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Ideas become worlds.

Aethereal Forge builds playable experiments, strange systems and useful tools in the open — small worlds that you can walk into, take apart, and leave changed.

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Aethereal OS, running in this page.

One core, two shells: a desktop whose windows you can drag, resize and maximise, and a phone that opens the same apps. Notes, files, Cadence music, settings and a terminal that answers back — live in the frame below, in one file with no build step and no external requests.

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aethereal-forge.pages.dev / prototypes / aethereal-os Open standalone

Prototype: build 0.4 “Umbra” · interactive preview with sample data · nothing is installed and nothing leaves the page. Desktop: drag a window by its title bar, resize it from the corner, press ⌘K or Ctrl+K for the launcher. Phone: tap an app, then the bar at the bottom to go home.

The catalogue on Aether Shelf: four Angel Firelight titles from The Light We Weave series, each listed free and delivered to the shelf.

Aether Shelf · 2.0.0

One shelf for every book you own, buy or write.

Aether Shelf is a reading shelf with an author press under the same roof. Everything a reader already owns sits in one place — the files on their laptop, the purchases spread across other stores, the free catalogue — and it keeps their place across a phone and a browser.

Reads EPUB, PDF, Word documents and plain text
Imports a store order list, or adds a purchase by hand with its cover and link
A press for authors: pen name, terms, price, publish, author page
An Android app and the browser, the same shelf in both

In testing. The first titles are free to claim, sign-in is a Freebuff account, and the Android build is sideloaded rather than sold through Play. Nothing is charged yet: the store runs against Stripe's test mode until the live keys go in.

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Choose your doorway.

The Forge stays organized by what each project is for. Each collection has its own page, listings, and project links.

Built in the open, released with intent

Test early. Release carefully.

Projects can begin as experiments, move through focused testing, and become public releases when they are ready. Each collection keeps its own identity instead of flattening everything into one catalog.

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