My character for Ironfang Invasion is a Sylph Swashbuckler who is a retired Airship Captain from the Plane of Air.
How does one become an Airship Captain before first level? Grandad Djinni was connected.
How does one retire from Airship Captain at first level? Complete incompetence (he holds the record for most airship crashes into the Sussuran Palace).
How does one end up in the backwoods of Nirmathis from the Plane of Air? Everywhere on the material plane looks the same to a pissed off and disappointed Djinni Grandad.
Edit: I plan on multi-classing with Sorcerer (bloodline tbd, not air though) and then Eldritch Knight.