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<warning: this is 'serious ASB'. Leave all sillyness and laws of rationality at the door and just bring your coolness hat.>

WI actual airships were possible?
What I mean is the sort of thing from many of the final fantasy games or skies of arcadia or anywhere else. Literal air ships in otherwise medieval worlds.
Lets assume they require similar skills to make them as actual ships.
They have sails which provides the majority of their movement (until steam power is discovered of course) and their main lift is provided by...*asb drumroll* a sort of magic alchemist's paint discovered in the mid 14th century by an eccentric Hanse. What this paint does is somehow renders the ship light enough so that the sails can make it go up (or down) as well as in more standard ship directions.
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