Savroth Yymir

Savroth Yymir was a golden dragonborn who lived during the Settlement Era. Born in the year 85 on the island of Regalia, Savroth was a technological prodigy, who started tinkering with metal and gears at a very young age. This prodigy of artifice took an interest in airship design and took part in the Hardstone expedition to Ishiri in the year 102, where he was the only dragonborn alongside a group of gnomes and dwarves. Named after the expedition leader and Savroth's master, Arling Hardstone, a dwarven woman, the vast crystal reserves of Ishiri were discovered on this expedition. The expedition was successful in mapping parts of Ishiri and gathering high-quality floatstone crystals, which on their return to Regalia in 105 led to the creation of the first crystal-infused airship engine: the first aero core.

The Father of Modern Airships:

Savroth continued making inventions, and over the next decade led teams responsible for the creation of the omni-directional navigation spheres that allowed for finer control of airships, the refining of floatstone into the high-quality fuel known as aether, the internal electrum piping that improved aero core performance, and finally the propeller converters that allowed for faster travel. His greatest achievement was the culmination and extension of all of his earlier projects, which ultimately led to the invention of the Yymir-class airship, which to this day remains the largest airship in the sky. While Savroth never revealed the design specifications for his Yymir-class vessels, he created smaller and more manageable designs which he distributed to every empire at the time.
While he distributed these designs to the empires, he rallied his workers and friends around him to build the hulls of his Yymir-class ships, and in the year 128 the first two vessels took to the sky, which through a unique engine only Savroth knew how to make, the eternal core, meant these ships never needed to land. Three more Yymir class ships would be built, one in 134 and another in 139. With four ships in the sky, Savroth's crews realized that they transmitted this power to the air around them, which meant these Yymir-class ships could keep a certain amount of ships around them fueled and running constantly. A fifth and final Yymir-class vessel would take off in 150, built in the sky through the positioning of the other ships and the uses of other ships that had joined this eternally flying fleet. With the in-air construction of this last vessel, Savroth declared the assembly of ships that had built up around his ships the Floatilla, and thus the great fleet was formed and has stayed in the sky ever since.

Death and Legacy:

Savroth died in the year 159 after establishing Floatilla. The schematics for the Yymir-class vessel and the secrets of the eternal core died with him, and no resident of Floatilla would risk digging into the core to see how it functions at the risk of losing the entire ship. As Savroth was an outcast in his childhood, Floatilla became a place to welcome the outcast and the exiled, as well as those who wanted to break away from the restraints of empire and society. His name is still known, especially on Regalia and Floatilla