Skycraft
The word 'skycraft' is the English language translation of the widely used calque for vessels of the air. Skycraft were traditionally gliding and self-venting vessels made from exotic woods and fabrics, originally found in the valleys of the Jaggudorns. According to legends of the Sky Tribes, the god Amirulliam taught them how to make these first skycraft which they used at great peril to herd gontha and to migrate to nearby alpine valleys. In the past two hundred years, skycraft has come to include titancraft vessels of sky.
Chronology of Skycraft
- 500 AS: invention, using cembar wood and gontha wool
- 300 AS : increase in size and quantity, Kiallions and allies voyage in late spring westwards over Jaggudorns to Colnoria
- 550 AI: fleeglesilk discovered to produce skysails of the highest strength, durability, and lift. Fleeglesilk production spreads from Siul throughout the Pallathantic
- 850 AI: increase in number of skycraft in Jaggudorns and thus the demand for skycraft
- 1300-1400: skycraft speed and battle-worthiness increases, First Kalikán Empire
- 2500: improved skycraft, New Kalikán Empire
- 2600: titancraft vessels make traditional skycraft obsolescent for warfare and eventually commerce
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