One additional worldbuilding element from my
Curly and the Captain steampunk/dieselpunk short story series, set in the so-called
Aeroverse. These are the emblems of airship and skyclipper crews, most of them probably air merchants and
de facto sky pirates of one form or another. These four emblems were among several I could remember from the dream, but were the only four I could remember distinctly. I've tried to recreate them as best as I could after I wrote down notes about the dream. They often appeared on flags or in a coat of arms style arrangement, so I went with a coat of arms approach. I quite like these finished emblems, they seem believable and grounded, but also have a slight fantasy or otherworldly vibe to them. Fits the tone of the setting perfectly, IMHO. They even remind me of some of the more whimsical but not overdone coats of arms from the real world.
A close-up on the emblem of the
Nimrod, the zeppelin of the protagonists. Also the emblem of the guild/company run by that crew.
(Given my earlier
Dune illustration, nope, that is not an Atreides coat of arms, LOL.
This is more or less what I saw in the dream that inspired my new story series.)
TIA stands for
Transports Internationaux Aérien, i.e. "International Aerial Transports", and it's something of a tongue-in-cheek early aviation equivalent of the real world
Transports Internationaux Routiers ("International Road Transports"), the organisation behind the famous white-on-blue trucking signs. In my Aeroverse setting, the TIA regulates airship truckers, rather than TIR's road truckers.