Aeschernon

For millennia, humankind had documented a strange object in the sky, known by many names. "The Flying Island", "The Sky's Comet", "Luna Minor",—these names for centuries have been captured in writings, paintings, songs and mythos, yet have not been visited...   Until recently.   While the flying landmass had been regarded across many cultures in much of the middle ages as an omen and a scourge of the Earth, it wasn't until the great Anduetch Rennaissance artist, philosopher, thinker and inventor, Johann Zimmermann proposed a way to reach the island. In his work, The Flying Land of Aeschernon (AD 1412), he states, "We have known that men ever since the creation of such optics have observed the birds reach the land of Aeschernon and nest in the branches of its forests." In his later work, To Imitate the Birds (AD 1424), he notes "In observation, the feathers of the bird bear the property, that when it moves laterally through the air, it is lifted toward the heavens" and "The entire bird, with its peculiar arrangement of feathers allows it to fly", and came to the conclusion later in the same work, "[...] because the bird may fly using the feather's properties afforded it without its control, humans also might be able to employ these very same properties."   Zimmermann's statements rocked the world. In his books, he included sketches and blueprints of primitive airplanes, gliders and lifting balloons that could be used by people to ascend to the skies. Two centuries later, on 6 May 1634, the Litoretic inventor Giovanni Lombardi built glider prototypes that could glide 700 feet laterally from a hill rising 100 feet into the plain below. On 5 June 1708, Anglic (Ethnicity) inventor Charles Northrop built a hot-air balloon that could ascend high into the air. On 12 June 1764, a Anglic settlers landed on Aeschernon and became to colonize it.   Thousands of writings from antiquity to present day describe the island as causing supernatural events or altering nature as it comes close to that point on the earth. These events range from strange weather to magnetic anomalies to instantaneous combustion. The colony on 22 October 1796 discovered the source of what created these anomalies and the reason why the island floats in the first place—a huge stone at the center of the island.