Aerill (planet)

**Aerill** (ɛrɪl) is the name of a fictional Earthlike planet created by Lukas of MonsterBrainSoup.com and the focus of this wikia.

### Physical characteristics & orbit

Aerill is 81.72% the size of Earth, with a longer orbit path around its star. Aerill has slightly lower gravity than Earth. Aerill has a very subtle axial tilt compared to Earth, and has milder weather all year.

Aerill is approximately 10,424 kilometers (6,477 miles) in diameter at the equator.

An Aerillian day is 18 Earth hours long.

Each Aerillian year is broken into five seasons based on the dominant moon in the sky over the city of Cressent.

### Moons

Aerill possesses five concentric rings of small natural satellites and interplanetary dust, collectively known as **the Shatter**,believed to be the remains of a "twin" planet from a former binary planet system. There are 5 large true moons, 15 large satellites, two dozen mid-sized satellites, and three dozen or more small satellites; there are more than 75 total permanent natural satellites orbiting Aerill.

* **Terlem**, associated with reincarnation, silence, spirituality, decay, precipitation, and winter.
* **Juen**, associated with youth, early puberty, spring, flowers, self-discovery, and sexuality. This is considered the time of year to reinvent oneself, much like the Terran new year.
* **Zeir**, associated with late puberty and early adulthood, fertility, heat, warmth, fire, and conflict. This is considered a time when pregnancies are often announced, and when conflicts come to a head.
* **Ayes**, associated with mid-life, late summer, harvest, long-term romance and family. This is considered the time when marriages take place, and a time to celebrate and honor one's family.
* **Maik**, associated with old age, autumn, death, and slumber.

Aerill's equatorial region is subject to frequent meteor showers, though they are generally too small to survive to land as meteorites. Meteorite ore is highly valued.

Many of the larger satellites, clearly visible to the naked eye from the planet's surface, have names and occupy positions in various myths.

### People

See Races.

The denizens of Aerill consist of humans, immigrants from Earth, and multiple native sentient races. Humans are considered the dominant race of Aerill simply in number. What Terrans may think of as "normal humans" are referred to as earthfolk on Aerill. There are also several magically-induced human sub-species with highly specialized adaptation traits, such as seafolk, with aquatic traits, and skyfolk with flight-based traits. Most Aerillian humans accept these sub-species as equally "human" to earthfolk, and discrimination between subsets of humans is rare and often highly disapproved of. Ethnicity is independent of subspecies; the adapted peoples of Aerill are just as likely to be of any skin tone, build, or descent as traditional earthfolk.

The non-human races of Aerill are largely secluded and secretive, with long-standing traditions and isolate cultures. Nonhuman races are not often found among the human cities and trade routes of Aerill, and there is considerable discrimination between humans and non-humans. Direct antagonism is rare, but there is notable, widespread human fear of the Night-Eyes and Avari peoples.

Greengears are an artificial human-created race of sentient plant-machine hybrids.

Certain cultures of Aerill consider the phantom-like Therials to be an equally valid race, or even multiple races, as corporeal beings.

### History

See History of Aerill.

Aerill is a world shaped by numerous anomalous or supernatural happenings, rather than war and industry. The presence of the Shatter is in itself an anomaly, along with the habitability of Aerill's surface.

Humans did not exist on Aerill until an event known as "The Bridge" occurred during the Bridge Era.