Safejourn

This rounded, goatskin-covered steel and alumin helmet covers the head, back of the neck, eyes, and nose of the user, covered with only goatskin where the ears are.

Over the eyes are built two darkened lenses, and over where the nostrils would go is soft, tufted goathair, keeping some of the heat lost while breathing through the nose. The helmet itself is hollow, and a large cork adorns the top of it.

Inside the helmet is padded with the same soft goathair as the nostrils, and a leather chinstrap attaches just below the ear, wrapping around to attach just below the other.

There was once a crazy young Halaghi by the name of Hal'uoth who was allowed to own a dirigible for the purpose of ferrying Halaghi about. With it, however, he'd fly all through the mountains, dodging obstacles by mere inches and sending flocks of birds racing for cover. Focused, he never seemed to notice how cold or thirsty he was getting until he was far from home.

One day, Hal'uoth ended up so cold that he went into shock at the wheel, crashing and destroying his dirigible at the base of Nu-Halagh. As he recovered and tried to figure out how to convince the community that he needed another dirigible, he began to devise a helmet that would provide him with the base needs that he lacked. It was in this spirit that he created Safejourn.

He made the hollow helmet out of steel, alumin, glass, and goatskins, fashioning it like a huge thermos. Hot lichen tea would be poured into the corked hole at the top, which would in turn heat his head. If he became thirsty, he could drink the contents of the helmet. He also fashioned a noseguard (as his injury had broken his nose rather severely), and put goathair next to his nostrils to keep heat from being lost that way.

Almost as an afterthought, Hal'uoth had dark tinted glass installed over where the eyes would be, so that he wouldn't have to deal with snowblindness.

Despite all of his preparation, it was eventually decided that Hal'uoth should never fly again. Crestfallen, he nonetheless gave his invention to his successor, Hal'belat. It was in this way that Safejourn has been passed down over generations of dirigible pilots.


 * Status: Retired.