Dawnships are flying contraptions developed by inventors in the Brightmarch city-state of Teshub. These flying ships consist of a platform for passengers, above which is a screw-like sail connected to the platform via a mast. Very early designs required passengers to manually turn a crank or the entire mast in order to rotate the sail and lift the dawnship off the ground, though further iterations have used magical means to perform this action.
Dawnships have long been known as a curiosity in Teshub, interesting but too impractical for any real use. They could only fly for limited durations and to quite low heights, barely clearing the tops of houses in the city. In recent years, however, a new breakthrough has excited the inventors once more. By incorporating the magical feathers of eopteryx into the sails of their dawnships, the inventors found they found their flying craft could stay aloft far longer and reach previously unattainable heights.