Der Funke unter Ypern

A rogue Tesla weapon in the trenches of Great War Dieselpunk story

This alternate history World War I story plunges readers into the rain-soaked hell of Ypres, where the rules of war are shifting—and not for the better. Beneath the chaos of collapsing trenches and poisoned skies, something new is moving through the mud. Not a machine of gears or firepower, but a weapon built from voltage, resonance, and the dangerous dreams of men who’ve never seen a battlefield.

At the center of the storm is Max Eberlein, a German sapper trained to shape the earth, not command the forces that now arc across it. When Tesla-born tech is deployed at the front, it brings not triumph but dread—a flicker of power that does not recognize allegiance or mercy. What begins as an operation turns into a reckoning, and Max must confront the line between loyalty and survival, between invention and monstrosity.

This is a Dieselpunk war story grounded in blood, betrayal, and the slow corrosion of certainty. No heroism here—only choices made in the dark, with lightning licking the wire and orders that never arrived in time.

The lines are drawn in copper and mud. The storm is gathering—step into the shadows now.