"THE LAND OF THE WORD"

ETYMA

PLANET & SYSTEM

A Fantasy world that follows Sci-fi rules, Etyma is a planet-sized moon, saturated in an array of biomes and sentient life so diverse that it is surreal. This moon, orbited by the many dead husks of wrecked interstellar ships (some so large, many of the onlooking eyes have bid their mouths praise these sights as divine beings of personality), orbits, itself, around two giant gas planets via unstable lemniscate orbit (figure-eight), tide-locked either to Cyssian (the kisser) by its North, or tide-locked to Forte (the hugger) by its South. The former has a giant, lip-like hurricane storm near its centre (like Jupiter), while the latter has a multitude of rings (like Saturn). These gas giants, themselves, orbit, individually, their own, (relatively) close stars, Easel (a blue, sun-like star) and Aisle (a red dwarf), which, themselves, slowly pull each other, round and round, in a (very) slow dance.

SEASONAL CHANGES

Such extreme shifts in gravitational pull create massive shifts in tide, thought it only changes during the long summer, which occurs when Etyma is exchanged between gas giants, and with removal of the gas giant's protective magnetic fields, becomes intensely, seasonally hot. During this transitional period, the tide shifts, though it is imperceptibly slow. Winters on Etyma are experienced when the moon-planet sits farthest from the centre of its lemniscate, and thus has two winters (and two springs, and two autumns), and one long summer.