Sky Barges of Floria

Among the most legendary magical constructs in the known world are the sky barges of Floria. These are large flat-bottomed ship-like wooden vessels that can sail the skies of Myara.

There was a time in the Elder Days when the magical means to construct, maintain and sail these sky ships was supposedly fairly common. These days, such magical talents and skills are becoming rarer and rarer, and very few in the Northlands can claim to have ever seen such a thing. Even in the South, sightings are no longer common, with only the richest and most powerful of the old noble families owning a sky ship.

There are those who say that the reason for this rarity is that the art and magic of constructing a sky ship has mostly been lost, and the remaining such vessels are used very judiciously for fear of damaging a priceless and unrepairable item. Those that do remain exist as much as a status symbol than a practical item, and are not commonly used.

Very long gone are the days when fleets of Florian war barges set sail against the armies of Sakalarn, although the bards remember...

For most in the Northlands, the only tale told of a sky barge sighting in their lifetimes is of one that supposedly crashed in the northern Tellarn Mountains near Landslide Pass in NR 695, brought down by a dragon attack while flying from the High Plateau in the direction of Alsberg.