Cloud Quarter was one of the twelve districts of the city of Great Glade. A towering, hilly community of schools and academies, Cloud Quarter served a very similar purpose to the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the First Age of Flight, and, while Cloud Quarter welcomed both Earth-Scholarship and Sky-Scholarship, its schools were still full of the same rumor, intrigue, and plotting that has been infamous in Sanctaphrax centuries before. The academics of Cloud Quarter were very disdainful of the descenders. They shut down the Society of Descenders, and, when similar experiments began to occur in the School of Edge Cliff Studies, the other schools of Cloud Quarter began to restrict funding to the academy.