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World Building – Sarilo Star System Tapestry

I’ve been slowly writing and adding to my campaign world setting, I only really work on this when it’s late at night or if I’m very tired. The latest piece I’ve finished up is a solar system map. I decided to start right from the top and work my way down. So I had a feel for the Planets rotational period and year length etc I worked up a Solar System Map and a few Planetary Statistics:

Above is the Original image I assembled using elements from a few different NASA photos and images that NASA have made freely available. The planets are obviously not spaced out to any kind of scale. I’ve made the Sarilo System a dual Habitable planet system, although to start with I’ll only be detailing the Planet of Etena. Once I had the above created I ran it through a few filters to try and get a tapestry effect:

It’s not perfect but it does give the impression of a tapestry, I should have really added some aging like holes and ragged edges, but as it’s supposed to be a one of kind tapestry made by a famous Astromagus. It should be well looked after and protected so aging didn’t seem very appropriate. I pulled together rough statistics for each planet:

Name Sihnon Etena Ilvaya (ilvaya) Ceninia Onayel Aran Tevasi
Position 1st Planet 2nd Planet 3rd Planet 4th Planet 5th Planet 6th Planet 7th Planet
Type Hot Gas Giant Terrestrial (Life) Terrestrial (Life) Frozen/Ice Gas Giant Liquid Gas Barren Rock
Distance from Star 0.41 AU 1.24 AU 1.76 AU 3.2 AU 5.1AU 8.5AU 12 AU
Diameter (KM)
Day Length 7.5 hours 26 hours 27 hours 66 hours 16 hours 13.5 hours 350 hours
Days a Year 304 Sihnon Days 465 Etena Days 757 Hyrokkin Days 759 Ceninia Days 6306 Onayel Days 16081 Aran Days 1040 Tevasi Days
Equiv Earth Days 95 504 852 2090 4204 9045 15173
Moons 0 2 5 1 16 8 0
Rings 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

Assuming I’ve understood it correctly I used Keplers third law to calculate Orbital timeframes and I included an equivalency back to earth days. I realize using Keplers third law wont be a 100% accurate as I’m pretty much assuming that the Sarilo System is then the same as our Solar system but I figure for a Fantasy game setting it should be fine. The other figures are all made up, I’m still working on the Planetary Diameters, need to be a little more careful with those.

As I don’t get to GM very much (or at all any more) and I really enjoy world building I’m just going to do this Campaign world building project as something fun to do when I feel like it. I will continue to add to the world and will make posts here of anything of note. I have begun to upload some of the Info to a wiki but I’m not quiet ready to post the URL as it’s very empty at this stage :).

I’ll get back to Mayhem city and Hinterland builds.

(The layout of my image above was based on this one, although mines a very poor imitation 🙂 . I believe it appeared in or on a magazine cover at some point)


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