowning Deep

Coming

The Shard of Sight showed Ren the truth. The Shard of Memory will show him the past — and the past, in Tharros, does not stay drowned.

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Light your lantern. The city is waiting.

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Go deeper

Tharros is only the first city.

The Shattered Glass Saga spans Veyrune — a maritime continent of rival city-states, drowned ruins, and older, worse things. I'm building it in the open on World Anvil: the wider world Ren has to cross, and a 5E-compatible tabletop setting if you'd rather sit at the table than turn the page.

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For the table

Bring Tharros to your 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.

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The community

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Darkmoon's Hideout is where readers, players, and lantern-carriers gather — early lore, cover reveals, writing and worldbuilding streams, and first word on everything that comes after Book One. Pull up a chair by the canal.

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The author

About CDarkmoon

CDarkmoon writes dark, rain-soaked fantasy about the price of power. The Shattered Glass Saga — an eight-book epic set in the world of Veyrune, beginning 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.