Goedire

Cloud decks are all that is visible of Goedire from Wildspace. In fact, the entirety of the size F planet is layered clouds of water vapour: fluffy white, all the way down. The clouds tend to form in distinct strata, at levels where varying temperature and pressure coincide to make good cloud-forming conditions. Any clouds forming at intermediate levels are quickly dispersed by shearing winds, or are carried along with the rising or falling air currents that circulate between cloud decks. These decks do, however, shift in altitude over time, and are in constant flux, though seasonal trends can be detected. These decks are not solid cloud, instead behaving similarly to earth-planet clouds: often revealing a brilliant blue sky to those underneath, even through multiple layers of cloud. Rainstorms are frequent, and feed the cloud decks below them, meaning the lower one gets into the atmosphere of Goedire, the thicker the clouds become, and the more often rain falls. The lower reaches of the planet, the "core", are perpetually shrouded in gloomy storm clouds, circulating and recirculating their water, and lit by near-constant lightning. It is rare for the core clouds to be visible from orbit, due to the many overlapping cloud decks above it.
Unique among the planets of Sirelspace, Goedire has a planetary ring. It is a thin plane of mostly water, lying on Goedire's ecliptic. The ring, on average, lies between 1,000 and 10,000 miles from the planet's upper atmosphere, giving it an outside radius of roughly 27,000 miles, while it is less than 10 miles thick in most places. (Being a massive structure of water, standing waves and localized disturbences can cause its thickness, and width, to vary hugely over time.) Orbital stresses mostly keep the ring in liquid form, but "icebergs" of remarkable size form all the time, especially in the depths of standing waves during equinoxes, where the sun's light can't penetrate. If these icebergs are hollowed out quickly enough, they can form useful bits of solid "land" within the ring, and often become the core of extensive construction. Otherwise, their buoyancy forces them to the inside edge of the ring, where they either melt away, or, if a wave brings them "high" enough, pop out of the ring to rain down on Goedire.

Fauna & Flora

The fauna of Goedire are adapted to the eternal sky of the planet; all native life is capable of self-powered flight, usually by possession of wings, though the largest natives are blimp-like behemoths, and stranger modes of flight are known.
The ring is home to a multitude of freshwater fish and freefloating algae and higher plants. The plants filter the ring's water for any impurities they can use, keeping the water fresh despite the particulate matter (and larger chunks) it contains, and soak up the plentiful sunlight. A handful of intelligent aquatic races also live there, mostly isolated from each other by the vastness of their home. Major inhabitants include locathah, merfolk, ixitxachitl, scrags, and merrow, and there are rumours of morkoth in the deeps. More recent immigrants, tritons have slipped through elemental rifts, and a small group of koalinth are supposedly deserters from the Goblinoid Fleets. The ring is large enough that any freshwater-dwelling race might exist there, hidden from its neighbours by distance. Some creatures, with enough of a mastery of elemental magic, manage to stabilize an iceberg on the inner edge of the ring, preventing it from melting away and using it as an island to build on, either for use by air-breathing folk, or trade between the water-breathers and air-breathers.

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