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Abulaffa is a flowering berry plant found on the Island of Esskay, which has several intriguing qualities.
The berries of the abulaffa serve as an aphrodisiac for female mammals, and furthermore...
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Arbol is a silver mining colony of the Colronan Kingdom.
This Minor Island is arid, boring, mountainous, and dull. The only element of value in it is the ribbon of...
Few topics fire the imagination or the soul as that of the Arcane. Herein are a few snippets of fact, fancy, and rumor about the mystical mysteries of the World.
Other Gifts
Baku...
The ability to take the fight to one's enemies (and defend oneself from an enemy's assault) is a key one for those who travel the 7 Skies.
Here is a brief introduction to some of the more obscure...
The Barathi Floating Fortress they dubbed “Astramorte” was a joke. Someone in the Empire, thinking himself a military engineer, constructed a vast castle out of stone and bluewood, chinked with...
Detailed information on Avokatos can be found in S7S, p. 30 and p. 144.
The intricacies of morgani contracts have bred an special type of lawyer/arbitrator who specializes in arranging,...
Viridese ambassador to the Colronan Kingdom. Savvy, aged but powerful Warmaster; long gray braids, tattoos. Trying to get an alliance with King Gyorg against Barathi.
What she wants:
To secure all...
"People with the Gift of the Baku tend to be otherworldly, seeming to live their life in a daze, daydreaming or seeing things no one else does. More common long ago, their numbers have dwindled as...
Rumors from ships flying through the Sky of Stones tell of a curious substance known as Ballast Mud.
Smelling like a mixture of clay and acetone, this sticky, heavy substance is reported to negate...
Detailed information on Barathi can be found in S7S, p. 27-34.
Travelers' Comments on Barathi
Cividad Arachnos
The Middle Levels
The Drunken Lobster is a fine tavern. The best ale you'll find...
This is a Hidden Gift (only Koldun may learn this Gift)
"The Gift of the Barghest allows a person power over the dead and undead. Some of the abilities it gives make the practitioner an accepted,...
A decade ago, "Baroness" Karlinda arrived on Crail, in the Great City of Azul Agua. None can say for sure from whence she came — rumor tags her as a disgraced Zultanista Houzi, a minor noble of...
Fashionable socialite, stunningly beautiful and very savvy, loves a good scandal and a good dalliance. Everyone useful or important in Vosquindon attends her balls.
What she wants:
To be the...
Black Wine is about the most potent drink you can get in the 7 Skies, outside, of course, the rarest of Colronan Brandy (I recommend Chizhen Fields, if you have a choice). Made from the fermented...
The site of a horrible battle, centuries ago.
That's the short form.
The long description is worse.
Nearly every cloud-island (Major or Minor) sent warriors here. The conflict was initially about...
This island is a rough-hewn Colronan Royalist military outpost (under another name) … or a recreational haven for the people of Sha-Ka-Ruq.
Depends on who you ask and where you are.
What the...
Extant information on Captain Alexei Rostand can be found in S7S, p. 297.
Alexei's Contributions to the Atlas
A Narrow Escape
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Captain Deligur Durand is the current skipper of the Crailese skyship Runespringer. Though a trader and skysailor of moderate ability, he is far from moderate in his consumption of hard liquors,...
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Captain Froederik Wiki has sailed the 7 Skies for thirty years, man and boy, and has seen more than many island lubbers credit could be possible. To that end, he has begun...
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This aetheric document is a collection of descriptions of the lesser-known Cloud-Islands, cultures, nations, peoples, and creatures of the World of the 7 Skies, collected from...
Bobbing like feathers upon the winds of the Dome of the Heavens, Cloud-Islands float above The Mysterious Blue. Cloud-Islands maintain their positions in the Dome by unknown means, as the 7 Skies...
Detailed information on Colrona can be found in S7S, p. 42-55.
Travelers' Comments on Colrona (in general)
While this island produces great soldiers, I cannot see for the life of me why. They...
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The main forces of our respective armies had moved off to the south. My regiment remained at the Haiduk Aqueduct, ostensibly to hold it, but really because the Zultanista regiment across the field...
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If you see a link in the Atlas that goes to a non-existent page — an Island, a faction, whatever — that's not a mistake. That's a message — to you — that we want you to write...
Detailed information on Crail can be found in S7S, p. 57-64.
Travelers' Comments on Crail
Deucedly clever place to go on a long-leave, or luckily be stationed for ambassadorial duty. Just...
"A skill much sought after in the 7 Skies (at least amongst those who know or speculate upon its existence), the Gift of the Cyclopes allows sensing, shaping, hardening, softening and maintaining...
"Getting out of Agua Azul? Sure, just cut across the current to Fulma Harbor, where the fog is finally thick enough to lift bluewood, navigate through the Prossor Hills, and straight east from...
