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The Aether Crucible - Chapter One
Helena Carroux
18 hours ago193 min
Steampunk

The Aether Crucible - Chapter One

A city reshaped by an aetheric rescue, where tools and hands bind power into public practice. Elara navigates grief, builds a cooperative that trains stewards, and helps reforge governance after a costly sacrifice. The last scenes show steady light returning to neighborhoods.

Regulator of Ether
Ulrika Vossen
Sep 30, 202535 min
Steampunk

Regulator of Ether

In a brass-and-steam city, clocksmith Mira Calder uncovers the Regulator's hidden role: distilling citizens' memories into power. When her brother is taken as a calibration subject, she must infiltrate the heart of the machine with a mechanical Lark and an old family cipher to stop a synchronized harmonization.

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The Aether Dial of Brasswick
Liora Fennet
Sep 22, 202533 min
Steampunk

The Aether Dial of Brasswick

In a smoky, gear-driven metropolis, a young mechanic named Juniper Hale must recover a stolen device that keeps the city aloft. Steampunk adventure of theft, salvage, and quiet courage where inventions and friendships mend a city's fragile balance.

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Gearsong over Brassford
Wendy Sarrel
Sep 22, 202534 min
Steampunk

Gearsong over Brassford

In gear-crowded Brassford, young engineer Elara Prynn defies a guild edict when the city’s heart engine falters. Guided by a renegade mentor and a mechanical pangolin, she braves steam tunnels and sky bazaars to restore balance, expose sabotage, and rekindle trust.

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Aurelia Finch and the Lattice of Brasshaven
Laurent Brecht
Sep 22, 202533 min
Steampunk

Aurelia Finch and the Lattice of Brasshaven

In a vertical steampunk city, young mechanic Aurelia Finch must clear her father's name after the Lattice—the network of air currents that keeps the city aloft—is sabotaged. With a clockwork fox and a band of unlikely allies, she uncovers a corporate plot and restores the city's balance.

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Poppy Gearhart and the Singing Spring
Agatha Vorin
Sep 18, 202548 min
Steampunk

Poppy Gearhart and the Singing Spring

In the steam-laced city of Fogfen, 11-year-old Poppy Gearhart hears the pipes whisper for help. With a brass bird, a sootling, and a kindly kitesmith’s Echo-Lens, she descends into Old Boilerworks to find a legendary Singing Spring—only to face the Guild’s plan to cage it. Listening becomes her bravest invention.

The Clockwork Cadence
Mariette Duval
Sep 18, 202550 min
Steampunk

The Clockwork Cadence

In a layered steampunk city, a young clock conservator, Ada Calder, discovers the Heartfurnace's vital tuning coil has been stolen. With a brass fox, a temperamental synchronometer, and unlikely allies, she follows the lost pulse through Spireworks and the Undercoil, restoring the city's shared rhythm and forcing a reckoning over who controls progress.

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The Tinker Who Tuned the Sky
Nathan Arclay
Sep 18, 202542 min
Steampunk

The Tinker Who Tuned the Sky

In a brass-and-steam city, young mechanic Aya Thorn uncovers a plot to siphon the winds and centralize power. With a clockwork bird, a weathered captain, and a band of unlikely allies, she must mend machines and minds alike to return the city's breath to its people.

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The Aetherheart of Gearhaven
Melanie Orwin
Sep 18, 202532 min
Steampunk

The Aetherheart of Gearhaven

In a steam-wreathed city where an ancient Aether engine keeps light and warmth, a young mechanist seeks a missing harmonic cog. Her search uncovers a conspiracy to redirect the city's pulse. With a clockwork fox and a ragtag band, she must mend the Heart and forge a new stewardship of the city's breath.

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Aether & Brass: The Gearford Chronicles
Ronan Fell
Sep 18, 202547 min
Steampunk

Aether & Brass: The Gearford Chronicles

In a smoky city of cogs and airships, young clocksmith Elara Finch follows a stolen whisper in the city's aether. With a brass compass, a clockwork fox, and a daring crew, she exposes a private siphon and fights to return the Regulator and the balance of Gearford.

Gears of the Aurelian Sky
Yara Montrel
Sep 18, 202545 min
Steampunk

Gears of the Aurelian Sky

In smog-thinned Gearhaven, 23-year-old inventor El Hartwell uncovers the theft of a Nimbus Cog—an engine tooth that keeps the city aloft. She assembles unlikely allies, faces a powerful industrialist, and restores the city's breath with brass, cunning, and a newfound community of tinkerers.

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The Brass Meridian
Celina Vorrel
Sep 18, 202525 min
Steampunk

The Brass Meridian

In a soot-stained steampunk metropolis, cartographer-inventor Iris Vane races to recover fragments of the stolen Meridian Key. With a clockwork raven, an old captain, and a ragged crew, she confronts a power-hungry councilor to restore her city's balance and reshape its future.

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The Aether of Broken Sundials
Pascal Drovic
Sep 17, 202536 min
Steampunk

The Aether of Broken Sundials

In a layered steampunk city whose heart runs on a crystalline Heartstone, a young clocksmith named Ada Thornwell must uncover who stole the Hearth's power. Gifted with a brass aether compass and a stubborn courage, she boards an iron fortress, clashes with a baron who would centralize the city's breath, and fights to return the stone and teach a city to tend itself again.

The Salvage of Ironmire
Marcel Trevin
Sep 17, 202528 min
Steampunk

The Salvage of Ironmire

In a soot-swept steampunk city, Maia Voss, a young tinkerer, fights to reclaim the Heart of her home when the magistrate seizes the aether reserves. With a ragtag crew, a brass raven, and a salvaged key, she undertakes a daring theft, rewires the city's power, and sparks a movement to make the Heart belong to the people.

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Aether Bloom
Thomas Gerrel
Sep 17, 202531 min
Steampunk

Aether Bloom

In the brass-breathed city of Gearford, young inventor Juniper Vale and her clockwork fox Cogs chase a conspiracy that drains the Clockspire's aether. With an old mapmaker's compass and a captain's courage, Juniper must untangle lattices of greed to restore the city's heartbeat.

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