Alderpod - The Aldersgate Cycle Podcast
The Aldersgate is a steampunk western of epic scale, where the fate of the world rests on a final showdown between steam and sorcery.
Cora Grey is a seventeen year old Alderclass girl who loves stories of chivalry and romance. But it isn't easy being one of only five girls in Vell, the small Territories town where her father is the Alderman. Just as she finally musters up the courage to tell her best friend, the blacksmith's son Brick, how she truly feels about him, all the hells break loose.
The Order of the Oak, the Queen's messenger knights, sweep through Vell and abduct all Alderclass girls--including Cora's younger sister Denna. Cora narrowly escapes with the help of her maid Gem, and the town's eccentric inventor, a diminutive woman named Professor. They descend into darkness and Cora finds herself an unwelcome guest in a wondrous underground city called the Nithings, inhabited by the peculiar Sibs. Which would be welcome--except that the Sibs, and their home, aren't supposed to exist outside of fairy stories at all.
Cora's story, along with those of the bard Emry Roy, the knight Sir Sylvan DeLoire, Princess Ellinora, and the queen's high counselor Kaythra Bav, sets the stage for a coming war between technology and magic and draw them all toward the Aldersgate, where the final outcome will determine the fate of their world.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Episodes
- 32
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2009
Alderpod #12 – Chapter Ten: Fiddles in the Dark
Chapter Ten: Fiddles in the Dark, aka, Alderpod 12 is now live! Into the Nithings we go, and we learn more about what it is that the Sibs are, and what exactly our bard thinks of Cora Grey.
Alderpod #11 – Chapter Nine: Remembrance
Alderpod 11 – Chapter Nine: Remembrance
Yay! Alderpod #11 is alive and kicking. I must say, due to variety of characters in this particular chapter, I had more fun reading this than any other of…
Alderpod #10 – Chapter Eight: Below
Alderpod #10: Chapter Eight – Below
Podcasting has been moving at the speed of light as of late; not only do I have #10 ready, but I also have recorded and finished #11, and #12 is just awaiting…
Alderpod #8 – Chapter Six – Man of the Open Road
I present to you now Alderpod #8 – Chapter Six – Man of the Open Road, mostly completed… There are sections of this that may or may not be in the final version… but I have always liked this …
Alderpod #5 – Chapter Three: The Bard
It’s here!
Alderpod #5 – Chapter Four: The Bard
I am super excited about Podcast #5. I’m learning as I go along here, and have a new microphone that, at first was more headache than anything. But no…
Alderpod #4 – In Which I Babble About Fantasy Writing
I present Alderpod #4 which contains lots of babbling and chattering on my behalf, and relatively little in the way of story (and is listed as #3, but is really #4… or the fourth… if you count the fi…