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LYRANDAR GALLEONS per hour. The elemental appears as a ring of lightning
encircling the crew cart while the train is in motion. A
A House Lyrandar galleon, also called an elemental bound air elemental can move a train of up to ten carts
galleon, resembles a Lyrandar airship except that it has without obvious strain, and most trains are configured
a water elemental ring that propels it across oceans and accordingly.
seas instead of through the air. This vessel has a speed The other carts that make up the train have various
of 10 miles per hour but otherwise is similar to a Lyran­ purposes. A typical train has a crew cart at each end,
dar airship. with two cargo carts, four passenger carts, and two
lounge carts in between. Doors at both ends of each cart
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0 R I E N LIGHT I N G RAIL enable crew and passengers to walk from one to the
The wondrous lightning rail system once linked the next, even while the train is in motion. Both crew carts
far reaches of the Kingdom of Galifar, prior to the Last are identical, except that the bound elemental in one is
War. Now the system is divided, split into eastern and suppressed. On the return trip, the roles of the carts and
western circuits. Reestablishing the conductor stone the states of their elementals are reversed.
paths across Scions Sound and the Mournland is often Specialized carts of other sorts vary in configuration
discussed in the halls of power in the Five Nations, but depending on their purpose and the degree of luxury
formidable challenges are involved. afforded to them. Some have solid sides and roofs, while
others are covered only with canvas.
How IT WORKS Map 4.10 shows the different carts that comprise most
A lightning rail train is made up of an elemental vessel lightning rail trains.
linked to a series of connected carts, all of which float Operation. The vessel's pilot, a House Orien dragon­
about 5 feet off the ground. Each cart, similar in form marked heir, stands at the helm, high atop the crew cart,
to a large wagon with no wheels, has a conductor stone beneath the elemental binding struts. The pilot controls
embedded in its underside. A corresponding set of con­ the elemental and communicates with it during the trip,
ductor stones laid out in a line on the ground interacts watching the path ahead through broad windows that
with the stones in the carts to form a rail for the train to encircle the helm platform.
follow. Lightning arcs between the two sets of stones,
accounting for the system's name.
The elemental vessel at the front of the train, called
a crew cart, holds a bound air elemental that propels
the train along its route at a speed of about 30 miles

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