HEARTHWANE · GLASSMASTER
human, 58
Lit the Rimewick furnace for the first time as its master, and has not let it go out since.
THEIR STORY
Ansel Brigg has kept the Rimewick furnace for thirty years, and the hamlet lives by it. He is fair with his workers, hard on his apprentices and proud of both. This winter he bought an old pane of glass cheap from a pedlar off the heights to hang in his fair-booth, cold to the touch even by the fire. It broke at the fair, and his apprentice is gone.
FROM
Rimewick, below the snow line of Kestrel Heights
HOW THEY LOOK
Broad and slow, grey to the eyebrows with furnace ash, forearms speckled with old burns. Never without a blowpipe, even with no glass on it.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
“Bring him back. Bring the glass back. In that order.”
“Glass remembers the hand that made it. That one didn't.”
BEFORE THE TALE
30 years ago · the Rimewick glassworks
Lit the Rimewick furnace for the first time as its master, and has not let it go out since.
6 years ago · the Rimewick glassworks
Took on Arlen Holloway, a boy who broke everything, because he had never seen hands so quick.
this year · the midwinter fair
Watched the pane fall in his booth and his apprentice laugh with a splinter in his eye.