The Vault

Vault is another word for the sky on Elladion, and often takes the place of the word “sky” in conversation.

The implication of an atmospheric vault is literal, as all modern space-faring attempts have failed due to the increasingly violent weather of the upper atmosphere. There are innumerable amounts of records detailing attempts by several species capable of either flight or building a vessel capable of flight. Those who travel too far are simply battered away or shredded into pieces by wind and airborne particles.

Valenkin Faeries (Pterosaurs) pride themselves on challenging the Vault, finding ways to achieve, at the very least, reliable aerial travel in bold experimental ways. 

The largest of these Faeries shuttle populations from one Settlement to the next, and even fly through Sunspotting events as a sort of extreme sport.

Only the fabled Atlantean Tower (A failed megastructure similar to a Space Elevator) came close to breaching the surface-vault barrier.