The Sky

Lasair's Sky

Lasair's night is full of stars, their twinkling filling the midnight blue. The bright orb of a single moon sits heavy in the sky, its nondescript face shining with a pale light that adds a faint glow to the environment. Finally, a thin line of flickering lights is constantly moving across the sky, as if a giant being threw a handful of glittering sand into the night.

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The world upon which Lasair rests orbits a golden-hued star. During the day, this sun sweeps across the blue sky. After it sets, the darkening sky reveals a dense starfield, marked in places with faint clouds of warm orange and cool blue.
A moon with a silver glow moves across the night sky - sometimes visible during the day - its face seemingly clouded. Featureless to sight, shadows appear to move across its face, randomly but interconnected. It reflects the light of the sun, its brightness shifting in slow waves as its relation to star and the world below changes. 
Keeping the moon companion are a string of lights, appearing like stars but much closer. Proceeding across the sky in a thin straight line, these lights are in reality the remains of a second moon that once existed but was destroyed as part of the closing battles of the Dragonscourge. A chunk was pulled down upon what became The Desolation; the rest broke up and formed a faint ring around the world.

Who Knows This?

An Intelligence (History) skill check will bring to mind the following depending on the character's roll:

• DC 5 (Common knowledge):
  The moon is at its brightest once a month; when the moon reaches its brightest point, a new month begins.
• DC 15 (Education covered it):
  The Moon circles the globe once every thirty days; this was the basis of the calendar created by the City-States Region, melding together a number of similar but disparate calendars from the various cities.
• DC 20 (Learned Historian):
  The shadows visible upon the "surface" of the moon are a thick layer of clouds obscuring the true surface. Some Mages of the School of Artifice  have built telescopes to examine the moon, revealing to them the shifting and flowing clouds.
• DC 25 (Subject Matter Expert):
  Fragments of text or of stone ornamentation from the Imperial Era describe a sky with a pair of moons. Orcish ancestor mythology speaks of "the Sun and his two sisters" - even to this day.
• DC 30 (Directly Acquired Knowledge):
  The ring of lights traversing the night sky is made up of the remains of a second moon that once orbited the world. It was destroyed during the Dragonscourge. The impact of a fragment caused mass destruction - the change in tidal forces caused even more.

Notes

• It is possible to view the individual stones that make up the ring through strong Divination magic. Advanced members of that school are often taught to do so as part of earning entrance into the higher levels of their order. The school keeps this as a secret of their initiations - there is little practical use of the knowledge, and the true nature of the ring is not revealed through examination. The remaining moon, however, resists divination magic and remains hidden from all eyes.