The God Planet

Artwork by Chris Kapp

The entity in our universe from which all else came into being.

Unlike any other body of the universe, the God Planet has a unique shape and form.

The planet is made up of several floating continents and a multitude of islands.  These bodies of land are surrounded by a circular “bubble” of atmosphere which, from space, gives them the appearance of being surrounded by a force field.

The main continents find themselves located at different altitudes.  All of the continents feature different climates.  The continent lowest in altitude is hot, dry, and arid with deserts.  Continents higher up are considered “moderate”.  One of these continents is mostly dry yet still features forests and plateaus.  Further up there’s another continent with a moderate climate which is more humid and features regular rain fall and a vast sea.  This is Dolsia Main.  The next land mass is tropical with dense jungles and lots of precipitation.  From here, many waterfalls pour from all around the continent and offer life giving water and precipitation to the continents below.  A small continent high above the jungles is known for it beautiful but hazardous tundra.  The highest continent of the God Planet is an arctic mountain range.  Most of the land here is twisted and thrusting ever upwards due to harsh freezing temperatures.



List of Continents

• Kretaeris - Arctic mountain ranges with twisted, up thrusting features due to harsh freezing temperatures.

  

  Kretaeris by Chris Kapp

• Artaeris - Cold yet starkly beautiful tundra.
• Protus - Tropical dense jungle, the continent is laced with rivers and waterfalls.  Many of these tumble off the edge of the continent below.  Also features a mountain range that showcases beautiful water falls .
• Dolsia Main - A moderate/humid climate.  The largest continent.  Half of it is covered in water and is known as the Vastsea.  Beyond the sheer cliff edges that line the coast, there are large sweeping forests and open plains covering rolling hills.  There is also one large river and several tributaries.
• Dolsia Minor - A moderate/dry terrain.  Short, stout trees and tough grasses make up most of the foliage on this continent.  The terrain features many high plateaus that look out on a landscape scarred with canyons created by seasonal flood rains.  Much of the terrain here is an orange or red color and many of the flowering plants have blue petals - a bizarre contrast.
• Karsis - Vast, arid desert and great dune seas.  The second largest continent

Amidst all 6 of the continents, there are also countless smaller islands of various formations.

The continents and the islands all float through rotations within the God Planet’s atmosphere.  They do not orbit any particular body.  They simply travel about on a predetermined path that does not allow them to collide.  To put this into perspective:  during one cycle (more to follow on cycles), the jungle continent may find itself hanging above a moderate continent but the following cycle there could be no other continents below it all the way down to the desert continent.  Natives are able to track the movement of the continents and calendar systems are in use to measure the cycles and the passage of time.

Atmosphere:  The atmosphere is unique here.  To imagine it, picture a space seen, starry background and everything.  Even distant nebulae.  Now you have continents floating in front of you, stacked high and moving about on their own rotations.  Around all of this, there is a perfectly circular bubble, force field looking atmosphere.  It could be similar to one of those clear bouncy balls that have interesting things inside that make them so pretty.  Well this atmosphere also produces it’s own light and regulates the temperature for the God Planet.  Along the equatorial region, there is a strong, beautiful light on the outer edges of the atmosphere that travels circles around the planet.  This light puts off heat that is essential for life on the planet. The light makes a full revolution around the equatorial region of the planet which is called a cycle (or a half day).  Closer to the end of the cycle, the light begins to sink down to the lower regions.  Here it gets closer to the desert continent, creating night for all of the continents above and a harsh unforgiving new day for the desert continent below.  It will complete it’s cycle moving slower around the planet at the sub-equatorial level before slowly rising back up to start a new “day” where it began the day before at the equator.  This procession of the “light” (which will probably be referred to as The Son) allows no nighttime for the desert continent.  It creates a sort of twilight for other lower continents and true darkness and nighttime for the Moderate Humid continent and above.  The arctic continent never receives much sunlight.  On the High Cycle (daytime) it experiences the twilight and on Low Cycle (nighttime) it is pitch black.

Precipitation on the God Planet sometimes creates unique and stunningly beautiful cloud formations that can even hover the outer edges of the atmosphere before being swept up in a thermal tunnel and drifting off to fall as rain on the tropical continent.  Combined with the unusual nature of The Son on the God Planet, the skies are often painted in striking colors.