The 12 steampunk archetypes are strings that connect fantasy metaverses together through ideas, patterns and personal traits. They interact with you, with each other and the world to create new characters, avatars, stories and fantasies. They are agents of narrative, units of storytelling, and inspiration to worlds of 19th-century societies dominated by steam-powered technology. They are the symbolic of the creation of the steampunk metaverse. Who I am, you ask? Well, I am their storyteller. Make them your own. The clock is ticking...