All Episodes
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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...
Aeloria
A continent you do not cross. You spend a lifetime inside it and still do not finish. Aeloria is large enough that its four great cities look like something someone se...
Aether
This is the one that explains how the world actually works, and it is deliberately the densest episode of the run. Aether is the physical substance everything in Calyt...
Ashmourne Spire
A man heard something from across a dead world, turned toward it, and walked. He dug for years to reach it and died at the bottom of the hole he made. The city that gr...
Author's Notes I: The Weight of Starting
Every fifth episode steps out of the world and into the workshop. Author’s Notes is the creator of Calythera talking plainly about how this world gets built: the decis...
The Mourning
Fifteen hundred years ago something took the whole of the south. Every city, every road, everyone standing on any of it. Nobody on this continent disputes that it happ...
Cogwrights
Fifteen hundred years after the Mourning, the lamps are lit in every city on this continent and the lines run from the coast to the mountains and back, and nearly all ...
The Hailer
Some evenings in fog season the sea fog comes down over Brassveil Port so thick a person loses the far side of their own street, and the whole city heads for the wharf...