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==Eyes of the Heavens - The Sun and Moon==

Scholars can see that there are many bodies in the heavens.  Beyond the Cracked Shell there are the Great Elementals, the glimmering shapes of the forge-worlds and foundry-worlds that the Elementals used to work the raw materials that they would pour into the world itself, and of course the sun and the moon.

The moon is, in this age, a sad and dimmed husk of what it once was.  The Great Elementals apparently created it as a mirror of the sun's light, a focusing tool that ensured that the elemental energies could bath the world according to their schedule even when the sun was hidden from one side or another.  During the Dawn Age, the work of the Elder Gods in reworking reality's underlying nature ensured that this reflected energy flow was no longer needed.  In the Dawn War itself, it is said that the spirit of the moon, or possibly a nascent Younger God of the moon, or another source now lost, attempted to use the moon's reflected light as a weapon or tool against the Elders.  In retaliation, the Elders themselves punched a metaphysical spike into the moon and the massive well of elemental energy that had collected as a reservoir inside it, and drained it away.

The result was that the moon lost its essential nature; it became lustreless, just a grey sphere.  Its once-smooth, pearly surface cracked and broke, revealing a dusty, drained ruin beneath.  Now the moon's light is pale and lacking in life and vigour.  Almost all the spirits associated with the moon and its maintenance were obliterated in the process.

The sun itself was specifically forged by the Great Elementals as a central energy-source, foundry-flame and reactor at the heart of the system.  Wrought from a maelstrom of all four elements poured together, its light gave heat and life to the world, as they intended.  However, from time to time the sun undergoes a strange phase of activity where one element becomes temporarily dominant, and no-one currently alive is entirely sure whether the Great Elementals intended for this to occur or whether it is a sign of long-term instability in the sun.  When entering an elemental phase, the sun changes colour and appearance slightly - the element in question becomes dominant in the orb, bathing the world in its energies.  During these times, strange phenomena occur.  There are plants and animals that only bloom or appear during an elemental phase; weather systems that react in bizarre manners to the elemental infusion; and patterns of eldritch power that suddenly undergo strange transformations under the sun's eerie gaze.