Crailese consulate trade attaché. Wears a stylish cape, has impeccable manners, a bit stiff. Ostensibly negotiating for support to the Kingdom in the expected war with the Zultanate, but not...
The Drunken Lobster is located in the Middle Levels of Cividad Arachnos on Barathi.
Many consider it the place you can find the best ale on Barathi.
The Drunken Lobster is essentially one gigantic...
I had become embroiled in a duel with Baron Estevan Theodoreson over a woman of high birth who enjoyed both of our acquaintances. The Baron had the temerity to aver that his passion for my mistress...
Long ago — longer than any of you here have been alive — I watched the island of Dumaz vanish beneath the Blue. It had been a small island, colonized by the Barathi and covered with vineyards....
Duro Xaa is an explorer from Sha-Ka-Ruq that is always seeking the next big mystery. He may be getting on in years, but if he notices it, he doesn't let it show.
Duro Xaa's Contributions to the...
Extant information on duzha crystals can be found in S7S, p. 82.
Duzha crystals are found throughout the World. Some of the largest deposits known were found on Lost Kroy. Currently, F'chmelch...
Some of the best eating in the World comes from the oddest corners.
Here are listed some of the delicacies of the 7 Skies.
Eating-relevant Entries
Abulaffa
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Icosapus
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More colloquially known as "the Fly," the Ebon Dragonfly was once a noted courier vessel, travelling the lanes of commerce until it was bought as a pleasure yacht by the Tanyani Family of the...
Said to roam the Mists, Empyrean Wolves are, individually, little threat. However, in a pack, they are extremely dangerous to cross.
An Empyrean Wolf is a bit of mist or cloud that has learned how...
A large skyship, operating as a merchant vessel on the Colrona - Barathi - Crail route. It usually flies the standard of the Zultanate.
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(Esskay blazon)
Known as "the Island of Pleasure" amongst experienced travelers, Esskay has a delightful climate, beautiful vistas, unique (and beautiful) flora and fauna, and soliticious...
This is a Hidden Gift (only Koldun may learn this Gift)
"The Gift of Faerie is named for the legendary deceptive lords of illusion. Koldun with this gift are often tricky and in fact the gift...
There are many famous skysailing vessels and fortressess in the Great Sky. Here are a few of them:
The Blood-Oath
Citadel Viblieu
The Endeavor
The Ebon Dragonfly
The Leatherwing
Onofrio Manor
The...
Extant information on F’chmelch can be found in S7S, p. 78.
The name of this island is pronounced “fishmilk.”
What F’chmelch Is Like
A small cloud-island, low in the Dome and close to...
She looked at me, but it was not fear in her eyes, it was anger. Anger at someone in her private chambers.
I felt the witch attempt to use her sorcery upon me, upon my mind. But Vaoz has blessed me...
While compiling this Atlas, Captain Wiki has made (or been presented with) many strange entries that do not easily fit within the usual categories.
Herein is the hodgepodge:
Black Wine
The Granite...
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Gamesh is a sizable Island, mostly wild, in the Widder Low layer of the Dome of the Heavens, located between Sha Ka Ruq and Barathi. Breadfruit, cocoanuts, bananas, and mangos are...
An Ilwuzi pirate, born and bred (though he claims his family is of Kroyu descent), Garrick Farnsworthy has served under no less than three Dread Pirate Captains, most often as bosun. He has...
Ghost Sky Taboos
There are many superstitions surrounding the Ghost Sky and its spectral residents. Here is a short collection of such…
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Gliding mice are small rodents — usually found in the Jungle Sky — that have a small flap of skin between their fore- and rear legs. They use these flaps to glide on the winds for short...
Extant information on Gold-Eyed Niko can be found in S7S, p. 297.
Niko's Contributions to the Atlas
The Sinking of Dumaz
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Gossip, rumor, myth, legend, and other stories are a vast part of the World.
How much fact can be found within these tales?
Rumors
Most of these tales come without attribution, so beware!
General...
History
Was stolen from the Kroyu by Murgen during the First Barathi-Kroyu War. Led to the discovery of F’chmelch, and the founding of the koldun Fraternity.
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Heartsblood Lobsters haunt the seas of Barathi, especually in the northern seas of that Island.
A large, intelligent invertebrate with a deep, rich crimson exoskeleton and eight jointed legs (the...
Extant information on Hekuba can be found in S7S, p. 78.
What Hekuba Is Like
A small cloud-island, in the Deasil High Layer and near to the Edge of the World, Hekuba is a small, very flat,...
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The Hunn-dann is a mystery creature, much feared by the Sha-Ku.
According to legend, it is made up of "the head of an lemur, the body of a boar, the horns of the orix, the tail of the peacock, and...
