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The Perfumed Skies of Aero-Vale

# Magitech# Aerial# Wilderness

The floating archipelago of Aero-Vale is choked by a perpetual, sweet-smelling smog—the 'Perfumed Wind-Oil' that fuels its society of winged giants, the Aether-Bladders. When the ore-hauling steam airship 'The Brass Zephyr' crashes on the remote isle of Ignis, its co-pilot, a desperate human, claims the 'Bladder-Giants' pecked the ship to shreds for its cargo. The ruling Aether-Bladders call it a tragic accident caused by the co-pilot's faulty, illicitly-crafted oil. The truth is lost in the clouds. Veteran players must navigate the toxic fumes of corporate conspiracy and genuine monstrous survival to uncover the real cause of the crash, a decision that will determine the fate of two desperate peoples.

Chronicle Prelude

The bustling, vertical port-city of Cogsworth Prime, built into the side of a colossal spire, its air thick with the cloying, sweet scent of refined Perfumed Wind-Oil. Airships of all sizes dock at precarious gantries, and the Aether-Bladders, towering avian giants with steam-vent gills, oversee the loading of cargo.

Environmental Traits

The Perfumed Wind-Oil, a byproduct of the Aether-Bladders' unique biology, is both the region's lifeblood and a creeping poison. Its over-refinement has destabilized the local climate, creating violent 'Gust-Shears' and thickening the smog, threatening to bring the entire sky-archipelago crashing down.

Legendary Archetypes

Rayan

HP:45

STR:16

WIS: 12

CHA:11

Key Factions & Autonomous Nodes (8)

Chief Aerimus
An ancient, massive Bladder with a crest of silvered feathers and eyes that glow with a soft, amber light. His translucent bladder-sac is scarred and patched, a testament to decades of service. He wears a mantle of woven metallic fibers.
Foreman Garrick
A weathered human man in his 50s, his face lined with worry and soot. He wears a stained Consortium engineer's jacket and carries a heavy wrench. His eyes dart nervously between the sky and his crew.
Renko
A gaunt human with wild, oil-stained hair and panicked eyes. He wears the torn, soot-blackened uniform of a Consortium co-pilot. He constantly wrings his hands and flinches at loud noises.
Archivist Sylphis
A slender, middle-aged Bladder with feathers of deep indigo. She carries a staff topped with a gently glowing crystal and a satchel overflowing with scrolls and stone fragments. Her movements are slow and deliberate.
Vex
A wiry humanoid with greyish, leathery skin and large, goggle-like eyes protected by thick, translucent lids. He wears a patched harness and moves with a skiff pilot's swagger. A faint, acrid smell clings to him.
Territorial Juvenile
A smaller, agitated Bladder with under-developed feathers and a large, rapidly inflating and deflating bladder-sac. Its movements are erratic and charged with static electricity.
Captain Rhea
A scarred human woman in mismatched, heavy armor. She carries a modified harpoon gun and has a predatory glint in her eye. Her crew of similarly armed scavengers lurks behind her.
Alchemist Myrra
A reclusive human woman living in a converted steam-vent cave. Her hands and apron are stained with a rainbow of chemical dyes. Glass distilleries and bubbling concoctions fill her workspace. She peers at visitors through thick, smudged lenses.

Chronicle Prelude

Environmental Traits

Legendary Archetypes

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