Characters
Antagonist
Archivist Corvin Hale
Master of the Saltglass Archive, convinced the Second Moon can be mended — whatever the cost.
Supporting
Iska Thorn
A pearl diver from the lower piers who knows the drowned streets better than anyone alive.
Protagonist
Maelis Varr
The young Tide Queen of Ostrabel, who hears the drowned bells and fears what they are asking of her.
Historical figure
Queen Oriane Varr
Maelis’s mother, who vanished at the Drowned Cathedral five years ago.
Geography
City
Ostrabel
The bell-city capital, built on stilts and stone piers above a drowned harbor.
Landmark
The Drowned Cathedral
A vast cathedral swallowed by the Long Tide, revealed only during the lowest tides of the year.
Region
The Harrow Moors
Windswept highlands inland from the coast, home to standing stones and exiled scholars.
Continent
Vaelmora
A storm-wrapped continent of tidal cliffs, salt marshes and drowned cities, where the sea rises and falls with the moons.