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Sky chains

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Reserved for those dangerous individuals the rich and powerful want to keep locked up, sky chains are a set of four hardened steel manacles with eyeloops for a chain to run through. The moniker comes from what the end of the chain is affixed to, a ball of smooth floatstone. Anyone shackled into sky chains […]

Cloud Lantern

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One of the more common floatstone creations; a cloud lantern is a large hexagonal iron enclosure for an oil lamp, capped by a small wheel of floatstone. Below a bulbous oil reservoir hangs a large metal ring, used to hook the lanterns for re-filling. More expensive examples have stained glass panes, incense burners, scented oils […]

Mirror Paper

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Two pieces of paper (usually found, or made, together) are joined together despite any distance between the two. With this in mind it is possible to communicate over large distances with them. This is done as one might think, by writing a message on one paper the other will display what is being written.