Nimbus (NIHM bus)

In terms of appearance, Nimbus, the striped and internally luminescent protostar is a gas giant roughly ten times the size of Terra’s Jupiter. It is "orbiting" a yellow G-type star, Helios (with its own peculiarities listed separately), though in truth, the two impact each other more similarly to the earth-moon system we have here... each gravitationally locked in a lazy duet, screaming through space together, weaving around each other along their gravitic "center" someplace between them. Ancient observers of Nimbus and Helios conjecture the possibility of a third, more powerful though the invisible player in this dance; if it exists, it can only be referenced in the Cataclysm of The Beginning, or the Apocalypse of the End, or perhaps in the microcosm of the Time Between.

Limn Source

The radiant material of which all magic is made flows on the Nimbus Winds and is ever-present in the Nimbus Halo, the glowing field of energized dust and particles that swirls around the atmosphere of Nycos. Reacting with the highly volatile potential of the untouched center, all areas that the Limn can reach response and develops its own response.

Light Source

As you would expect, Nimbus, as the primary energy source provides all the necessary light, UV, and IR spectrum emanations necessary for a roughly earth-like climate. Indeed, the feature of Nimbus that most clearly defines the passage of time is the position of the Dragons' Tear, a deeply violet stain in the color bands, that marches clockwise through the skies. Manifesting as a roaming, racing, raging storm of which the Dragons speak at length, it is said to be where Death itself resides.

Life Source

Without the protective mauve-colored expanded super-corona (known as the Nimbus Nebula) through which Nycos generally passes, life could not exist on thereon. Something irrational, magical, and miraculous keeps life proliferating, despite its impossibility. Even within its cloud tops, within the edge of its turbulent and gravitationally powerful atmosphere, dragons have been seen to fly perpetually on the winds aloft. Observations made of the Dragon's Tear, along with magical images that are captured of it, provide tiny glimpses beyond that shroud, deep inward toward the molten, radioactive surface. Dragons, some that surely must be bigger than castles, drift, soar and glide on the hurricane-force gale of whom the Tear is the eye.

Luck Source

On Terra, we wish on the evening star (here, that usually means Venus, but who's quibbling?) Some cultures choose one or more of the observable stars as "lucky Stars". Others, perhaps more pragmatic, see astrology itself as a means for seeing fate, or destiny, or what have you. "It's all in the stars," they say. On Nycos, however, there is but the one, and for any who believe in Lady Luck, A Guiding Star, or whatever, they all have but the one above - Nimbus - to guide them. So it is that terms of the oath are usually begun with "By Nimbus" or "By the one-eyed Jack of heaven" or other appellation that refers to the ubiquitous Source. And well they should...

Love Source

As in the cases of lovers, the stars are equated with those powers that impact amorousness, ardor, and amity. On overcast days, the shadows of the surface of Nimbus diffracted through the clouds, turn the Tear into a sort of yin-yang heart, the halves intertwining, and offering, at least for a short while, the Heart of Limnis, the mythical maternal Source of the very lifeblood of the world of Nycos. Love and Death, intertwined, the agony and ecstasy culminating, it is said, in The Birth of the World, and the ultimate crushing death of a lover's embrace.

Lore Source

Everything under the sun. That statement enfolds the whole of existence on Nycos. The Eye that sees, the all-illuminating Source is somehow entwined in every story, every tale, every record ever made on the Planet of the Prisms.

Lone Source

If there is a god, a one, true God of Nycos, surely his diadem is Nimbus. Unlike the brilliant and singular light of Helios, the variegated shades and colors that beam down from Nimbus not only is a source, it is THE source of all real power in the world. The powerhouse of energy not only is constant, it is complete, no other is necessary. Having said that, it can only be experienced by comprehending, at least a little, that which drives the fires at its core. One must see the beauty it manifests in the creation to appreciate its utility.

Type

Star