Flight

Skyships are a core theme of the setting, but heck if I've properly developed the theory of it all... Sometimes it's better to say it just works, it doesn't matter how. Some is copied from Edge Chronicles, some is handwaved away as "it's magic, it just Does the Thing."

As a broad generalisation, ship design techniques can be categorised as follows, but with the largest hubs of ship building and trade being multicultural, many ships use multiple methods at once
 * Elven Flight - Enchanted wood, naturally bouyant woods. Elven ships are typically elegant, and capable of swift smooth flight, but aren't usually as durable or maneuverable.
 * Human Flight - human ships are primarily powered by large flight-crystals, but they utilise techniques from all races and influences. While they did not invent/discover any of the popular flight methods, it is from human schools that the most complex designs come from, and where the most advance aerodynamics and physical studies knowledge is from
 * Dwarven/Kharadron Flight - Make use of large balloon structures and propellers for buoyancy and control. Most also include flight-crystals. (see kharadron from Warhammer: Age of Sigmar for where I'm lifting visual ideas from)
 * Gnomish Flight - Gnomes are not ship builders, but have developed the most advanced arcanomechanical tech, including small one-person flying vehicles, which utilise flight-crystals, enchantments, propellors, and rapid dragonfly-like wings
 * Goblinoid Flight - Goblins technology is simultaneously very stupid and very clever. They are incredibly resourceful, and are willing to try things others would dismiss as ridiculous and unsafe. They somehow manage to scrap together a flyable vessel from any old wreckage and junkpile
 * Orcish Flight - The orcish view on flight is something along the lines of "Why waste time learning how to build ships when there are all these perfectly good wyverns to enslave?"
 * Miscellaneous - Things like magic carpets and broomsticks are common enchantments. Many, especially goblins, use gliders which isn't the same as flying, but with masterful use of air currents and updrafts is close enough for short distance. Also trained hippogryphs, pegasi, gryphons, wyverns, etc are reasonable common.