The icosapus is a rarely-seen skygoing invertebrate, much like a sea-going octopus, with twenty tenacles. Most reports place them within the Mists. They apparently prey upon empryean wolves and...
Detailed information on Ilwuz can be found in S7S, p. 64-70.
Travelers' Comments on Ilwuz
A trash heap of an Island.
— "Baroness" Karlinda
Politically, it is the glory of the 7 Skies.
— The...
Jalizza Root is found only on the minor Island of Turotana.
After the plant is harvested, the root is removed from the stem and leaves. These latter are thrown away or fed to livestock. The roots...
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Some are good. Most are bad. But there are often uncomfortable truths found in the jokes that skysailors make. Here is a selection of the humour found in the 7 Skies.
Barathi
What do you call a...
By concentrating, a person with the Kappa's Gift can sense water (through dowsing), purify foul water into clean, cause water to move to his will, convert water into other liquids (or other liquids...
Kellani is a type of clay, found only on Sha Ka Ruq, that — when fired — produces a translucent green porcelain.
It is much used in the creation of tzushen.
Currently, Kellani porcelian is...
Kitsune are lucky people. Fortune generally favors them and they show up at some of the most unusual and opportune times. Many who have the Gift of the Kitsune see themselves as agents of Vaoz or a...
"There are rumors of people possessing the ability to commune with earth. They are known to be incredibly strong and durable, and can make the very grounds underneath them quake. Instead of making...
Koldun have an informal, cryptic social Fraternity with other koldun. While not an official organization, nearly all koldun assent to “professional courtesy” between themselves.
There is much...
Detailed information on Lost Kroy can be found in S7S, p. 56.
Kroyu Artifacts & Ruins
The Granite Skull
The King's Habaku
The Leatherwing.
Silverpoint
Travelers' Comments on...
The Leatherwing is a skyship that flies the standard of Lost Kroy. Intriguingly, it is said to be of a Kroyu design.
It is unknown if this ship is some sort of ghost ship, an old wrack discovered...
Extant information on Leftenant Victor Armandson, King’s Musketeer, Knight of Grande Dellaluna can be found in S7S, p. 288.
Victor's Contributions to the Atlas
Duel, Interrupted
A Contest of...
Livia Petro is a Scion of the Barathi Noble House of Petro of high rank and wealth. Tall, thin, with sharp features, brown eyes, and long black hair (usually worn in a single braid), she is a...
The League of Lost Penstari is a Molnari overarching confederation of smaller fraternities, all associated with a fallen Barathi Noble House. Any individual that can claim an association with a...
Barathi ambassador to the Colronan Kingdom (and handler for any Imperial Spider assigned to Vosquindon). Urbane, refined, but no-nonsense fifty-something. She couches her thoughts in pleasant form,...
"Minotaurs exist in a state of mystery and have an easier time understanding and concealing mysteries. The Gift of the Minotaur makes one who possesses it more difficult to "read" by others. Their...
Extant information on Molnar can be found in S7S, p. 78.
Molnar is a Barathi farming colony.
What Molnar Is Like
Floating in an oval sea (the Elliptic Ocean), the land of the small island of...
These Sha Ka Ruq avians are rarely seen, despite being daylight hunters.
It appears that these birds — a species of owl, the sages claim — have an uncanny, mystical ability to cloak their...
Once known as the Diva of the Ruq, Nalsa Motu was a Gifted of the Siren respected among the Sha-ku not only for the fame of her singing, but by her song's ability to tame even the wildest of ruqs...
The Blue Hawk was closing on us, full of Barathi cannon, sailors, and wingmen who’d like nothing better than to send us screaming down to the Blue in return for the last few months we’d been...
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Map of Arbol
This is a map of the Colronan Royalist mining colony of Arbol.
The only points of...
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Leftenant Victor Armandson, King’s Musketeer, Knight of Grande Dellaluna
The Blue Skull, Ilwuzi...
Fashionable Virtutoir and secret Zultanate agent. Appears demure, helpful, and generous – and of course the very poster child of honour. Handler for other secret Zultanate agents. Why is this...
Porto Fino is a small Island in the Deasil Low layer of the Dome of the Heavens, located a few days' travel from Sha Ka Ruq and fairly close to the Sky of Fire. Porto Fino is a Royalist Colronan...
Puuva is a soft blue-black stone, very porous. It is often found near volcanoes. Some scholars maintain that puuva is created from the interaction of lava and the Mysterious Blue, though alchemists...
Radu's Microraptor, also known as the lesser spotted chicken lizard, thesaurus, or the dread lizard (alchemically known as Microraptorus radui).
A small squirrel-sized lizard, known for its curious...
Extant information on Ram Snakemind can be found in S7S, p. 293.
Ram's Contributions to the Atlas
Astramorte
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As the World is vast, there are multidudes of creatures that live within it. Here can be found descriptions of the beasts that roam the various corners of the World.
