HeWhoSpeaksOfDarkness/Astronomy

This page has my musings on Astronomy

How does the Sun move? What is day and night?

basically I see two options here one with a sort of weird sub option:

• The sun rises up from somewhere in the far west and sets somewhere in the far east. This has the advantage in that there are these physical places in the far east and west that people can go to for some reason. But how dose the sun get from the east to the west during the night? Dose he rise in the skies of the underworld and go form the west to east each night or storm through the caves in the bottom of the world, or dose he just envelop himself in clouds that then vanish only to reappear in his manse of the west.
  • the wierd sub option is to have the sun set in the south and rise in the south this is almost too wierd, but is kinda cool becaus then you can have like a Palace where the sun lives during the night.
• the world isn't flat but a gently sloping cone and sun circles around the Imperial Mountain each day- even if we make just the Blessed Isle a cone its shadow might be enough to cast night across creation. The best thing about this one is that it make the Blessed Isle the true the axel that the world revolves around, but in the end this one is more mundane than the other options (and even if the sun doesn?t do this the night sky will in my games).
• The sun bobs up and down in the sky, approaching close to the Imperial Mountain, then moving far away until it vanishes at the zenith. This is bad because Dawn and Dusk don't really mean anything, but it does mean that you can have odd things like timepieces that measure the hour by the length of shadows, and they're long at midday and short at twilight. (willows)

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thats cool willows because its just strange - HeWhoSpeaksOfDarkness

One possibility is that the sun rises in the south during the months of fire the east during thet months of wood and so on. This does however leave the question of where does the sun rise from during the 3 months of earth and calibration. Tyrrell

The really logical thing, though it would change the setting some, would be the Egyptian solution--during the night, the Sun passes through the Underworld back to its starting point, while the nasty things down in the dark try to screw with it. -- JohnBiles

Magic. -NegativeBurn