When it
became perfectly clear to the Geyans that air power was something to
fear, they took a rather different approach to the problem than either
Grunburg or Alexander. Rather than spend their resources on airships
or sky fortresses, the Geyon council decided to take a more practical,
traditional approach.
Geyon is the hub
of mass production for things magical. Volumages number in the hundreds,
spending long days enchanting the stuff of magitech. Through the use
of focal amulets,
they can cast a very large amount of spells per day. The council decided
that they could more wisely spend their surplus of revenue, regardless
of how obscene an amount that had grown to of late, on more focal amulets
and training the volumages that the city already had in offensive combat
spells. The council set up classes at the Geyon College of Industrial
Magic for the mages, where they learned offensive flying with the use
of a Ring of the Falcons, which endows its wearer unlimited time in
the air, and the casting of fireballs and lightning bolts. With the
number of spells that the mages could cast and some magical items given
to them to resist missle attacks and magic, the Geyon council rested
well in the knowledge that things were well in hand, and they were
not too far from the mark.
The only
thing that they did not count on was the number of wizards that simply
vanished following their training to seek their fortune adventuring,
now that they had the tools to resist most enemies now. The council
accepted their losses, still happy with the progress that they had
made. The factory owners were more than pleased with the arrangement,
since it meant that they could have the mages use the city-supplied
mages to eek out a few extra spells each day, meaning more revenue
for them.
The one
thing that the Geyon Guard did do to increase their air presence was
to begin breeding hippogriffs for use in aerial battle. The council
secured land for the ranches in the badlands to the east of town, where
the creatures were trained almost from the time they hatched in the
art of offensive battle in the air. The riders, known simply as the "skyknights," became
renowned for their use of the mounted lances that were their primary
weapon. Many trained extensively in the use of the shortbow as well,
which they became quite proficient in.
Geyon is
unlikely to ever become an air power. The city concerns itself far
more with the day-to-day profitmaking of the busy industrial town.

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