Historical Architecture - Part 6

The flying castle

In the age of magic, gravity was no longer a law. For, with near limitless power at one's fingertips, it became possible to fly, or even to levitate a small building. Such was the power trapped forever within the weapons of the elements.

One of the weapons of the elements harnessed the power of the air, and it was a bow. Hundreds of years later, a shadowkin got his hands on it, and the power drove him to the heights of shadowkin culture. His name was Marshal Hian.

He harnessed the near limitless power of the elemental weapon to create a massive fortress bound instead of to the ground, to the sky. It became, over the years Marshal Hian was alive, one of the most powerful and influential cities in the world, though like all good things, it came to an end one night when Marshal Hian passed away in his sleep. The castle carshed to the ground in the jungles of Grittlanni, killing everyone inside and destroying all the great art and culture that had been built around this nigh-utopian society.

Today, still people make it their quests to locate and delve into the ruins, if not in search of treasure, in search of the elemental weapon of the air - for since from that day, it has been lost to the pages of history.