The Copper Press
*Dispatches from a World Shattered by the Meteor*
“Ink remembers what empires burn.”
The Copper Press is a curated anthology of in-world broadsheets, field journals, private letters, and investigative reports drawn from across *Apocalyptica Arcanum*. Each volume captures a singular event—arcane catastrophe, cryptid manifestation, corporate conspiracy, battlefield miracle, or quiet tragedy—set against the ever-present hum of Shardisite and the long shadow of The Meteor.
These are not campaign transcripts. They are the stories people tell when they survive. Some have been later printed in respectable journals. Others circulate as penny dreadfuls, military letters, or smuggled pamphlets folded into coat linings. Each story stands alone. Together they form a cartography of consequence. All can be considered canon to the world unless proven otherwise.
Volume I–VII: The Early Dispatches
The first volumes established the tone of the Press: exploration, consequence, and the cost of knowledge in a world remade. From frozen vaults of crystallized memory to cobbled alleys haunted by brass silhouettes, these volumes ask a simple question: What happens when belief, industry, and grief share the same fuel?
Volume VIII–XIV: Songs, Storms & Shardfire
The later volumes widen the world—deserts that bleed glass, oceans that sing, cities that devour their own scholars.
What the Copper Press Is — and Is Not
The Copper Press is:
- A literary archive within the setting
- A window into regions and cultures beyond active campaigns
- A tone piece for the moral gravity of this world
- A testing ground for myth, manifestation, and rumor
It is not:
- A definitive historical record
- A guarantee of narrator reliability
- Free from propaganda, censorship, or misdirection
Every broadsheet has an editor. Every editor has a patron.
For Game Masters & Scholars
These volumes can be used as:
- In-world handouts
- Rumor tables and adventure seeds
- Cultural references for regions such as Cascadia, Shanghai, Panama, Lemuria, Atlantis, and beyond
- Case studies in Shard manifestation and the interplay of Choir and Legion
If a future campaign crosses paths with one of these events, assume the truth is stranger than the print.
Ongoing Publication
The Copper Press remains open.
New volumes will appear as the world fractures further, as new angels rise, as demons whisper, as industry presses its thumb deeper into glowing stone.
When ink dries on the next catastrophe, it will be archived here.
Until then—
Choose your volume. Turn the page. Listen for the hum beneath the paper.