The Aetherium Dawn

The Aetherium Dawn, designated Artifact 7.03 in the Post-Schism Recovery Index, is a chilling testament to the dangers of volatile materials falling into anarchic hands. Its significance lies not in its dwarven provenance—it has none—but in its function as the flagship of the renegade aerial faction, the Cobalt Corsairs. This vessel was constructed roughly a century after the Great Sundering, cobbled together from massive salvaged airship hulls and repurposed metal scavenged from the heights of the Iron-Grip Mountains. The Dawn’s terrifying effectiveness is derived from its core power source: a series of stolen and crudely modified Aetherium Conduits. These highly volatile devices harness raw, destabilized Aetherium to grant the ship unparalleled speed and lift, allowing it to navigate the precarious Skystrider Paths with aggressive precision, often disrupting the stable routes used by the Aethelgardian Sky-Guard. While traditional dwarven structural engineering, perhaps provided by collaboration with the Gnomish Tinkers, ensured its massive skeleton, the soul of the Dawn is pure piracy. Under the command of Captain Valeria, it serves as a mobile monument to defiance against the ordered truth of the Dwarven Abbey, utilizing the very remnants of our tragic past to threaten our measured present. It is, in essence, a flying indictment of our collective failure to safeguard the powerful knowledge of the deep stone.