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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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