Themes in MNEMOS

Mnemos is a world of gothic wonder and retro futurism built around the era and aesthetic imagined by literary pioneers Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, and Aleister Crowley in an aesthetic often generalized as ‘Steampunk’. It ties together fictional and real-world elements of the Gothic and Victorian Eras, from the Wild West to the perils of industrialization to the hidden mysteries of the past and the wondrous future of speculative science and the supernatural.

Themes in Mnemos range from high adventure and discovery to creeping fear of the unknown and the danger of scarcity in a world in the midst of an industrial renaissance. Wonder versus danger, risk versus reward, and competition versus community are all part of the world of Mnemos.

While themes in Mnemos may conjure parallels from Earth’s history, it is important to bear in mind that Mnemos is NOT Earth. Concepts common in Earth based Steampunk genre - like Slavery and Imperialism - are not part of the world of Mnemos. While the history of this world has its own failings and there has been conflict amongst its people, it has been only through perseverance and community that the people of Mnemos have survived.