Airships of The Continent

Being a rather recent creation in The Continent, airships are, as the name implies, once nautical ships that have been modified so that they can be airborne. Airships still have the hulls and cannons of the normal, waterborne ships, having similar deck structure of said ships, with the masts and sails taken off to make space for the blimp structure, which actually allows the ship to get into the air. There are sail like structures often built into the side of the hull, which stick out, providing greater surface area. Pipe work allows pressurised gas(hydrogen) to be pumped into the blimp, with greater pressure allowing for control of the ship's altitude. 
The pipe work itself is of gnomish make, with the gnomes of Concidorne reverse engineering the chamber in which the warforged were located, using that technology and applying to the airships. It should be noted that the discovery of the warforged chamber occurred in 475ADE, and after years of studying both the chamber and the warforged, the application of it could only be done in the last couple of years, leading to many new creations, with the airship being the most famous of the bunch.

Access & Availability

Airships are by no means a widespread technology. Given that the gnomes are the only ones capable of creating the airships, they are most prominent there, and the wars that the Sahrian Union are in make it difficult for the gnomes to spread their knowledge. Some have been loaned; however, with four airships, The Vanguard, The Huntress, The Sovereign and The Harbinger being the ones gifted to Knaeva in order to aid the war against the yuan-ti of Oshal.