Lanian Solar System

The **Lanian Solar System** is the solar system where the planet Lana is located. It plays a great role especially to the Anerian culture, due to the solar system's connection to magic, specifically one of the ten magical disciplines: Astrology. The solar system is named after the planet Lana.

## Selea - The sun

**Selea** is the star that Lana and the other planets of their star system orbit around. Its name is derived from Melerian and simply refers to the celestial light that the earliest humans could see by day, which was believed to give them their energy during the day.

## Balaena - The Moon

**Balaena** is the only natural satellite orbiting the planet of Lana. Its name comes from Melerian and was used to refer to the celestial light visible at night, which was said to aid in sleep, relaxation and rest as well as calming and tranquility. There are likely many more natural satellites in the Lanian solar system, but Anerians generally only care about their planet's own moon.

## The planets

### Viscera - The Wandering Planet

**Viscera** is the planet closest to the star Selea. Its name derives from the Melerian word **visher** meaning "traveler" or "wanderer". This has likely to do with the knowledge that Viscera is the smallest yet fastest of the star system’s planets, so it literally travels the fastest. Many people believe that this planet is somehow responsible for delivering signs and messages from the deities to the humans living on Lana.

### Idena - The Divine Planet

**Idena** is considered the most beautiful of the planets of the solar system. When the planet was first discovered, people believed that it was blessed with a permanent rainbow because it appeared to glow in an iridescent way. After some experiments, it is suspected that the iridescence is a result of a phenomenon called "iridescent clouds" caused by a low density of water droplets in the clouds which is in turn probably the result of strong upper atmospheric winds. Before this was studied, people thought that this planet must be some kind of paradise where resting souls would go after they fulfilled their purpose, which is why its name is derived from Melerian **ydena** meaning "paradise".

### Lana - The Enlightened Planet

**Lana** is a habitable planet with an atmosphere and conditions that are ideal for the creations of the gods, such as different plants and living beings, like animals and humans. It is also the main planet governed by the deities, which is why it was nicknamed the "enlightened planet", the "wise planet" or the "bright planet". Its name is derived from Melerian **lan** meaning "clarity".

### Orvara - The Bloody Planet

**Orvara** is easily recognizable by its bright red colour. Since ancient times, red has been connected to blood, so when this planet was first discovered people thought that it must be a blood-covered planet, which is how it got its name derived from Melerian **orta** meaning "red" and **varon** meaning "blood".

### Rehesa - The Mighty Planet

**Rehesa** is the largest of all the planets and for a long time, people believed that it was a personification of their crimes. They thought that anytime they committed a crime, the planet would lose some of its mass until nothing was left which would result in their whole solar system coming out of balance. Though people now know that this is not the case, it is still often used to warn kids off from committing minor crimes such as lying or stealing. The name is derived from Melerian **rehes** meaning "power", "might" or "weight".

### Dolina - The Bejeweled Planet

**Dolina** is another planet easily recognized by the strange ring circling it. Through a collaboration between specialists in the fields of Astrology and Artifice, it was discovered that the ring is actually made of moondust from the planet’s many moons. Since then, a special task of some Artifice-related occupations is the extraction of moondust which is then brought to Lana and used for various magical purposes. Moondust is rather rare, since the extraction takes a while but the planet has enough moons and moondust to last them for several thousand years. The name was derived from Melerian **doly** meaning "ring".

### Yhsola - The Frozen Planet

**Yhsola** was the first planet that made people aware of the existence of ice planets which is why it was soon named after the Melerian word **ysold**, meaning "ice". From a distance, it appears to be a light blue colour and studying the planet has shown that it comes with some special features compared to the other planets, such as a regular diamond rain and northern lights appearing all over the planet.

### Laenia - The Thunderous Planet

**Laenia** is a planet almost entirely covered in water and ice, giving it its signature bright blue colour. Another feature that can be observed are wandering dark spots, that are probably high pressure storms in the planet’s atmosphere. The planet is also known to have the strongest storms in the whole galaxy, which is how it got its name, derived from Melerian **leiny** meaning "thunder".

### Coria - The Mortal Planet

**Coria** is the smallest of all the solar system’s planets. For a long time, people were only aware that it existed yet not how it looked and it took a lot of different artifacts to be able to finally see the planet. Only then did it get its name, derived from Melerian **coria** meaning "heart", because of a large heart shape on the planet’s surface, that has been discovered to be a large heart-shaped sea filled with poisonous water and ice.