A Skyman's Glossary

This doc contains common terms one encounters when sailing the Shattermoon.

Moonberg: a floating chunk of Ambar's former third moon.
 * Shoals: A cloud of very small moonbergs, about the size of refrigerators. Hazardous to travel through.
 * Skyshard Cloud: a cloud of skyshards floating in the air. These can be very hazardous for a ship's crew and her balloon.

Rare Moonbergs:
 * Moonmoat: A small Moonberg, roughly between the size of a van and a house.
 * Dwarf: A small skyland, or a large moonmoat, perspective is everything. roughly the size of a city block.
 * Skyland: A sizable moonberg. Vary in size from about 8 city blocks to 2 miles in diameter.
 * Moonscape: a very large chunk of moon indeed. Between 3 to 10 miles across. Very rare in the outersphere.
 * Skyland System: Skylands seem to attract smaller moonbergs around them, creating relatively dense areas of lunar chunks.
 * Black Hole: Very rarely, a Moonberg will exert far more gravity than it should, overpowering the distant earth. These are very dificult to navigate around and mess with navigators instruments if they are not accounted for. They tend not to drift, however, and make excellent landmarks and actually help navigators who know their location.
 * Legends tell of vast Moonscapes dozens of miles across deep in the middlesphere and in the innersphere itself. These virtual continents are said to house their own biome, rivers, and lakes teeming with bizarre creatures.
 * Cloudanchor: these dwarf skylands are shrouded in deep mist and often send participation floating downstream from them.
 * Shadowthing Haven: these dwarf skylands fail to provide protection from Shadowthings. Worse, they are a haven for them to hide out during the day. The creatures poor fourth at night and seek to ambush any unfortunate enough to mistake the moonberg for a safe place.