The Seven Stars
The Muse constellation, sometimes known in other regions as “The Seven Stars”, is a cluster of seven brightly twinkling stars seen in the night sky of Melior. They have been used as a navigational tool by sailors and travelers for thousands of years to find their way toward the Aurus - the central star gleams brightly and is always visible in the night sky.
The bright stars of the muse constellation are easy to tell apart from other constellations due to all of their six outter points being of a pulsing red colour, and the central star being much brighter and of pure white.
Lost Language
Scholars believe that this constellation formed the basis for the glyphs of the
ancient Auric language found in ruins all across Jolundria. The glyphs align with the constellation’s stars as if they were a grid and may have been used as one of the first written languages in Melior.
Shape Speculation
Several folks have speculated over the years as to what shape the muse constellation really is - as if playing a drawing game of dot-to-dot but without any numbers to guide you. The widely recognised symbol is the M
(for Muse), though many say it looks like an erupting volcano, or an hourglass with the top lid broken apart. Some say it's two fangs in an open maw, whilst others say it's the arms and midbody of a person.
The seven stars of the Muse constellation have
no official names, though local myths & legends will each tell you that they are named after fantastical things such as dead gods, bygone eras, the eyes of a demon watching over the land, or even the new lives every folk passes on to once they depart this world.
In other parts of the world the locals will convince you that these are real things: rubies of the night, the embers of creation, or perhaps an arcane glyph protecting the world itself.
At some point, someone will have to tell them that shape speculations about star systems have no sense at all. Often they only appear close from the planet you are looking from :P