Skylands

Skylands

Your premier "cozy" setting of adventure and whimsical fun. First conceived of on April 29th 2013 in the /tg/ thread "A Slice of Life: Living in a sky world," it tickled the fancy of many elegan/tg/entlemen and has evolved into a setting of it's own.

Physical Properties

The Skylands exist as a large group of floating islands in an endless sky. Most races live at what is about sea level in our world in terms of pressure and climate. The farther down you go into skyland, the more dark and dangerous things become, filled with adventure and mystery. There is no "bottom" of skyworld as we may think of it, but instead some kind of mystical core that causes the islands to stay flying due to wooby-wooby magic. The orbits of islands around this core follow a general prescribed path that can be mapped, and generally do not stray from it.

Races of the Skylands

Humans: Your average stock humans that inhabit the temperate world. Most belong to the Justaerin Empire, a pseudo-greek/roman empire that incorporates most of the civilized planets. The Emperor of the Justaerin Empire is not a cruel man, and rules justly, provided his citizens are law abiding.

Maotai: A race of giant Manta Ray people that soar the upper skies whose culture is loosely based off of the Maori people of earth. They are generally not trusted by the other races for their nomadic tendencies, and for living so high above everyone else.

Aven: Incorporating the many subraces including Eagles, Owls, Cranes, Rooks, and the reviled Gulls, the time of the Avens as a race has passed, and they often keep to themselves. The different breeds of Aven meet in a so called 'council of four wings,' with the exclusion of the Gulls.

The Rook subrace can be described best as your eccentric uncle. The one who's a lot of fun in small doses, but you wouldn't want to introduce to your friends lest he embarrass you. They see value in accruing the largest horde of baubles possible in a lifetime, and are quite crafty.

Deep Race: It is generally accepted that there should be a race that dwells beneath the other islands, in a place of eternal twilight and dusk, but no one has as of yet agreed whether they should be ants, mushrooms, worms, or dwarf people with the odd badger man thrown in.