We will need our sky-Prussia (Um.Valia) and our sky-France for a big war. I think we should think of at least a few really honkin' big ships-city-states on a boat. Your status in life is based on your crew position. Instead of Nations, we get Armadas-fleets of similar-culture ships with command crew nobility. They are ancient, supposedly built from 'the Old World' according to the ancient texts but no one's really sure. It is on these that crops are raised, children raised, etc. Ships come in a variety of sizes, obviously, from the one-man cavalry boats to the massive Arks that are closer to floating cities. So-do we want to have random flying islands? meteors piercing the eternal sky and giving rare but valuable (and very risky) chances to mine? Or is there an Ironback that you kill for the valuable metal plates on it's dorsal? So, we have another problem-I can make up floating seeds for plantlife, barnacles you scrape off and fry for potato chips or whatever, but.iron. Clouds are jungles, massive hiding places for predator and prey alike. The skies are FILLED with life, from birds and bats to the dreaded raptors and flail serpents and levakrakens. Let's say that their bones also tend to have some redundant lift even after death, so some villages are literally built on the bones of the whales they hunt. We have skywhales, leviathans that are FRIGGIN HUGE whales.

Endless sky hunt down