Captain
IONE VASS
“The sky doesn’t care where you meant to go. Fly anyway.”
- Flight hours
- 11,240
- Home isle
- Brasswind Steppe
- Age
- 46
Good at
- Reads a storm two hours out
- Long-haul command
- Brass-and-canvas field repair
Voice: to be announced (fictional)
The Crew
Navigator & mapmaker
WREN HALLOWAY
“Every blank on the chart is a promise.”
- Flight hours
- 1,860
- Home isle
- Lantern Shoals
- Age
- 22
Good at
- Charts the cloud sea as you fly
- Star fixes without instruments
- Sketches faster than she talks
Voice: to be announced (fictional)
Engineer
TOBIN REEL
“If it rattles, it’s still running.”
- Flight hours
- 6,420
- Home isle
- Cinder Reef
- Age
- 34
Good at
- Hears an engine fault before it happens
- Patches gas cells mid-flight
- Cooks for six on one burner
Voice: to be announced (fictional)
Lighthouse keeper
PELL THE ELDER
“I kept the light so someone would find the way home.”
- Flight hours
- 3,100
- Home isle
- The Quiet Gyre
- Age
- 81
Good at
- Knows the old routes by heart
- Lamp signals in six codes
- Tells the weather by his knees
Voice: to be announced (fictional)
Sky pirate, rival
KESTRA MOLL
“Finders keepers. I just find faster.”
- Flight hours
- 8,900
- Home isle
- Contested
- Age
- 29
Good at
- Boarding hooks and rope running
- Outflies anything with a sail
- Lies very convincingly
Voice: to be announced (fictional)
The ship
THE LONG
AFTERNOON
A forty-year-old cargo airship with a patched canvas envelope and a brass engine that Tobin talks to. Slow in a headwind, steady in a storm, and big enough to carry a market’s worth of lanterns.
| Length | 62 m |
|---|---|
| Envelope | 18,400 m³ |
| Ceiling | 9,200 ft |
| Crew | 5 |
| Cargo hold | 12 t |