The Composition: The Conjugans
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:47 pm
A separate post for the star systems that surround Ajjamah (the world where Salvi is found), their inhabitants, and their magical systems.
The Miser Crabs: Jazz Harmony
INTRODUCTION
The planet Ajjamah is unique, to be sure; it orbits at a decent distance from its parent star, it has liquid water and plenty of oxygen, it has life, and it has magic. But it is not the only world to have these things. Magic, in this corner of the cosmos, is rather persistent. And there are plenty of other worlds where the energy given off by the suns (giant incubators, as it were) has led to some rather...unique situations.
Ajjamah is a long, long way from developing a space program of its own, let alone one with the means to venture out into the cosmos and meet any of these creatures. But that doesn’t mean they’re not out there, nor that they shouldn’t be explored in their own time.
Ladies, Gentlemen, Miscellaneous, and Those Without Any Concept of Sexual Reproduction At All: welcome to the Composition.
There are a few places one might visit first:
1. A water-world with a few paltry islands, and enormous ten-limbed octopus-like beings who have hyper-specialized magical abilities and tend to live alone (in large part because mating kills off both parents; it’s therefore useful to invest in plenty of aunts and uncles).
2. A planet with a very high axial tilt (79º) and very complex tides (four small moons), with creatures that alternate, generation after generation, between animal-like and plant-like forms and a yin-yang switch between magical types.
3. A desert world, with very little water (except for the huge cave systems and polar ice caps) and a highly eccentric orbit, inhabited by intelligent slime moulds.
4. A rocky planet, like Earth but less dense, with a fast-rotating atmosphere and weather phenomena that can last for months at a time; the primary sapients are ten-limbed dragonfly-serpents with eight sexes and breath that shapes spells.
Let your interstellar tour guides know!
The Miser Crabs: Jazz Harmony
INTRODUCTION
The planet Ajjamah is unique, to be sure; it orbits at a decent distance from its parent star, it has liquid water and plenty of oxygen, it has life, and it has magic. But it is not the only world to have these things. Magic, in this corner of the cosmos, is rather persistent. And there are plenty of other worlds where the energy given off by the suns (giant incubators, as it were) has led to some rather...unique situations.
Ajjamah is a long, long way from developing a space program of its own, let alone one with the means to venture out into the cosmos and meet any of these creatures. But that doesn’t mean they’re not out there, nor that they shouldn’t be explored in their own time.
Ladies, Gentlemen, Miscellaneous, and Those Without Any Concept of Sexual Reproduction At All: welcome to the Composition.
There are a few places one might visit first:
1. A water-world with a few paltry islands, and enormous ten-limbed octopus-like beings who have hyper-specialized magical abilities and tend to live alone (in large part because mating kills off both parents; it’s therefore useful to invest in plenty of aunts and uncles).
2. A planet with a very high axial tilt (79º) and very complex tides (four small moons), with creatures that alternate, generation after generation, between animal-like and plant-like forms and a yin-yang switch between magical types.
3. A desert world, with very little water (except for the huge cave systems and polar ice caps) and a highly eccentric orbit, inhabited by intelligent slime moulds.
4. A rocky planet, like Earth but less dense, with a fast-rotating atmosphere and weather phenomena that can last for months at a time; the primary sapients are ten-limbed dragonfly-serpents with eight sexes and breath that shapes spells.
Let your interstellar tour guides know!