Zensteel and Izenjaws

Yarmian Eventyde, a foundling cast off a boat in the sleepy dull as ditchwater Carpidian town of Dulluston.
Yarmian Eventyde, apprenticed for fifteen years (or was it sixteen?) until finally declared a qualified Wizzen by the centuries-old Master who took him in and gave him his name.
Yarmian, who when tragedy strikes, takes up his half-staff and leaves home for the first time, with cold vengeance in his heart.
There is a ship, The Idalina, in for repairs at Dulluston's quay, and serendipity sees Yarmian board the vessel. Little does the young WIzzen know that the ship, and its reluctant captain and crew, will propel him across the Carpidian Sea into dangers far greater than any he and his friends back in Dulluston could ever have imagined...