An airship is a flying bastion, able to carry crew, passengers, and supplies on long voyages. Many airships are well-appointed or even opulent, as such a vessel requires a massive investment.

Skysailors, also known as aeronauts, perform the same basic duties on airships as sailors do on mundane ones, such as raising sails, keeping watch, and cleaning decks, as well as airship-specific duties such as maintaining the flight-enabling mechanics or magics of the craft.

With a deck just over 80 feet in length and 20 feet wide, the Zephyr is a beautiful rosewood ship hanging by ropes and chains from a massive canvas balloon framed with wooden ribs. Within the balloon a massive air elemental enjoys their time raising, or lowering, or racing the airship to and fro at the whims of Captain Talune.

Those who ply the skies above many worlds travel further and longer than most, some even bringing their families aboard. Passing over not only vast seas, but forests, vales, and deserts just as vast—and just as unforgiving for those who fall. You were born into a life as unforgiving as the plummet.

Characters raised in the airship pirate culture share a variety of traits in common with one another.

Aeronauts are folk who ply the skies aboard airships of every description. Much as a sailor, an aeronaut must be quite familiar with their vessel, skilled with every role from pilot to navigator to engineer to ensure the ship gets from port to port in one piece.

What skip did you fly with? Was it a dirigible or did it have wings or rotors? Were you a deckhand, officer, or the captain of your ship?

Keepers of the land inhabit ancient territories where crowded settlements and large-scale agriculture have not yet taken a foothold. These can be very different locations, like large swathes of grassland, cave systems deep underground, or thick and unexplored jungles, but they all share the same characteristic: a sense of an ancient, almost forgotten history that permeates through every corner.

Oxfolk are a tall, bovine-esque people with large, curving horns. Many have longer hair on their heads and about their shoulders and most have furry coats, the length and texture of which varies with the seasons, the climate they hail from, and their lineage. This fur is largely similar to that seen on oxen and domesticated cattle, with bands, splotches, and solid colors being equally common, though some might look more akin to bison, water buffalo, or yaks

At the Narrator’s discretion, you may be able to benefit from the following new mechanics.

Some adventurers hang up their swords and put away their spellbooks, only to find that they have to take them up again. This may be a story of fulfilling one’s true potential, achieving a glory always longed for, or even one of redemption and penance for a past life of violence or treachery.

You have done what few have managed: you have aged gracefully out of adventuring. Maybe exhaustion overtook you, maybe you had accomplished all you had dreamed. Whatever happened, you have done exceedingly little since then. Maybe you drank yourself into darkness each night, or maybe you’ve been content to just watch the flowers glow on a small plot of land you’ve bought yourself.

What pulled you back into a life of adventure? Do you want to go back to retirement? What drives you, and what beckons you to stop?