Silver Sun

The Silver Sun is a skyship originally owned by Ariks Eshteross, who willed it to Bells Hells.

Description
The Silver Sun is made of light-colored wood, and has a pair of sails mounted on its hull on the port and starboard. It is trimmed and detailed with polished brass. The ship has two large pieces of brumestone embedded on the main and quarterdeck. Two ballistae are mounted on the port and starboard sides of the main deck, and a third is mounted on the back of the poop deck.

Underneath the wheel, there's a set of controls that regulate the intensity of the brumestone engines. When one of the levers that handles the central gem in the middle of the ship is pulled, it locks into place, anchoring against gravity or other forces pulling it in any direction.

On their way to the Tishtan site, Laudna painted the symbol of the Cerberus Assembly on the bottom of the ship in order to disguise it. The sandstorms Bells Hells encountered as they approached their destination sandblasted it, making it look weathered.

Crew

 * Xandis: Captain
 * Khalil Benes: First mate
 * Denalia: Cook
 * Terana: Deckhand
 * Gordi: Deckhand

Campaign 3: Bells Hells
When Cyrus Wyvernwind nearly got caught by the Green Seekers and was brought back to Eshteross' manor by Bells Hells, Eshteross arranged for Cyrus and his brother Dorian Storm to be smuggled aboard his skyship, bound for Emon in Tal'Dorei, in order to lie low. Nearly two weeks later, the Silver Sun had returned to Jrusar.

When Bells Hells visited Eshteross after their trip to Heartmoor Hamlet, Eshteross asked them to travel on the Silver Sun to Bassuras of the Hellcatch Valley in order to find and capture Armand Treshi. Bells Hells departed the Aerie Skyport at Jrusar and began the voyage to the Hellcatch Valley. On the second day of the trip, they, along with the crew of the Silver Sun, fought off a pair of skirath hunters. Two days later, the crew, along with Bells Hells, used the ship's chained harpoons shot from the ship's ballistae to prevent a dusttra from attacking a caravan traveling through the Hellcatch Valley. The crew then dropped off Bells Hells on the outskirts of Bassuras before leaving.

Following their narrow escape from the Seat of Disdain, Bells Hells called Captain Xandis to pick them up. They did so, with the party jumping on to the still-moving skyship on the outskirts of Bassuras. They then sailed back to Jrusar.

Upon Ariks Eshteross's death, in his manor, Chetney found an envelope addressed to Bells Hells. In addition to a letter to the party, it also included a portion of his will, in which he left them the ownership of the Silver Sun, with wages paid to the existing crew for one year.

The party continued to fly around Marquet on the skyship, traveling first to Yios with a brief stop in the Gloomed Jungles, then having the crew pick them up in Gelvaan to travel to the Tishtan excavation site in the Hellcatch Valley. As they planned their assault on the Malleus Key, Chetney suggested flying the Silver Sun into the key to destroy it. Bells Hells liked this plan, and decided to pursue it, with Fearne and Ashton learning some of the basics of piloting. Chetney convinced Xandis to permit it, promising them other skyships in the future. After dropping off the rest of the crew in a safe place and most of Bells Hells close to the rim of the excavation, Xandis remained with Ira Wendagoth. Initially Fearne and FCG stayed with them, but then joined the rest of Bells Hells after confirming Ira would carry out the plan.

FCG messaged Ira as Ludinus prepared to activate the key. Ira flew the skyship towards the Malleus Key, but Ludinus engaged an arcane shield, and the Silver Sun shattered before it hit the key, though the falling debris injured and killed some of the assembled followers. Ira and Xandis both successfully escaped.

Behind the scenes
The model for the Silver Sun was built by Howard Andrews (@minileed). It was commissioned by Matthew Mercer in anticipation of skyship travel at some point in Campaign 3, especially should Bells Hells maintain a relationship with Eshteross. It was "casually" built over a period of three months.

In, Eshteross said that his skyship had returned from Whitestone after delivering Bertrand Bell's body to the city. However, it was not the Silver Sun that had gone to Whitestone, as Eshteross had chartered another skyship to do this instead because the Silver Sun was away from Jrusar at that time.