Skytaverns

Skytaverns were a class of exceptionally large phraxships that acted primarily as luxury cruise liners for the affluent inhabitants of the Edge. Additionally, they sometimes carried cargo - the Deadbolt Vulpoon, at least, is shown receiving phrax crystals mined at the Prade Phraxmine, to transfer them to Great Glade.

Layout

Only one class of skytavern has been shown so far - an unnamed class to which the identical Deadbolt Vulpoon and Xanth Filatine belonged.

Skytaverns were extremely large, comparable to the Great Sky Whale of the First Age of Flight, and harboured a great many inhabitants, from criminal elements and the poor and desperate in the lowest decks, to wealthy merchants, mine-owners, and academics on the highest decks.

Like the majority of large phraxships, skytaverns had a single large phraxchamber located centrally on the top deck and reinforced by a stout internal mast. They were not designed with aerodynamic efficiency in mind, and had a large, snub-nosed prow.

Provision and Entertainment

Gambling

Gambling was a popular activity on skytaverns. Around large tables, up to forty gamblers[1] played games like Carillon, Hench, Rumblestakes and Shuttle, Shove-glader, Two-Bit Drop or, most popular, Splinters.[2]

Dining

Ordinary passengers ate in the "slop halls", communal dining halls. On the Xanth Filatine, this was a broad chamber with a low ceiling that was filled with twenty buoyant sumpwood tables and a central kitchen. The slop halls served mostly skyfare, sky creatures captured on a bait log, but also dips and sauces as well as snowbird and gullywing stew. [3]

Notable Skytaverns

References

  1. ↑ The Immortals, Chapter 51
  2. ↑ The Immortals, Chapter 16
  3. ↑ The Nameless One, Chapter 10
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