Doraes

Doraes (child of starlight) is the moon of Aiaos, and like eir twin, Soraes, is not a god but something both less and more; a channel for vast divine energies, housed within a celestial chariot fashioned by the Old Gods. The moon’s passage across the Aiaosian sky is as regular as clockwork, rising and setting at sunset and sunrise each day. The point at which it rises makes a slow progression around the circumference of Aiaos in the opposite direction to the sun’s movement – called widdershins, countersun or moonwise – but its nightly journey always carries it over the Crown to set on the far edge. At midsummer it rises in the north, directly in line with the setting Soraes, thanks to which overlap it has been established by observation that the moon is more distant from Aiaos than the sun.
Most assume that the moon spends the day in a mansion realm similar to the Palace of Dawn. Only a few realise that, by day, Doraes passes over the Plains of Strife, illuminating the battles of the Deep War.
Unlike the moons of some worlds, Doraes generates its own light, a soft, blue glow which washes across its surface like a wave. A complete cycle of this radiance, from dark to full to dark again takes almost exactly 28 days. The cause of this cycle is a source of much academic contention. Some say that the Moon’s Chariot is a rotating sphere, with only one side permitting the radiance of Doraes to pass through. Others maintain that the face of the Chariot is a disc, different parts of which are illuminated throughout the month by some mechanism or other. Those who claim that the Chariot’s very form is mutable are in a vocal minority.
The moon has two meanings in Aiaosian astrology. Its light is associated with the uncorrupted divine, religious ecstasy, instinct and the natural order. Conversely, the dark of the moon symbolises the fall of harmony, the violent subconscious, greed, rage, secrecy and betrayal, and the corruption of the Colossi. As a whole, Doraes is associated with cycles, transformation, mutability and adaptability.