The Sea of Stars - Constellations [lowres] (Patreon)

“The Sea of Stars is both a nocturnal phenomenon occurring around the moon, way up in the skies in the center of Nasij, and well, the area itself. The Sea is called so as the atmosphere at night becomes more and more dense and liquid the higher up you go. 

The Stars themselves, organized by shapes of “constellations”, are very likely to be more than pretty light sources but, as firstly, they’re located in an extremely hostile environment and two, said environment is five hundred or so sahks above our collective heads, gathering any form of data is nigh on impossible. But at least we have dozens of constellation charts !

How do we know of the atmosphere’s composition then, you might ask ? Simple ! Sometimes (rarely) at night, a star and what liquid atmosphere surrounds it drifts low enough to be examined before its very fast melting. When I say “low enough” you still have to be in the tallest points of Nasij where the atmosphere is getting denser, so not for the faint of heart.

The day I can hold a star is the day I can die happy.” 

• Albe Ombrelune, Al-Katib al-Awwal