The city
Gas lamps, cobbles, clockwork. Auslicht keeps what it cannot explain.
The Brass Veil
Auslicht after the lamps.
A Victorian-industrial city of brass, soot, and fog. Independent investigator Sasha Vanick follows impossible crimes toward a buried mystery: memory, machinery, and her missing older sister.
Case 1 Parts I, II, and III and Case 2 Parts I and II are live. Later parts stay sealed until they earn a play button.
Sasha Vanick
Former Examiner of Unnatural Deaths. She still collects evidence. She no longer waits for permission.
Elian
The missing older sister. The question under every case file.
Case ledger
Case One — Death at 11:17 · Inspector's Attaché. Parts I–III open.
Halterglass
Pale glass the city cannot quite account for. Handle it like a witness.
Faces of Auslicht
People and places
Character
Elian Vanick
Sasha’s older sister. Missing. The question under every case.
Character
Tovin Rook
Lockbreaker. Useful, insolent, and loyal — in that order, for now.
The sisters
Odelia Vanick
The chemistry room is hers. Strange cases arrive with her, or because of her.
The sisters
Maren Vanick
Propriety, a violin, and love that argues — and means it.
Landmark
The Meridian
The clock complex at the center of Auslicht.
Landmark
The Meridian
The clock complex at the center of Auslicht. The city’s organizing machine: you visit it, you do not pocket it.
Podcast · Brass Veil
Listen to The Brass Veil
Every case, in your ears. Case 1 Parts I–III and Case 2 Parts I–II are on the show.
Books · Brass Veil
Read the cases
The Brass Veil cases are on Amazon in Kindle and paperback.
Case One
Death at 11:17
Case Two
If I Died Twice
Live · Ep01
Case 1 · Part I — The Death
Five clocks stop at 11:17. Someone in a green coat walks away.
Live · Ep02
Case 1 · Part II — The Suspects
The apprentice has lied. Five clocks stopped at 11:17. Who walked away?
Live · Ep03
Case 1 · Part III — 11:17
Five clocks. One minute. Case One comes to its hour.
Live · Ep04
Case 2 · Part I — If I Died Twice
A millinery death. A riverside hat. A civic notice that will not sit still.
Live · Ep05
Case 2 · Part II — Wrong Answer
Three witnesses, kept apart. Every story lines up. One answer is wrong.
Stills · Ep01–05 · Book 3
Stills from Auslicht
Frames from the case, in episode order.
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Ep 1 · Title card: The Death -
Ep 1 · Six clocks -
Ep 1 · Edgar discovery -
Ep 1 · Vanick house -
Ep 1 · Sasha & Dimworth -
Ep 1 · Halterglass clue -
Ep 1 · Green coat witness -
Ep 1 · Cliffhanger -
Ep 2 · Title card: The Suspects -
Ep 2 · Vanick dinner -
Ep 2 · Tea stall papers -
Ep 2 · Cristianson grille -
Ep 2 · Fatigue band -
Ep 2 · Route book -
Ep 2 · Vlad office -
Ep 2 · Cliffhanger -
Ep 3 · Title card: 11:17 -
Ep 3 · Inspector office milk -
Ep 3 · Voss lab clocks -
Ep 3 · Odelia chemistry -
Ep 3 · Regulator clock -
Ep 3 · Bencher workshop -
Ep 3 · Skycycle chase -
Ep 3 · Warehouse roof -
Ep 4 · Title card: If I Died Twice -
Ep 4 · Galloper newsboy -
Ep 4 · Riverside hat -
Ep 4 · Giltner showroom -
Ep 4 · Three witnesses -
Ep 4 · River flour clue -
Ep 4 · Civic notice desk -
Ep 4 · Cliffhanger -
Ep 5 · Title card: Wrong Answer -
Ep 5 · Hale interview -
Ep 5 · Evelyn side room -
Ep 5 · Giltner after hours -
Ep 5 · Three witnesses separated -
Ep 5 · Brann’s window -
Ep 5 · Riverside twine -
Ep 5 · Cliffhanger: margin note -
Book 3 · Sasha at the gala -
Book 3 · On the promenade deck -
The sisters · Schoolyard memory