Fifteen hundred years ago, something broke the world. Nobody living remembers it and the record does not explain it.
What stands now was built afterward, by people who had nothing and started anyway. Their cities still run. The machines still turn. The work of keeping it that way falls to people whose names nobody bothers to learn.
Calythera is a walk through that world, one piece at a time. Not a game, not a campaign. Just a place that shouldn't still be standing, and the people who make sure it is.
The cover art and music for this show are AI-generated.
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First Episodes
Trailer — The City Wakes
Two minutes inside a city that runs on aether, at the moment each morning when the pressure comes back up and the whole place starts moving at once. Calythera is an au...
Trailer - The Machine
Sixty seconds inside a stamping machine at the moment it fires. Calythera is an audio-fiction documentary of a steampunk world — a civilization that was broken fiftee...
Trailer — The Sound of Deepgarden
Ninety seconds inside a cavern where the sound comes at you from every direction at once. Calythera is an audio-fiction documentary of a steampunk world — a civilizat...
Trailer - The Long Road
Three minutes on the only road that runs south, walking it until there is no more of it. Calythera is an audio-fiction documentary of a steampunk world — a civilizati...
Arrival
Steampunk taken seriously: a civilization that runs on something physical you can read, direct, and get badly wrong, held up entirely by the people who learned to read...