The Aetherhollow Archive is a steampunk romance soaked in a gallon of magic. It is set in Summersmead, the fictional empire from the book you are sucked into. 

Four hundred years after the Chosen One failed to save their world, you find yourself in the shoes of the presumed, and freshly murdered, villain of the story - ostentatiously called Sovereign. You embark on a journey to unfold the mysteries of this new world and find a way home. But with your killer lurking in the shadows, who can you trust?

Genre: Steampunk, Fantasy, Romance, Mystery. Warnings: This story will be rated 18+ for depictions of death, violence, strong language, sexual themes, alcohol consumption, blood, etc.

  • Fully customizable MC.
  • Uncover Sovereign’s murderer.
  • Help the Chief of Police save the citizens from a mysterious drug.
  • Deal with the air pirates and their insufferable leader!
  • Fight an automaton army!
  • While you might be going slightly mad, too.
  • Fix (or destroy) the world. No pressure.
  • Six romance options (1 NB male, 2F and 3M - one straight).

Elian “Eli” Cabello -  the Hero [NB, he/they] ???
The new dashing hero of the story. As the younger sibling of the late Chosen One, Eli has the best motive to have killed Sovereign. Leader of the rebellion and with a knack of putting themselves in danger, will they come to finish the job?

Face claim: Miguel Angel Silvestre
Keyon Dalgliesh - the Advisor [M] ???
Sovereign’s trusted advisor and confidant. Keyon is an all-knowing (if not all-wise) polymath, well-versed in history, science and several languages. He can come off as a bit of a snob, but he might just be the only person who had Sovereign’s back. But will he consider you an impostor? 

Face claim: Tom Hiddlestione’s Loki
Rae Fairburne - the Mercenary [F] 25
The scruffy mercenary Sovereign signed a contract with right before dying. Cold-hearted and opportunist, Rae is top on the list of enemies, but she does not seem to care much for neither the politics nor the city. Could she have a better offer for your head?

Face claim: Cara Gee’s Camina Drummer
Blythe Haywarde - the Inventor [F] 27
The brilliant Inventor Sovereign was sponsoring. She spends most of her time in the workshop tower, tinkering and creating all sorts of devices, and obsessively cleaning her tools. As gentle a soul as you can find, Blythe seems to care more about the strays she saves than the world outside. Could a killer hide underneath the doe-like eyes?

Face claim: Anna Diop
Thane Winthrope - the Guard [M, straight] 34
The new head of the Guard. Stoic and built like a brick wall, Thane is a man of few words. He has recently been promoted following the death of many palace soldiers. You feel his eyes follow you everywhere, but that’s just his duty as your newly appointed bodyguard. Right? 

Face claim: Sebastian Stan
Alder - Pirate king [M] 38
Flirty and boisterous, the king of the air pirates seems like a ray of sunshine on a first glance. You really don’t want to get on his bad side, the man is positively unhinged.

Face claim: Tom Hardy


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StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Authortheomisù
GenreInteractive Fiction
TagsRomance, Steampunk, Text based

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Is this game still alive or abandoned?

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still alive, I've just been a bit overwhelmed irl.
I'll try to finish chapter 2 this summer though <3

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Can't wait! <3

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Love it so far!!!

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CANT WAIT!!!/pos

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A steam-punk portal-fantasy murder-mystery, you say? And I'm the (presumed) villain? Sign me up!

Though so far, I can't say that the Sovereign seems like a villain? Dalgliesh, Fairburne, the servant siblings and even the ghost of Angelica certainly seem to like them well enough.

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Hmm OG Sovereign was a different person to different people. They were not evil for evil's sake, but was rather ruthless when they wanted something go their way.

They are also an usurper, basically. Some hate them, some love them. You'll get some snippets of their diary as a bit of insight into their mind^^

I'm still not quite sure how evil I want MC Sovereign to get honestly 😅 I'm leaning a bit towards Homelander level, but I'm thinking some of the ROs will not be super happy about it.

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I can't say that I'm familiar with Homelander (I literally just googled it and went "oh the guy from that meme what has laser beam-eyes", but I'm still clueless as to his level of evil 😅). 

But regardless, this first chapter is quite the promising start; so I look forward to learning more about Sovereign and the rest of the cast, and the relationships between them - as well as to getting around to trying your Calamity Control.

Late reply but Homelander is a psychopathic character with narcissistic tendencies who kills people without blinking an eye, while toting himself a hero. He feels no remorse as long as it gives him power or is in his favor, and he has a twisted sexual perversion/ fetish with power and death. The only time he regrets anything is if his own actions come back to become his own undoing, but even then he would rather blame others for his folly. A really hateable character that's for sure 💀

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Hopefully this is the right place to say, but the menu bar on the top (at least for PC) actually covers a decent bit of text on each page. Sorry!

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Hey^^ Is your screen at 100%? Because if you make it smaller the text goes up under the menu, but at 100% it should look like this:
menu

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This was fantastic!  Can't wait for the next chapter!

Glad you like it so far! ♥

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Very well written and honestly a cool concept! Reminds me of one of those reincarnation manwha's that I tend to read but with steampunk aesthetic. I look forward to further development of this story and to find out more about our dear sovereign. :D

Hehe, I've always loved the isekai genre 🤭
Glad you're interested in the story! 💕