Skyland



The world of Skyland is set upon a strange world of floating islands and continents over a endless blue void, “oceans” of clouds often form in between the many floating landmasses; at the center of the “known” world a massive tower of well carved stone raises high above the landscape and atop this very tower lays the biggest and busiest city of the world Hightower.

Hightower is built around an ancient temple that supposedly holds the only entrance into the massive tower below; the city now fills the entire surface of the top of the tower with massive ports for Airships and Cloudships all over its edge, it is also home to the Pegasus Guard, their rivals the Hippogryph Guard, the Overdrive Mercantile Consort, and the Skyfall University among many other prestigious associations in the city.

Exploring Skylands
The explorers of the world set out in either the cheap but somewhat limited Cloudship or the far more expensive but versatile Airships. Cloudships tend to look like galleons and other sort of sailing vessels and get their name from the fact that they can only sail on clouds, many Cloudships have been moored into a small spot of clouds as all the others around them dissipate and are forced to remain in place until new ones link with the one they are on; Airships on the other hand often take the shape of birds or fishes and hold no such limitations they are able to sail freely into the cloudless sky and thus are far more potent.

Taking advantage of the shifting clouds and the unexplored floating islands many bands of pirates roam the skies freely, attacking explorers, passenger ships and trading vessels alike; as if the moody clouds and wild beasts roaming the skies weren’t danger enough.

Places of Mystery and Wonder
There are a few places that stick out from the rest of Skyland.