Airship
Through storm it flies like a swift swallow, swooshes up and down, dancing in the wind like a madman, untamed. Thunder rumbles, invisible beast in the clouds below, bellowing, roaring, hungrily reaching for our fair vessel. The hull shakes, the boards creak, we dive down, then up, fighting against the gusts, but then, suddenly, silence. Above the clouds; Sun, brighter than the circlet of the Goddess. Alas, we are saved.
-A small eulogy written by the Captain of The Ruby Swallow in the logbook after a severe thunderstorm near The Old Sea.
The airships in Altaros are rather new addition. After The Turbulence happened a new need for transportation rose, when magic was unusable -or at least very risky and unreliable-mean to travel. Continents had shifted, places that once were were no more and new islands and countries had grown from the ashes, and people slowly became to live again instead of just surviving.
It was perhaps the dwarves who first found and researched the magical abilities of a certain glowing mineral deep in their mines. Thus, it's only logical that the dwarves were, as practical as they usually are, the first one to make a magical engine out of the stone, too. And those engines were bettered for a long time, until the dwarves were happy, especially certain crazy ones in The Skyfleet, and put the engines in good use and began to build airships, aspiring soaring the skies.
Many dwarves as traditionalists were against such a silly idea of a dwarf flying ("If Gods expected us to fly, they would have given us wings!"), but some adventurous and brilliant minds proved them wrong while employed by The Skyfleet. This is why the best skyship engineers are dwarves. It is rare,but not unheard of a ship to be build without any connections to The Skyfleet. Some independent thinkers have gone rogue on the matter just quite recently...
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