The celestial bodies of
Aiaos are a wide variety of objects and physical effects which manifest as bodies of light in the skies.
The Major Bodies
The Aiaosian sun and moon – usually known as
Soraes and
Doraes, their names in the proto-Titanic language – are twin entities, perhaps as ancient as the
Primeval Gods, or perhaps born as part of their act of creation. They are divine, but not exactly
Gods. Rather, they are vast cauldrons of divine energy, possessed of will, if not anything so narrow as a mortal intellect, and housed within great, celestial vessels that move within the
Firmament. The consensus of religious scholars is that the departing
Old Gods created these vessels, the Chariots, so that the Divine Twins could remain in the sundered world as channels for the power of the gods. Many believe that it is these chariots that allow the Twins to remain as beacons of permanence and regularity in the inharmonious world.
Both bodies shed their own light, an emanation of their divine power. Another source of near-ceaseless debate among theoretical theologians is why the lights of the Twins are so different. The light of Doraes is a soft, blue radiance, and that of Soraes a burning white. The two dominant schools of thought attribute it either to a variance in their divine nature, or to the structure of the Chariots.
In addition, there are three periodic
Comets which appear in the skies from time to time.
The Stars
The
Stars which appear in the skies above Aiaos are lights burning beyond the Web of Fate, in some cases beyond the Worldskin, bright enough to be seen in the material. The precise depth of any given star within the Outer and Far Realms is, save in a few specific instances, a matter of pure speculation based on brightness, hue and tradition.
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