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Astel Aventad (Planet #3012)
By: AuroraDash Date: June 5, 2021, 11:32 am
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Like a year ago, Charlie said on CSTSF that I could make a new
planet for Serenth's Apocalyptic Wind Tower, with a planetary ID
of greater than 2100, and I kinda never bothered with that until
now, so... Here you go I guess. It's inspired by some wild
dreams I had many years ago.
Name: Astel Aventad
ID: 3012
Sage Goddess: Claiyfoure (there are no regular Sages, she is the
only one)
Adjective: Astellyan
Continents: 1
Countries: 0
Size: 1.45 Newerth diameters
The Graveworld of Astel Aventad is an inhospitable rocky planet,
somewhat larger than Newerth. It was shrouded in myth until it
was located in a remote corner of Serenth. It is covered in
ancient Elven ruins, but now most of the planet is devoid of
life.
MYTHOLOGY:
For a long time, it was only known about through the Arx
mythology, a vast collection of insane stories about the distant
past of Newerth, most of them entirely made up. One story claims
that, some 300,000 years ago, Astel Aventad was "the city
between the worlds". A later story claims that, in eons past,
Newerth was part of an alliance of five friendly planets, all of
which were part of a "great migration" across the universe.
However, Newerth started to slowly be affected by a creeping
magical corruption. Eight heroes travelled to some cave, which
happened to be the most evil place on Newerth, in order to fight
the corruption, but they failed. They did, however, find the
source of the corruption – a human who had been granted the
powers of a god, but could not handle it and went mad. He used
his god powers to take the other four planets in the alliance
and fuse them together to form the "holy homeworld" – a terrible
molten planet which was a bastion of tremendous evil. The name
Astel Aventad was re-used for this planet. One of the surviving
heroes went there to find a place called the Stone Heart of
Energy.
The planet was believed to be fictional, until it was discovered
in 2003. The story is still made up, of course – the planet is
now known to be entirely natural in origin.
CONTINENTS:
Astel Aventad only has a single continent. It has no name and
uses continent ID 0.
LOCATIONS:
The planet is divided into two main regions.
The Face is a roughly circular region of pale brown rock and
sand, covering approximately 1/6 of Astel Aventad's surface. It
has several vast mountain ranges, which do indeed look kind of
like a face if you squint a little. The vast majority of the
remaining land-based life on Astel Aventad exists in The Face.
Locations here include the Stone Heart of Energy, whatever that
is, and a few recently-constructed research stations.
The Flats covers the majority of the planet and consists of a
smooth, dark stone surface, ranging from black to red-brown. It
is the remains of a prehistoric sea of lava, which slowly froze.
In some places, a shallow ocean covers it. The Flats are rich in
eternium. Life has survived in the ocean, but the land in The
Flats is mostly desolate. This area contains many ancient ruins,
some of which are quite extensive. It is thought that these were
built by an Elven race, who arrived from off-planet, and were
equipped to survive the harsh conditions of Astel Aventad, until
the civilisation was destroyed by an unknown disaster. These
people were called the Moon Elves, but they are believed to be
extinct. In case they are not, they have been given racial ID
3920.
Somewhere on the planet stands Serenth's Apocalyptic Wind Tower.
SEASONS:
Various scientists and explorers still disagree on how to define
the seasons of Astel Aventad because the Moon Elven calendar is
not well understood. It is known that the Astellyan year is
approximately equal to twelve Newerthian years.
According to one popular model, there are four different systems
of seasons in play in different parts of the planet. The seasons
are of wildly unequal length. There are 8 seasons near the
equator, 7 seasons near the poles, and two separate regions of 9
and 11 seasons covering the remaining areas. In some regions,
seasons can be up to several Newerthian years long.
DAY/NIGHT CYCLE:
Astel Aventad has days of roughly seven hours. There are exactly
15,000 days in an Astellyan year. Most of the planet experiences
midnight sun, however, so the sun may not rise or set for very
long spans of time.
CURRENCY:
The only currencies in use are brought from off-world. The Moon
Elves may have had a currency at some point, however.
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