"Airships were definitely not a thing where I'm from either. Some of the principles are known, but no one has tried it."

[It was another thing where Zelgadis suspected that the small-scale tasks were done better by magic, even if human magic couldn't lift something like this craft. A bit like realizing that the explosives that were a curiosity he'd encountered in passing were used as weapons in the Outer World where magic was scarce.]

[Zelgadis was a bit slower; he was mindful of his increased weight on a craft where 'light' was a major design goal.]