Cosmology

Cosmology, Astrology and Astronomy are inextricable on Prasinos. It is generally understood that the gods are out there, and very few people would contend that the positions of the stars and planets play no role in everyday life.

Some interpretations of cosmology go so far as to argue that the patterns made by the positions of the stars and planets literally are the gods, and that the names and characters we know them by are only aspects of beings much more complex than we could understand.

The common person makes little distinction between the idea of outer gods and local gods and would simply refer to most of the entities catalogued here as “gods”.

Outer gods are supernatural beings who primarily exist outside Prasinos and who seem to communicate across great distances with their followers on Prasinos, or who are known to exist on Prasinos as Avatars¹⁾.

Bahamut is a well known outer god. His true nature is unclear but he appears in visions and dreams. In the rare occasion that one encounters Bahamut in person, they would most likely be encountering an avatar; if that avatar were destroyed Bahamut himself would continue to exist.

While it is possible for an outer god to be destroyed or otherwise disappear, this is only known to have happened by being usurped by other outer gods. It is not generally assumed that a mortal could pose a fatal threat to an outer god.

Local gods are supernatural beings or in some cases ascended natural beings who exist on Prasinos. These entities may have been placed on Prasinos for some purpose by an outer god, or ascended mortality through exposure to unique circumstances.

Coriander is an example of a well known local god. He physically inhabits the body of a wolf, and appears to have become immortal by a boon from Correlon. While he is ageless it is presumed that if that body were destroyed, Coriander would cease to exist.

Prasinos is an Earth-like planet with two moons and an exaggerated elliptical orbit, and very little axial tilt. Because of the low axial tilt, days on Prasinos are generally the same length year round, with sunrise and sunset times influenced by your position on the surface; the sun rises and sets at 6am and 6pm at the equator, and neither rises nor sets at all at the poles.

The solstices in the Prasinos calendar represent the extremes of the orbit rather than the longest or shortest days, and the equinoxes are the points halfway through the orbit where the distance to the sun is equal.

Its seasons are a function of distance from the sun, so unlike Earth the north and south hemispheres experience seasons the same way.

There are six planets in Prasinos's system, in order from the sun: Mathis, Atrode, Prasinos, Wan, Botrede, and Centa.

Constellations associated with the Ring of Dragon tend to be most visible in the southern hemisphere, and the Ring of Aspect is most visible from the north.