Velthuryn Details

The Planet Itself

Velthuryn drifts around the copper-gold blaze of Solivar in a slow, deliberate turn, giving rise to the realm’s signature 36-hour longbright - eighteen hours of mounting daylight followed by eighteen hours of cooling deepglow. During the longbright, Solivar’s extended arc bakes the skylands in steady warmth; barkstone orchards swell with resin-rich fruit, and tide-lilies along the saltmarsh rims open and close in unhurried rhythms. As deepglow settles, fog gathers in silver coils across the lowlands, glowshroom caverns glitter like inverted starfields, and griefglass veins pulse faintly with mirrored moonfire. Within the Prism-Forum of Aurex, heliomancers etch Solivar’s eccentric waltz into brass ephemerides, arguing that the sun’s shifting distance tugs subtly at the planet’s mantle. Meanwhile, the Way-singers of Nokhul Vale claim the length of each deepglow grants spirits time to murmur through root and stone before the next longbright stirs the world awake again.

Once Solivar dips beneath the Mellheiller horizon, Tasserin and Cassanda divide the darkness in their resonant dance. Tasserin, the elder moon, broad and pale-gold, crosses the heavens in a stately sixty-day circuit, its storm-veined face earning it the title the Memory Mirror in Thirasil lore. Cassanda, the swifter and smaller companion, completes two orbits in that same span, streaking ember-bright across the firmament in a quickened cadence that lights griefglass ridgelines and calls forth resonance squalls along the Scorval coast. When the moons align in the rare Sisters’ Embrace, Cassanda’s shadow trims a crescent from Tasserin’s face, sending shifting veils of darkness skimming across the seas.

See the Calendar And Time page for details about the world's calendar, time-keeping system, and special days.

Climate

Velthuryn’s breath moves with its waters. Westerly winds sweep moisture across the Waters of Tunneau, greening the coasts of Lexharrow and Sunlash Coast. Trade winds off Mellheiller thunder north into the Spires and Rise, their spent rains falling soft upon Myrrun Hollow. Cold surges from the Smithsoll Sea carry brine and storm into Torral and Velkar’s north coasts, while the Bangrave Sea’s warm tides knit east and west together. Between mountain and sea, biomes shift rapidly: taiga belts fade into orchid-draped jungles; deserts lie ringed by grassland mosaics; wetlands stretch where estuaries meet volcanic loam. The land itself is restless, reshaped by tectonic pulses and Aethergrave fractures that hum with violet resonance.

History

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The History of Velthuryn page has a more detailed history of the world