The very first working airship in recorded history was the "Beyonder", which Loren Venar used in his famed travels in which he opened up the first commercial rules with the Eastern empires. Up until that time, there had already been several sky kingdoms, floating fortresses and aerial transport, but never before had they actually been able to direct their flight and steer their direction. The Beyonder used a series of sails which employed wind thrust to compensate for the erratic behavior of the avernon stone's floating paths. Compared to today's vessels, it was slow, bulky, expensive and had a lot of structural flaws, but it was the first of its kind, and the history of discoveries is divided in before and after the Beyonder.