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If Blessed is being the Pirate Parrot, who's going to be the Viking running the sky city?
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I'm picturing each parrot character being voiced by several people to display their versatility in the movie version, in case that wasn't clear, but we've definitely got to work Blessed in somewhere. ETA: If only Paul Frees was still alive, he'd be so perfect for this.
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How about the ruin of a flying city that is now resting on the ground? It's no longer magical, but it serves as a reminder of awesome magics in the past. It might be occupied by lunatics (maybe even competing varieties of lunatics) who:
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There could be some lingering magic left, so people keep searching for it. Leading to man-eaters setting up shop for the steady supply of food.
Leading to monster slaying adventurers... This could plausibly keep going for a very long time with occasional lulls until a new set of rumors/youths start it up again.
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If the magic was woven into the structure of the sky city, it could be abandoned, falling into ruins, but not yet fallen to earth. It would be a great place for monsters or evil wizards or your Thulsa Doom knock-off to live.
Here's a wild thought for your Sword and Sorcery world. Have an ancient curse flip the climate zones. The Polar regions would be tropical and the tropics would be ice packs, glaciers, and vast snow fields. The sky city, which orbits the planet from pole to pole, would be the safest surest route through the equitorial snows. Meanwhile a tropical artic ocean would be a cool adventurer's sea. Perfect for rich kingdoms and pirates!
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For the idea of reversing climate zones... well, the world is a disc, with the Great God Anu as the sky and his wife Ki as the Earth. Or the sky is Tiamat's upper half and her lower half as the Earth. Both explanations are available in the same culture. The sky is 36 000 feet at the highest, and the disc is 36 000 miles radius (always give yourself plenty of room to grow). Maybe we could put one diameter as "cold" and have coldness spread from it. Nothing of this is necessary, but like I said I love world-building.
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