Hehoram

The fourth *planet* from the star AR101, **Hehoram**, is the only object known to harbor life. Although the **AR101 System** contains large quantities of water, Hehoram is the second planet to sustain liquid surface water, just behind Idelia. In contrast to Hehoram's polar ice, lakes, and rivers, 65% of its surface is covered by the ocean. Hehoram's remaining 35% surface is land, consisting of continents and islands. The surface layer of Hehoram is formed from several slowly moving tectonic plates, which interlock to form mountain ranges, volcanoes, and earthquakes. It is the liquid outer core of Hehoram that generates the magnetic field that shapes the magnetosphere of Hehoram, which deflects destructive solar winds away from the planet.﻿

Nitrogen and oxygen make up most of Hehoram's atmosphere. As a result of atmospheric and ocean circulation, tropical regions receive more solar energy than polar regions. Most of the planet is covered by clouds formed by water vapor in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, traps a part of AR101's energy close to the surface. Climate is determined by latitude, elevation, and proximity to oceans that moderate it. Almost every region experiences severe weather, including tropical cyclones, thunderstorms, and heatwaves.

Hehoram's continents are: Anzora, Asteria, East Anzora, Hedila, Ereletia, Kalendia, Kartolonia.

## Etymology

The modern Denlish word Hehoram developed, via Middle Denlish, from an Old Denlish noun most often spelled heoram. It has cognates in every Epediana language, and their ancestral root has been reconstructed as \*hero. In its earliest attestation, the word heoram was already being used to translate the many senses of Satrin Nerra and Zathuse Narasa: the ground, its soil, dry land, the human world, the surface of the world (including the sea), and the globe itself. As with Satrin Nerra/Nerrus and Zathuse Narasa, Hehoram may have been a personified goddess in Epediana paganism: late Norse mythology included Heorm ('Hehoram'), a giantess often given as the mother of Thor.

Historically, hehoram has been written in lowercase. From early Middle Denlish, its definite sense as "the globe" was expressed as the hehoram. By the era of Early Modern Denlish, capitalization of nouns began to prevail, and hehoram was also written hehoram, particularly when referenced along with other heavenly bodies. More recently, the name is sometimes simply given as Earth, by analogy with the names of the other planets, though hehoram and forms with the remain common. House styles now vary: Verenfard spelling recognizes the lowercase form as the most common, with the capitalized form an acceptable variant. "Hehoram" is capitalized when used as a name (for example, "Hehoram's atmosphere"), but it is written in lowercase when it is preceded by the (for example, "Hehoram's atmosphere"). Almost always it appears in lowercase when used in colloquial expressions like "what on hehoram are you doing"?"

Science fiction writers occasionally refer to humanity's inhabited planet as Nera, while poets refer to it as Nerrus, the personification of Hehoram. Nerra is also the name of the planet in some Romance languages (languages that evolved from Satrin) like Noraiji and Kertish, while in other Romance languages the word gave rise to names with slightly altered spellings (like the Valdese Nerrius and the Kertish Neera). The Satrinated form Narasa of the Zathuse poetic name Narasa is rare, though the alternative spelling Narasa has become common due to the Narasa hypothesis, in which case its pronunciation is Nayrasasha rather than the more classical Denlish Narasa.