"The flight was quiet and the clouds were calm. We had sailed through them a thousand times. When the deckhand said he saw something, we dismissed him. That was our first but not our last mistake that we would nake on that voyage.
In the end, the poor dockgand who had tried to warn us was hanging from the rigging covered in deep cuts and with an unforgettable look of terror on his face."
It that Shreds
The cloud thresher is a widely-held (skysailor) belief of a creature thats description varies from one telling to another. The common element in all of the tellings is the giant blade-like arms of the creature. Some are more human, some more animal, and others still horrors that almost cannot be described.
The thresher is a creature that will stalk a ship through the clouds for a long time waiting for the right moment to strike. When it does, it steals one member of the crew straight off the deck. Either with clawed feet or by impaling them on one of their bladed arms. It is unknown what the creature eats because the bodies always find their way back to the ship, bruised, cut, and almost unrecognizable.
(Skysailors) have learned to recognize the signs that a thresher may be nearby. First is clouds, they only strike from the clouds but clouds are unavoidable when you're a (skysailor). The second is the silence. Birds and other creatures are afraid of threshers and stay away - that, or the thresher has killed them all.
Dispelling a Myth
For every storyteller, there is a denier. Some may simply refuse to accept that such a horrible, evil creature could. Others may not believe anything without evidence and bodies with cuts and bruises aren't evidence of a creature. Some say that the crews kill the crewmen they do not like and blame it on the thresher. Others that they try to hide accidents and save face for the dead or to the living against their own negligence.
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The Origin of Many Myths
There have been many (skyships) with superstitious crews, all of them even. They create stories and reinforce them. But one ship was the origin of more myths than any other. It still sees new myths despite disappearing over fourty years ago.
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