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SkySHiPS

Within the Cloudtop district lies the Skyport, a
thin tower that climbs along the surrounding wall
onto a massive platform that acts as a raised harbor
for docking skyships. These beautiful airships range
in size, but generally are built to a similar scale as a
coaster merchant ship. Skyships are held aloft and
guided via the levitating power of three or more
enchanted crystals called brumestones installed along
the hull or topside of the ship.
The enchantments required to produce and main-
tain these brumestones is a very closely guarded
secret by the Alsfarin Union within the distant city
of Ank’Harel, and while the Alsfarin Union does
occasionally sell skyships to foreign businesses, they
retain absolute control over the maintenance of and
number of skyships in operation. Reserved for goods
and individuals who require expedient travel without
the hassles of sea-faring dangers, the cost to utilize
a skyship is prohibitively expensive for the common
man, leading to a sense of elitism in those who often
make use of their services. Due to the exclusivity of
skyports within major metropolises, few skyships in
service will deviate from dedicated shipping routes
between major cities.

SkyShip
Purchase Cost: 100,000g • Speed: 10 mph • Max Cargo:
10 tons • Crew: 6-10 • Max Passenger Occupancy: 30
Personal Travel Cost: 2 gp per mile per passenger •
Shipping Cost: 1 gp per 100 lbs per mile.

azalea Street park
Azalea Street is one of Emon’s oldest neighborhoods, and
is full to bursting with small businesses, quaint homes,
and hole-in-the-wall restaurants. Amidst the chaos of
magic lingers enough to create these mindless cinderslag
daily life, Azalea Street is also home to a peaceful park
elementals (see page 130) is a mystery; but it seems to be
overlooking the Ozmit Waterways. When the stress of
limited to the crater, as the elementals cannot go beyond it
constant battles becomes too much to bear, adventurers
without collapsing into inert slurry.
in the know take a moment to visit the Azalea Street
Park and recover, maybe even swapping stories with other
the godSbrawl ring
relaxing heroes. Legend has it that heroes who meditate
Though the Temple of the Stormlord always has a fighting
among the flowers and drink in the sea air return invig-
ring in its center, the annual Godsbrawl transforms the
orated by the spirit of the Wildmother. A dual statue of
earthen, torch-lit sanctum into one of Tal’Dorei’s most
the Wildmother and Lawbearer dancing stands within a
unusual tournament grounds. On the Day of Challeng-
fountain in the center of the park. Once per week, a char-
ing, the Stormbringer’s holy day, the athletic priests of
acter who takes a short rest within the Azalea Street Park
the Stormlord invite warriors and worshipers of the entire
gains Inspiration.
pantheon to the Godsbrawl, asking that each temple offer
forth their greatest warrior to act as their god’s proxy in
thordak’S crater
the tournament. The clergy of the Dawnfather and the
The very center of the Cloudtop District, despite resto- Lawbearer send their champions, but rarely take it seri-
ration crews’ best efforts, remains a smoldering ruin, home ously, for they scorn the storm-priests’ notion of “might
only to rubble and molten slag, still supernaturally hot makes right.” Conversely, the champions of the Storm-
from Thordak’s fiery corruption. Whenever a restoration lord and the Platinum Dragon have a fierce—though
crew enters the crater, the pools of slag and cinder rise friendly—rivalry, trading the title of Supreme Champion
to life, repulsing all living creatures. Why the Thordak’s back and forth each year after a bloody final round.
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