the Cloud
Gilgurth's Cloud
The Gilgurth's Cloud often just known as 'the Cloud', is a massive field of dust, rocks, and debris in Alan. Modern astronomy understands it is created by an anomaly in the fabric of Alanspace where the Anon (Magic) is seemly corrupted. The anomaly is a stationary location within the Celestial Cycle rotation disk. It is unaffected by gravity or other physical or magical phenomena. Every 600 years one of the two stars Juva or Uatu pass through the Cloud.
As Juva, a supercharged Solanon entity, passes through, magic throughout Alanspace is dampened as the Cloud absorbs the energy Juva is emitting. The Cloud also weakens Juva's gravity field, which often leads to dust and rocks from the stars asteroid belts, known as Juva's Belt, being left behind, trapped in the Cloud. When Uatu passes through the star absorbs Solanon energy left by Juva. This increases the amount of magical energy with it, and on its orbiting planet Aldern. Aldern also often is hit by some of the debris left by Juva.
Aldern the passing through the Cloud is a mark for scholars and astronomers of the begin date of each Celestial Cycle. Each of the ages of the world ends impacts that occur every 1200 years. The greatest of these was the Gilgurth of 1200pre-sc which nearly wiped out life on Aldern.
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