Editing Airship (section)

==[[Eberron]]==
Eberron’s airships take elements of both types, with the aesthetics of high fantasy airships (befitting of Eberron’s possessing “wide magic” to the point it’s a science), but serving much the same role as an urban fantasy airship (befitting of Eberron’s interwar influences). Constructed of soarwood, a “naturally” lighter than air wood, and propelled by a bound elemental, they were created during the last part of the Last War (less than 10 years before the standard starting point) by House Lyrandar with the aid of Zilargo’s elemental binders. The bound elemental requires the captain have the [[Dragonmark|Mark of Storm]], which almost entirely limits them to being controlled by Lyrandar, and while foundlings and excoriates exist, they’re still built exclusively by Lyrandar.

The existence of airships is quite a concern to House Orien, as it threatens their monopoly on travel that their Mark of Passage has ensured them till relatively recently. To deal with this, they’ve been making greater research into reducing the cost of teleporation and making airships that don’t require elemental binding (or, at least, will work for the Mark of Passage like the Lightning Rail does). An obscure web-article actually confirms the possibility of making airships that will work for anyone, as it includes one that is an artifact of the long lost [[Giant]] civilization.