"Can someone stop that creaking sound?!"
Finding the Wind
The
winds are very important to the lives of everyone on the
skies and they have long found ways to observe, record, and venerate them. Most common among
skysailors are windsocks and windcharts which depict the prevailing winds over an area.
In more common usage are the windvanes, metal signs that spin to indicate the direction of the wind. Some also included a cross-shape with ornaments on the ends that would spin in the wind. They are mostly decorative but formed the foundations for the skyvanes which would follow.
Finding the Way
After the introduction of
skyships, new methods were devised to navigation and one such method was the skyvane. It was initially disregarded as a fairly useless device on a ship when a
compass and a simple windsock could perform the same functions. Despite the initial misgivings, it was eventually put to use.
A skyvane has the ornamented cross shape spinner of the older windvanes that helps to judge wind speed. More importantly, it also contains at least a simple compass - a
compass that shows only the horizontal direction back to the
Cynosure Stone. This is useful for any vessels that have lost or broken their navigation equipment.
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Those Who Came Before
For
explorers windvanes can guide them to or from distant frontier regions. Some have been known to complain about finding them when they thought they were charting new territories only to find a structure posted by the previous
explorers.
"Captain, what are you doing?"
"I like to watch it spin lad."
"Wha-"
"Yankin' your leg lad but despite that broken compass, we need to find our way home."
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