Paradise

"Most people think Paradise is just an urban myth, a mirage high above Vacuo's desert. But make no mistake, it's real alright, it's where Lucian and I come from, it's... it was home."-Gabriel Gold's description of Paradise.

Paradise is a massive island held aloft by massive reserves of gravity dust. It's been a safe haven for it's faunus inhabitants since the invasion of Vacuo by other kingdoms before the Great War.

The people there are highly secretive and isolationist to the point of keeping their existence a secret to the rest of Remnant in fear of being attacked like Vacuo once was, and lose their vast supply of dust and the many weapons and dust techniques they mastered over the decades.

Recently, Lucian Gold was exiled from Paradise, and his brother, Gabriel Gold joined him. Now, they belong in Team GLDN, and agree Paradise is best left a secret.

Description
Paradise is a massive circular island of semi-connical shape. A thick crust of ice and gravity dust accumulates on the bottom, keeping the island aloft, while the insides of the island are filled to the brim with all sorts of dust. The citizens of Paradise are all faunus, and cunning ones at that. Not only do they populate the surface of Paradise with their beloved Silver City, but they also crafted homes within the island itself, some houses having windows to the sides of the island. The architecture is greek in style, formed of marble and dust, large pillars and round domes form most of the houses and facilities. At the center of the city is The Academia, a massive building that serves as the only learning facility in Paradise.

History
Paradise wasn't always on the sky. Long before the Great War, a group of faunus, cast out for their heritage, formed the village near a oasis close to a massive dust reservoir. Unlike the majority of Vacuo's people, who entered a state of complacency, the people of Paradise studied dust, hoping to not just survive, but truly thrive in their paradise.

Alas, soon came the other kingdoms, eager to take hold of Vacuo's resources. In a desperate act to protect themselves from Atlas' oncoming forces, the people of the kingdom gathered as much gravity dust as possible and triggered it deep beneath their city to unbelivable results. When the atlesian forces arrived, only a crater remained where Paradise once lay.

It was there, high in the sky, that a faunus utopia came to be. The people there, isolated from the rest of the world save for when they sent people down to hunt, turned their focus solely on developing new ways to utilize dust. Weapons, clothing, tatoos... they discovered many of these long before the other kingdoms turned their eyes to such ideas.

Yet, they were not perfect. Even as the Great War came to an end, the people of Paradise were loath to endanger themselves by returning. Instead, they imposed several rules on the population in order to avoid discovery. Soon, Paradise became little more than a myth to most of Remnant. Over the decades, it's population became solely of faunus.