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Etheros is a living, intelligent biomechanical planet: an intricate world of evolving species, layered civilizations, intimate human stories and vast planet-born machines that build, repair and nourish its ecosystems. Explore the art, follow the stories, and take part in the community.
1 mediaThe Last Manifest Before the Glass Keel By the time the first pale light reached the arches of Vardel Exchange, the freight hall had already been awake for six hours. Sunlight, br
1 mediaWhen the third sky-bell rang above Veyrun, every ferry pilot on the upper terraces held one hand against a rail and listened for the answer. The waterfalls were loud enough to drow
1 mediaAbove the waterfalls of Marrin Span, the freight never truly stopped. It slowed for storms, it changed direction with the pressure tides, and sometimes it waited for a living carri
1 mediaIn the high terraces below Bellwater's blue domes, harvest began long before the city heard its first public bell. Water fell from the mountain into the upper spillways, ran throug
1 mediaAt the Orrinel Conservatory, the oldest occupation in the city was not tending the fish. It was listening to the water before the fish had reason to complain. Mael had worked the
1 mediaThe High-Vault Station was built around a creature too large to pass through any of its doors. That was not an architectural mistake. The doors had been constructed afterward, when
1 mediaAt the heart of Selen Vey, beneath bridges so old that their arches had learned the rhythms of the water, the city had gathered to tend the creature that carried its drinking tide.
1 mediaIn the high-water city of Ilvarin, nobody called the walking carrier a machine. It was older than most of the bridges and it could feel a crack forming in stone through the soles o
1 mediaAt Ravel Quay, the cargo did not arrive when the bells rang. It arrived when the city was ready to bear its weight. The woman with the gilded ledger was called Tessa Vael, a keepe
1 mediaBy the time the sun cleared the high viaducts of Aurel Reach, every drinking cistern in the eastern terraces had begun to ring. That was how the city marked the approach of a servi
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