The largest continent on Aeloria with 100s of Skylands dotting its the skies. Ruled by the Mad Queen Darysis for the last 100 years, the land is trifle with corruption and intimidation at every level of power with the queen rewarding cleverness and trickery over everything else. She had grown paranoid in her age and believed lies and secrets her only real shield. 50 years ago a group of rebels mostly comprised of the Skylands native people, Owlins, were quelled after a rebel Owlin of House Cloud betrayed the cause out of fear for his wife who was expecting child. The mad queen slaughtered every Owlin on the continent excluding only the traitor rebel and his wife. She elevated the rebel to lower nobility only to keep the last of the birds in her cage. The child they had was the older brother of a child that would one day be born in shadow and secrecy in hopes the queens sight would never fall on the child, as she had sunk her claws in their first child and turned him into her most ardent servant. This child was named Edrin Cloud who would one day be forced by the mad queen to infiltrate a neighboring country to steal a new valuable stone named Ulcromite after she hunted him down.
No one knows the sources of the Skylands or how they are able to float in the sky as no wizard was ever able to detect even trace amounts of magic on its soil or the surrounding air. No one even knows how many there are, as the further you climb the more appear. Many have attempted to find the last and final island but none have returned after passing a certain island but none were sure how far was too far. These Skylands contain a variety of eco systems and weather, each acting as its independent climate zone.