Airovale – Episode 1: Life in the Village (Official Video)

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Life in the Village: The opening chapter paints Airovale as a bustling steampunk capital where trade, invention, and ambition collide in smoke and song. Amid markets and zeppelins, we meet Aden, a gaunt orphan whose act of giving away an apple becomes the story’s quiet thesis: exchange defines life. Elara, the quartermaster’s daughter, records arrivals with brisk control, while Malina, a centuries-old seer, plants a cursed map into a pilot’s pocket.

Ordinary farewells mingle with extravagant promises—gold, love, immortality—yet the quartermaster’s parable lingers: “We pay for life with time.” By the end, Aden earns his place aboard the Nereid, stepping into a future balanced on desire and consequence. As a first chapter, it’s both lush tableau and foreshadowing engine, inviting readers to savor the city’s richness while sensing the storm ahead. If you enjoy worlds where myth and machinery meet, this opening feels like both welcome and warning.

About Airovale: Airovale is a sweeping tale of marooned aeronauts, forbidden love, and an island where time itself demands its due. Fans of steampunk fantasy, forbidden romance, and mythic world-building will be swept away into a story where every kiss, every betrayal, and every choice echoes across generations.
When a storm maroons a zeppelin crew on a forgotten island, they believe survival means food, fire-stone, and a way home. But Airovale is no ordinary island. Here, fae walk beside mortals, beasts bend to their guardians, and a single day lingers as a year beyond its shores.

The villagers warn: 'This island never gives—there is only exchange.'

Drawn into the mysteries of the canyon city and the glowing ruins beneath the river, young aeronaut Aden discovers more than danger. With Kira, the fae daughter of an elder bound by duty to another, he learns the island’s hidden law of time, love, and consequence. Every choice exacts a price, and desire itself can tip the balance.

As greed devours his crew, as war stirs between human and fae, Aden and Kira must decide whether to return to a world that has already aged beyond them—or risk everything in a portal that could cast them centuries into the past.

Continue with Airovale Episode 2: The Crescent Islands.