The Moons and the Months

The lunar bodies most calendars are based on

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The Artisan found a perfect piece of jade and polished it for her lover, the Sun. When it got scratched and cracked on her way to gift it she was ashamed, but the Sun loved it so much they set it as a second moon in the sky.

— An abbreviated Gnomish fable

Kyre has two moons orbiting it, but it wasn't always this way. Dreun the Red watched the world since its beginning, and was only joined by Lonn the Green within the span of written history. Their irregular orbits make tidal cycles a little complicated for coastal dwellers to deal with.

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Differences & Significances

Dreug, the the visually smaller moon, glows with a rusty red hue. It is splotched with white and dark areas, and is pocked with many craters. It makes one orbit every 24 days, and is used for the months in most calendars. Lonn shines with a pale green color and is marred by cracks that look like scratches, but has hardly any craters. It laps Kyre in a shorter time of 16 days.

Each lunar body has developed different cultural significances around the world, but in many Lonn is unlucky because its appearance in the sky coincided with the appearance of the wild spiles and torrents of monsters that led to a global collapse of civilization. According to astrology around Thundermaw, the power of whatever constellation the green moon covers is temporarily lessened. For example, children born when it crosses the constellation of Maleeha the First Healer are thought to be more prone to illness.

The names for these moons in common were derived from the The Brazen Order gods Dreug and Loena.

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Calendars

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Kyre's moons by Cuttlesquish

Alternative Name(s)

The red moon and green moon

Type

Planetoid / Moon

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