Empyrean Wolves
Gliding...
Abulaffa
Beedenweed
Jalizza Root
Maas Moss
Urga-Ta-Van
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Ballast Mud
Duzha Crystals
Fire Pearls
Kellani
Night Iron
Puuva
Xi-Chan-Hu
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Red Lizabek of the Songs is a Barathi koldun. While it is known that she was born of a Noble House (but which particular House is unclear), she turned her back upon Barathi politics to pursue her...
Church Rituals
The Church's Largesse: If a parish priest is a brewer or vintner, once a year, they are expected to offer the beverages they produce as a sacrifice to Vaoz. This means, of course,...
The Broken Wheel
Cabda Vu Zoha
The Drunken Lobster
Dead Man's Falls
The Lusty Vulture
The Silver Tentacles
The Lazlo Tubaro Statue
The Harbors of the Night
Stonemasons' Cave
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Detailed information on rockmen can be found in S7S, p. 16-17.
While the rockmen are rarely seen, one group of travelers having sailed through the Sky of Stones reports having come across a...
This small tri-hulled skyship is known mainly for its unusual rigging and speed. While currently flying under a Crail standard, it was orginally built in Ilwuz and breifly served the Brethren of...
Extant information on Sandman Rahimat can be found in S7S, p. 291.
Rahimat's Contributions to the Atlas
Fear. Finally.
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"The Gift of the Shade is one that often causes an unreasonable amount of fear in the general population, considering its uses. Shades have mastery of darkness and shadow, which gives them a bad...
While finishing up the final compilation of his notes for the Atlas, Captain Wiki was prone to taking late night rambles around the region of Viridia in which he was residing at the time. One...
Detailed information on Sha Ka Ruq can be found in S7S, p. 71-77.
Travelers' Comments on Sha Ka Ruq
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Sigur Stormeye is a Virdiese Warmaster and Corsair who possesses the Gift of the Griffin. He eschews swords or other weapons for a pair of gigantic cesti (gauntlets that cover his hands and arms up...
Though ninety-seven years of age, Sir Alexandre Hopitini's mind is as sharp as the edge of his saber.
A Captain of the Colronan Musketeers (retired), Sir Alexandre travelled extensively throughout...
Scholars believe that the Siren's Gift is usually unrecognized on the Major Cloud-Islands because the knowing combination of Giftedness and musical talent is rare.
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Skysailing lore is a body of knowledge dealing with travelling the 7 Skies safely. Some of it is mundane and some of it is arcane. It is usually orally transmitted between skysailors.
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Sphynx are the consumate experts. They tend toward scholarly and mystery seeking personalities whether they become a koldun or not. Those with the Gift of the Sphynx have an uncanny ability to see...
The members of the Cult of the Star-Kraken may appear to be in league with their more romantic sister sect, the Lovers of the Sun and Moon, but the Koldun of this sect house far darker ambitions...
Lazlo Tubaro was a Barathi ne'er-do-well.
Somehow, he became the Patriarch of his own House.
The deeds are cloaked, the deals disavowed, the history tainted… but the fact is, at the end of the...
Stirge are a secretive sort, and with good reason. Their abilities center around blood and at best this engenders little trust, while at worst it ends in violence. For this reason, those with the...
The Students of the Skies Society is a community of Alchemists and Scholars dedicated to amassing a knowledge of the Natural Philosophy of the Skies. In essence their task is to apply the Seven...
"To one with the Gift of the Tengu, plants are their friend. Plants do not impede their way when they walk and they intuitively know where plants are in their immediate vicinity. Tengu have no...
The 7 Skies all have differing natures, and they rotate counter-clockwise around the World. Each brings — in part or in whole — a season to the Cloud-Islands of the World, which float in their...
The Mysterious Blue is mysterious. And blue. And it makes up the base of the World.
Detailed information on the Blue can be found in S7S, p. XX-YY.
Travelers' Comments on the Blue
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On Viridia, a monstrous creature known as "the Varlok Fek" is said to haunt the highlands near Moonhammer Freehold. It is said to be hundreds of feet tall, with strange powers:
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Within the Dome of the Heavens, Cloud-Islands float over the Mysterious Blue as the 7 Skies rotate and swirl.
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Turtotana is a small Island in the Deasil High layer of the Dome of the Heavens, located between Colrona and Sha Ka Ruq.
Its native population is known for being laconic. They are...
Detailed information on Viridia can be found in S7S, p. 34-41.
Travelers' Comments on Viridia
Those Viridiese Warmasters are very devils in a fight. Dashedly ingenious, wot?
— Sir Alexandre...
Warren the Hapless is a middle-aged gentleman living in the city of Quespy on Sha-Ka-Ruq. He makes his living at a tavern, where he tends bar and tells stories of 'the trail of his...
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