High Skies Kingdom

"Above the clouds and skyward gold, the regent of the High Skies sits enthroned. His word is that of the heavens, his is the might of the twelve royal houses, standing united for one Kingdom to come, the Kingdom of High Skies, to rule the cloud sea of Venusia"

Isles in the Sky
High above the foundered floating continents buried in the atmosphere of Venusia, there hang suspended from invisible threads the isles of the High Skies archipelago. Chains of small isles, platforms, and runways, form seemingly fragile formations in the sky. Their hulk glitters in shining light, as they are forged from the precious metal scraped from the hellish world down below.

The High Skies archipelago encompasses sprawling cities of loosely connected isles, caravans of wandering isles, and the vast plates of agricultural colonies, hanging gardens feeding the populous of Venusia.

Brazen Crown and Citadel
On these isles stands a single kingdom united under the banner of a great conquistador. The first regent of the High Skies is said to be the queen Eleanor of Gascony, the First of her kind, founding mistress of the oldest house on the Archipelago. She and her Espatiers came, so legend tells, from beyond the sister world Venusia and from the ashes of their conquest built a new world.

Houses of riches and honor
On the isles of the High Skies Kingdom, great houses are born. These are conglomerates of companies and militaries, bloodlines of elites and chosen artisans of the highest skills. No matter their nature, the houses are treated as families, as an inseparable whole against the rest of the world.

Court & King
Twelve houses wield the power to overcome all the rest, and when they form their claim to elect a king is legitimized. Among their midst, they pick a chosen one, to wield the scepter of the archipelago. In the High Skies, the Regent reigns supreme until death - though they are often known to be overthrown.

Shattered Dome of the Otherworld
When she came to this world, the first Queen of the High Skies brought an ally beyond all recognition of the mundane. Upon her arrival, her elusive ally dropped the shattered dome and silence fell upon the Otherworld of the cloudy ocean on Venusia. Isolation from the Heliopolis was the price for her conquest and the aid of this ally, who took over the mighty machines of the defenders, sabotaged them and waged a war of their own against the Benthic Entities of the Sisterworld.

In the end, the dome stood unbroken, shattered yet still an impenetrable barrier between Venusia an the rest of the world. Only those chosen may send word through the dome of glittering glass, which persists in the Otherworld like a monument to the High Skies Kingdom.