Glossary of the Reaches
Fictional world. Leyra Ashwind is an original fictional character from the Vizlings app. Everything on this page is imaginative lore about her world — not real history, not a real person. All character art is AI-generated dramatization art, created in-house.
Talk like a sky-sailor.
- Ashwind
- Leyra's clan; storm-listeners of the high eastern islands.
- Calling
- Shaping small willing winds; the everyday art of gust-callers.
- Cloud sea
- The endless clouds below the islands; home to cloud-rays.
- Current-riding
- Catching the Great Currents bodily, without a ship. Dangerous; Leyra's specialty.
- Dead air / dead calm
- Sky with no wind at all. Sailors' dread; see the Siege of Cloudharbor.
- Feather-capsule
- A message pod ridden on the currents between islands.
- Feather charm
- A carved storm-petrel-bone token carried by wind-singers for luck.
- Featherfall
- Controlled gliding with shaped currents; Leyra's famous art.
- Great Currents
- The vast wind-rivers looping between the islands on seasonal courses.
- Gust-calling
- See calling.
- Harbor pilot
- A wind-singer who talks ships down through crosswinds to the mooring towers.
- High Road
- A rumored current above the highest clouds; uncharted.
- Hollow, the
- A region of sky where the wind went silent. Leyra's one fear.
- Listening
- Reading a storm's voice — its pressure, humidity, and temper — from its hum.
- Mooring tower
- The tall masts where skyships dock at cloud cities.
- Quiet Table
- The Ashwind clan custom of leaving one seat empty at meals, for the wind.
- Ray-shadow
- Sailors' blessing: “ray-shadow on your sails” — good luck.
- Reaches Reckoning (R.R.)
- The fictional calendar of the Reaches.
- Silver sail
- Current-catching sailcloth treated with storm-silver.
- Skybound Reaches
- The whole scattered world of floating islands.
- Storm-deaf
- The exhausted, headachy state after calling too hard.
- Storm-iron
- Heavy ballast metal used in skyship keels.
- Storm-listener
- A wind-singer specialized in hearing storms; the Ashwind art.
- Wind-ledge
- A cliff platform where young listeners sit out their First Listening.
- Wind-singer
- A practitioner of windcraft generally; Leyra's calling.