Starry Heavens

 

The Ymirean heavens gyre not only with sun and moons, but also with multitudes of stars. In the main, their light is white, but some glow blue, purple, red, orange, yellow or green.

Astrologers have divided the stars into five classes:

 

Fixed stars

These stars have permanents abodes in the heavens, such as the Twin North Stars, which sits "underneath Boreas's brow" and are also known as "Aule's Eyes". Fixed stars are a great boon to navigation.

 

Dexer stars

These stars circle the world's disk in a rightwise fashion. The ten star signs are all constellations of dexter stars.

 

Sinister stars

Circle the world's disk widdershins.

 

"Vagabond" stars

Vagabonds may gyre rightwise or widdershins, and a few reverse their direction regularly or irregularly, most notorious of these is the Twinkler.

 

Ephemeral stars

The ephemera constitute shooting stars, comets, and other irregularities.