Category:Ilyan Cloud
The Ilyan Cloud is a Loenthran airship which has occasionally served as the venue for a free festival, complete with shopping and merchant activity. The festival takes place on and around the airship of the same name.
The Ilyan Cloud returns, this time docking in Ta'Illistim at the city's airship docks. It brings with it shopping and merchants.
Run Dates
Current
The Ilyan Cloud is docked in Ta'Illistim starting March, 2002.
Previous
| Dates Run | Festival Information | Saved Posts |
|---|---|---|
| March 2002 | Festival information | |
| January 1999 | Festival information |
Activities
The Ilyan Cloud offeres a variety of shopping and merchant oppoertunities.
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Additional Information
The Ilyan Cloud is a Loenthran airship, first sent by Queen Cadhla Loenthra to open trade between House Loenthra and Western Elanith, especially the Turamzzyrian Empire. The ship arrived unannounced in Solhaven on January 16, 1999, bearing a variety of wares, some two dozen merchants and a dozen ship's crew, including Calum, Danae, Detilerus, Eiladar, Mangus, Mystickal, Ophelya, Pathia, Puffen, Ritue, Syphon, Urnlas, and Xarascribe. It returned in 2002, once again bearing wares and merchants, this time to Ta'Illistim.
The January 1999 voyage of the Ilyan Cloud delivered the first shipment of musical instruments to the Western side of the DragonSpine. The ship's bardess Eiladar furnished a customized instrument for each bard that visited the ship during its visit.
Queen Cadhla Loenthra was the initiator of the Cloud's first trip to the West. The public reason the elves gave for this visit was that they desired free and open trade. And while this was, in fact, quite true - Queen Cadhla is a skilled and shrewd tradeswoman who has never considered a market she didn't want to master - a second more covert reason for the visit was to evaluate whether the growing human population might someday pose a threat to the elven kingdoms on the eastern side of the mountains. The Cloud, being a privately owned merchant vessel, was deemed a good choice for this reconnoiter. Captain Calum himself had served in the Loenthran military in his younger years and was reputed to still occasionally spy on his Queen's behalf. Some number of the ship's merchants were undoubtedly in the Queen's employ as well.
Whatever her spies reported back to her, Queen Cadhla was satisfied that it was safe for her people to continue visiting the west, and additional skyships continued to visit over over the next few years. Three years after the Cloud's first visit to Solhaven, Queen Cadhla, along with her son-in-law King Eamon of House Ardenai, were instrumental in convincing the other elven leaders that opening their borders to foreign visitors would be a safe and financially lucrative endeavor. In particular, opening the route into the east would not have been possible without Queen Myasara's cooperation and support, since travelers must venture into Illistim lands upon exiting the dwarven stronghold within the DragonSpine.
Ship's Name: The Ilyan Cloud was named after a Loenthran merchant family's surname, Ilya. The Ilya family built the ship and at some later point in time was acquired by Calum Gaothaire. "The Cloud" is its commonly used nickname.
Ship's Captain and Owner: Captain Calum Gaothaire
Ship's Wayfinder: Mangus the Wayfinder
Ship's Crew: The ship's crew and her resident merchants referred to themselves as "Ilyaners".
Structure and flight: According to an airship model found in Museum Alerreth, the hull is plated with veniom, and the ship has common Loenthran design elements including large masts, multi-part sails, and wide decks. It is based on an earlier Illistimi design. Airships, also known as skyships, are navigated by Wayfinders using a combination of telepathic ability and physical instruments in place of a helm or rudder. The navigation skill itself is called "Brou Setche" by the elves, and is a learned skill that requires lengthy training.
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