Planets and Like Bodies of the Beta Persei System

Listed in order of closest proximity to the three suns of Beta Persei

Avizkalsha - "Orb of the Fire Spirits"

A small, superheated, rocky, and metallic sphere in nearest orbit to Beta Persei; it is said to be inhabited by energy and mineral beings. One face of Avizkalsha is always facing the three suns and is a sea of molten matter with a superheated maelstrom of plasma above it, while the other side is cool and dark enough to have an actual crust. At the prime meridian between endless "night" and "day" molten rivers pierce into the dark half while islands break off and float into the hot half to melt.

Kiathut - "The Unceasing Tempest"

A planet roughly the same size as Algol. Kiathut is a water world with a hot atmosphere of constant cloudy, lashing hurricanes. The only landmasses are a few storm-carved spires and two small polar continents of barren stone mountains gashed with deep foggy canyons.

Emerald Mists of Kyaxyl

A massive disk-shaped gaseous cloud in orbit ketween Kiathut and Algol. Kyaxyl is composed of moist breathable gasses thick with aerial plankton and algae interspersed with small planetoids and huge masses of thick vegetation.

Planet Algol

Algol and its three moons are detailed here.

Iagdhir "The Frozen Hell"

A large frozen planet, Iagdhir has a decades long day-night cycle with one pole in constant sunlight and the other in endless night. The "noon" portion of Iagdhir experiences a "bloom" in algae and lichens, the only vegetation of the planet, with animal life either following this bloom in a constant migration or hibernating during the decades between blooms. During the years-long "night" the surface of the night-time portion of Iagdhir gets so cold that the atmosphere actually freezes.

Vurxabt "The Behemoth", "The Outer Worlds"

A massive lurid gas giant with several small moons, Virxabt has a dense metallic core with crushing gravitation and atmospheric pressure. Not much is known of Vurxabt or its moons, which themselves are the subject of all sorts of outlandish fables and stories.

Iajuxxa - "The Ever Sucking Mouth", "The Great Unmaker"

The furthest major body orbiting Beta Persei, Iajuxxa consists of a small black hole surrounded by a gaseous aura of dark matter. There are prophecies that aeons in the future it will devour Algol, and tales tell of vaults located in orbit about Iajuxxa within the dark matter where time passes slowly.

Introduction to Planet Algol, it's Satellites and Suns

ALGOL

An Earth-like planet orbiting the 3 suns of the Beta Persei system. Compared to Earth, Algol has: Lower gravity. Denser atmosphere. Smaller oceans. A very much slower, or nonexistent rate of continental drift. A much thicker crust that is honeycombed with tunnels and massive chambers, both natural and artificial. 3 moons: Ninev, Zhoxx and Thoggyu.

Algol has regions that differ wildly with the rest of the planet regarding gravity, atmosphere (or the presence thereof!), seasons, weather, radiation, and other factors. Much of this seems to be the legacy of a planet-wide cataclysmic conflict, which seems to have ruined or warped much of the world rendering a sizable portion of the surface into wasteland.

Algol is much older than Earth, and has had life and intelligent inhabitants for far longer. Over the billions of years, many races and civilizations, both native and alien, have inhabited Algol, leaving the legacy of their sorcery and science scattered across the planet. Many of the alien races that have inhabited Algol brought flora and fauna from their home worlds or dimensions.

Over billions of years many strange varieties of life have arose on the world, many the result of the strange energies and radiations of the planet or the experimentation of ancients, scientists and sorcerers.

Earth plant and animal species, not only from the present but from every era of the planet, exist on Algol, such as trilobites, dinosaurs, smilodons and humans. Over the millennia in the weird environments of Algol many of those species have developed along strange evolutionary paths as well and there are many different races of man that are, despite being wholly human, are radically different in appearance to Earth men, possessing strange coloration or features such as crests, webbed digits, scaled skin, or other such things strange to our earth sensibilities.

BETA PERSEI

The solar system that Algol is located in is Beta Persei. The 3 suns of Beta Persei are the blue-white Ghoul Queen, closely orbited by the the small white Gorgon's Eye and orbited further out by the large, orange Fire Demon; blotched with sunspots and bearing a halo of fiery gases. Years on Algol are measured by the rotation of the Fire Demon around the Ghoul Queen, which takes 681 years. An Algol day is approximately the same length as an Earth day, and Algol Men use a 7 day week and 28 day month, their years have 24 months with an additional 9 day festival week at year's end.

NINEV

The closest of Algol's moons, a fuzzy silvery-gray and reputed to be home to a race of gods. Ninev is visible during the day.

THOGGYU

The most distant of Algol's moons, shrouded in darkness and of accursed reputation. Thoggyu is the smallest moon and is only discernable by the stars it blots out.

ZHOXX

One of Algol's moons, it's orbit lies between Ninev and Thoggyu. Zhoxx resembles Earth's moon in appearance and coloration, is larger than Ninev and visible during daytime.