[Location] Zeltivan Glassworks

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Zeltivan Glassworks The Zeltivan glassworks have been in operation in their current incarnation for a number of years. Located a short distance from the market place where many of their more esoteric pieces are displayed and available for purchase, the workshop hosts three functioning ovens that when lit let off a plume of thick smoke high into the sky above the city. Although the owners of the workshop have long held the lease on space in the market for a stall from which to sell their wares the majority of the income comes from requisition orders sent down from the university. The academics and students of Zeltiva University have much use for glass, from the vials and phials used in experimentation and scholarly research to the dishware and bottles in the kitchens. The glass produced in Zeltiva is not remarkable when compared to that of Riverfall or Wind Reach, indeed the only reason that the manufacture of glass in the harbour city remains steady is the sheer convenience of a local source and the much reduced cost of shipping. If one is looking to procure a specialised piece it would perhaps be best to look abroad. The layout of the workshop is fairly simple. It squats between two old stone buildings on a space that once housed a garden before the Valterrian. Three hundred years after the catastrophe changed the very face of the world a man from Syliras bought up the land and set up the workshop as a smithy. The business was later purchased and re-imagined, the furnaces replaced with the ovens that stand there today. The building east of the workshop holds the offices and residence of Johann Calbert, current proprietor of the glassworks, whilst the western building houses storage for completed orders awaiting retrieval. The workshop employs a number of apprentices, the most inexperienced of whom are paid nothing but experience with the glass. NPC : Johann Calbert 55 Glassworking 30 Etching 30 Negotiation The current owner of the Zeltivan glassworks, Calbert counts himself as an expert of the glass art despite very little claim to that title. A brash man who delights in money, Calbert inherited the workshop from his mentor and teacher upon the man’s death as he was the most skilled at that time. His ability with glass, though arguably poor in comparison to the Inartan masters, or those of the Akalak, are unsurpassed within the city and due to his uncanny ability to sniff out a lucrative business opportunity, he can frequently be seen making trips to the university’s administrative offices baring bottles of quality wine. Physically he is a plump man, with an oft red face and many a burn on his hands. Though it may be surprising, his dedication to his art is wholehearted, and he is willing to listen to anyone who appreciates a well-crafted statuette. Credit to Montaine