Vienna Shadows

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Demons! Ghosts! Mystery! Lovecraftian cosmic horrror! All set in an alternative history of 1920s Vienna! Join us, as we use AI to build together a world of horror and dark fantasy!

  1. Sep 11

    Vienna Shadows #035: Writers and the Void

    This guide explores the literary landscape of 1920s Vienna—the realm of coffeehouse intellectuals, satirical polemicists, psychological novelists, and doomed poets—and their role in shaping the dark, jazzpunk horrors of Vienna Shadows. In this setting, the written and spoken word is not merely human expression; it is the ontological code that holds the city's waking reality together.

  2. Aug 28

    Vienna Shadows #34: Time Travel

    This podcast is generated with AI. This guide refines Time Travel, Retro-Causality, and Temporal Displacement in the Vienna Shadows tabletop roleplaying game. By expanding the cosmic cycle to a 100-Year Centurial Harmonic Resonance and incorporating Emperor Rudolf II’s pioneering occult research, temporal journeys now bridge the imperial renaissance, the jazzpunk 1920s, and the distant, hyper-connected void of the 2020s and beyond.

  3. Aug 8

    Vienna Shadows #33: Viennese Composers, Musical Geometry, and the Sator Square

    This guide explores the musical masters of Vienna—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johann Strauss, and the Second Viennese School—and their secret role in shaping the dark landscape of 1920s Vienna Shadows. In this setting, music is not merely art; it is spatial engineering. The compositions echoing through the Musikverein and the Opera House are mathematical equations designed to either bind or unleash cosmic entities. This content was generated with AI

  4. Jul 29

    Vienna Shadows #32: The Great War, The Fallen Hunt, and the Ruin of Empire

    This guide explores the catastrophic collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I (1914–1918) and its lingering, apocalyptic impact on 1920s Vienna Shadows. In this setting, the millions of young men slaughtered in the mud of Galicia, the Isonzo, and the Italian Alps did not rest—their collective post-traumatic agony coalesced into a modern, terrifying incarnation of the Wild Hunt (Die Wilde Jagd).

  5. Jul 17

    Vienna Shadows #31: Wiener Jugendstil and the Secession

    This guide explores the radical artistic explosion of Wiener Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) and the Wiener Secession at the turn of the century, tracing how its iconic figures—Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, and Otto Wagner—directly shape the dark, jazzpunk reality of 1920s Vienna. In this setting, the breaking of classic academic art rules was not just an aesthetic rebellion; it was a deliberate tearing away of the cultural veil to expose the raw, shifting geometries of the Outer Void.

  6. Jul 13

    Vienna Shadows #30: The Long 19th Century and the Mechanized Void

    This guide explores the transformation of Vienna during the "Long 19th Century" (approx. 1789–1918) and its lasting, devastating impact on the 1920s Vienna Shadows universe. In this era, the rise of industrialization, massive urban expansion, and the tearing down of the city's ancient walls did not eliminate cosmic entities—it mechanized them. The infrastructure of the modern city is a circuit board wired directly into the outer dark.

  7. Jul 9

    Vienna Shadows #29: Habsburg Occultism

    This guide explores the secret occult legacy of the House of Habsburg and how their centuries-long hoarding of esoteric knowledge, cosmic artifacts, and forbidden magic shapes the dark landscape of 1920s Vienna. It utilizes the D6 Roll-Under rules system and integrates the real-world eccentricities of the imperial lineage into the secret War of the Robes.

  8. Jun 27

    Vienna Shadows #28: The Baroque Blindspot

    This guide explores the deep historical transition from the Frühe Neuzeit (Early Modern Period, approx. 1500–1800) to the 1920s in the Vienna Shadows universe. It examines how the rationalist reforms of the Enlightenment (Aufklärung) failed to banish Vienna's ancient terrors. Instead, by dismantling old beliefs, the era of reason stripped humanity of its traditional defense mechanisms, leaving modern citizens completely vulnerable to the cosmic horrors waiting in the dark.

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Demons! Ghosts! Mystery! Lovecraftian cosmic horrror! All set in an alternative history of 1920s Vienna! Join us, as we use AI to build together a world of horror and dark fantasy!

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  • Creator
    Vienna Shadows
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    35
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Vienna Shadows
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