The Aerovynes

Masters of the Windways

The Aerovine tribe dwells in Siphyrea's Crown Zone, where their silver-green hair and leaf-veined skin make them nearly indistinguishable from their treetop home. Their society revolves around two sacred arts: Wind Gliding and Windway Crafting.

From childhood, Aerovine learn Wind Gliding, progressing from simple branch-to-branch movements to advanced aerial acrobatics. Using specially crafted cloaks, intermediate gliders can navigate complex wind patterns, while advanced practitioners perform death-defying maneuvers through turbulent airways. Master gliders are rare and revered, capable of riding the winds for hours through even the fiercest storms.

Their second art, Windway Crafting, transforms intangible air into solid paths. Beginners start by creating simple bridges between nearby branches, while intermediates learn to maintain multiple stable connections. Advanced crafters can weave complex networks supporting dozens of travelers, but true masters achieve the extraordinary – creating vast, lasting networks of invisible highways throughout the Crown Zone.

The tribe's settlements center around the Convergence, a massive platform where master-crafted Windways intersect. Here, the Wind Weavers – elders who have mastered both arts – maintain an intricate network of air paths that serves as Siphyrea's most sophisticated transportation system.

These abilities make the Aerovine invaluable as traders and messengers, though they're equally renowned as guardians of ancient wind-magic. Their techniques are preserved through wind-songs, audible only in the highest branches where the most powerful wind currents dance with the silver-green leaves of their arboreal domain.