Hey @frosted-night, @sp00kfr0st, you know that starglass hc you came up with? I have some more stuff to add to it!
-You have to apprentice a craftsperson for about 5 years to be able to work with it as a profession (you start out with regular glassblowing techniques then learn the Secret™️ of preserving a dream within the sand whilst it melts into glass)
-In addition to preserving dreams, you can store MEMORIES in the form of dreams! (Dream of a memory, then it can be preserved)
-The glass covering Mother Nature’s portrait in the locket is definitely starglass and has her sweetest memories with her father preserved
-Because of how protective Star Captains are of their stars, it can be hard to convince one to allow some of their star to be solidified, so it’s really expensive and only the very VERY wealthy of the Golden Age can buy a preserved dream
-Except for the royalty, for the royal families they do special commissions at a lower price (the glass window ports of the Moon Clipper are definitely starglass bc obviously)
-The glassblowers are adept at preserving the dream’s original shape in glass, going so far as to sculpt it almost effortlessly into the most whimsical of shapes
-To reveal the dream, one must simply shine a light through the glass onto a blank background like a projector, then the dream will play out almost like a home movie
-There are also dream mirrors, which let you replay whatever dreams you had last night when looking at yourself in them
-If you’ve never dreamed (like Nightlight), the mirror only reflects yourself and acts as if it’s made of regular glass
-If a piece is broken off or if the glass splinters/shatters, the dream distorts or won’t even be playable
-And if the sand is corrupted before it’s turned into glass it looks like obsidian (think that one scene in the movie where Jack freezes a nightmare onto the roof)