Art Sample: Storm Owls

In the very highest islands, where water freezes and the stars can be seen most clearly, when you get far above the clouds, it is almost impossible to breath. The water in the air crystalizes in your lungs, or you step into a pocket of near vacuum, kept magically stable until it pops and then hurls you inside of itself. The Storm Owls are the Union Guard who see to it that ice-mining and cloud-gathering operations in such a dangerous environment go off without a hitch, using their hooks, grapnels, and ice cutting tools to not only navigate the perilous ice islands, but to fight off those creatures and pirates that would prey on this most important of industries.