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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9794872" data-attributes="member: 52734">More: (hope this doesn't seem like spam, this is the sort of design I love to do)The Skybound:  Originally started as a cross-city courier service employing mounted Griffons, today the Skybound have two divisions - the long-vaunted courier service and a branch that acts as a form of aerial constabulary.  As the tale goes, while the courier Artrax Spiathe was running packages to a Cynelsa lord, he witnessed a merchant robbery in Robinford.  Without hesitation, Artrax swooped in and apprehended the crooks.  When his handler later berated Artrax for risking and delaying his delivery, the courier was affirmed when the affected merchant sent praise and monetary award to the organization (though the handler seized the award for the company as compensation for Artrax's flouting the company's precepts).  As time passed, Artrax moved up through the ranks and convinced the Skybound to found the Air Patrol division to act as an aerial police patrol. As the final revenge, Artrax eventually became the head of the Skybound when the old master finally retired.The Skybound own several Skiles strategically placed across the city and has ground-based offices in all buroughs.  While originally only employing Griffons and generally only human or elf agents, the Skybound now uses Griffons, Giant Sparrows and for the largest packages, flying elephants.  They also now employ all races, with the smaller races tending to use the Giant Sparrows that are used for light, super-fast message deliveries.The Air Patrol generally uses Giant Hawks or Giant Eagles (though commanders are often astride Griffons), with the rider having a beast bond to a normal Hawk or Eagle to act as recon for their patrols.  All of the Air Patrol is trained and affirmed by the ground-based constalubary, though they are not considered part of the city police force proper, and are on the Skybound payroll, though their funding generally comes from bounties recieved for capturing criminals.  In Cynelsa, the Skybound has a special crack unit of Air Patrol that consists of a handful of winged aasimar armed with maces of stunning that are kept in reserve for special cases or riot suppression.---------------------------The El: This "elevated" railway criss-crosses the city, using magnets garnered from the Earth portal to power its suspended iron lines.  The railway passes underneath the river of the El and only reaches the edges of the Waveswith region, as canals are the perferred "fast" transit method in that burough (and also issues with rusting rails with the high volume of water permeating that burough). Likewise, there are several private lines in Cynelsa for those individual's personal use, and few reach beyond the bounds of that burough or link into the the communal lines. There are no lines that go to the central isle, though there are rumors of a secret line and station underneath that auspicious isle.Multiple linked and enclosed cars (usually no more than 4) run the railline, controlled by bound earth elementals that have been trained to run certain lines. Strategically positioned stations allow the common populace to use the El and guild-fostered law prevents the lines from being used to transport cargo.  Most of the intraburough lines have only a single lane enforcing one-way traffic, though the interburough lines have at least two lanes, allowing coming and going traffic to run simultaneously.<Edit: mixed up intra vs. inter; corrected></blockquote>

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