The people of Beneath the Cloudline come from a tribe divided by height, history, exile, and distance. Though all share common roots, generations apart have shaped very different ways of living, working, and seeing the sky.
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The Rooted live beneath the Cloudline in villages built around gardens, scaffold lines, workshops, and shared labor. They grow food, maintain the towers, repair what breaks, and pass practical knowledge from one generation to the next.
Faith and family bind them together. Privacy is scarce. Opinions are not.
The Highborn live above the Cloudline in Halidom's towers, surrounded by hydroponic gardens, automated systems, and generations of Council rule. Their world values order, privacy, and control.
Children are raised for defined roles, systems are carefully monitored, and tradition is written into law.
The Seedbinders live beyond Halidom in Spire Eleven, where their ancestors were exiled after the Great Weathering. Descended from the scientists who created the Bloom, they inherited both its knowledge and its consequences.
Their culture blends biology, glyphs, and observation of the natural world.
The Skywoven live aboard eight airships drifting above the old seabed. Their ancestors were phase-runner scouts who chose the sky generations ago, carrying their knowledge beyond Halidom before the exile.
They became navigators, and listeners, hovering above a world few in Halidom have ever seen.