Canticle

Canticle
Shards	None
Investitures	Charred, Sunhearts
Universe	Cosmere

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“We were the first who died on Canticle. The first to live in this land and devise the designs of flight—based on the ships that brought us here. But then we died and rose as shades. Remembering. ”

—A member of the Chorus relates the history of Canticle

Canticle is a planet in the cosmere. It is primarily populated with a group of Threnodites that fled the squabbling caused by the Evil on their homeworld to take up residence elsewhere, led by a preacher named Zellion. The planet is constantly barraged with intense sunlight which causes the land and atmosphere to heat to such levels that it burns and melts anything left within it, forcing inhabitants to constantly be on the move in large, mobile cities.^{[citation needed]}

No Shard currently resides on the planet.

Geography

Canticle is around 161 km in radius, or around 0.025 cosmere standard, though it has an extremely large and dense Invested iron core. This iron core is not the sole source of the gravity, but it is its Invested nature that gives it a gravitational force of around 0.7 cosmere standard and allows it to retain hydrostatic equilibrium and a planetary ring system despite its small size.^{[citation needed]}

The planet is orbited by a system of rings with several divisions, these rings play an important role in reflecting sunlight at the night side of the planet, keeping it from complete darkness.^{[citation needed]} These rings have an unknown orbital inclination, as they are not centered at the equatorial region of Canticle and have a notable angle relative to the equatorial plane.^{[citation needed]}

Canticle has a retrograde spin, thus the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Is radial velocity is notably slow, at around 28.1 meters per second, though it has a rotational period of 10 hours.

The geography of the planet constantly changes due to the stone melting from the intense heat produced in the atmosphere, and the radiation of its Invested core.^{[citation needed]} This intense heat is produced by the atmosphere being unnaturally resistant to the flow of Investiture, causing it to produce large amounts of heat via joule heating.^{[citation needed]}

The thickness of the atmosphere thins rapidly with increasing altitude, with the end of the atmosphere being set at around one-thousand feet from the surface.^{[citation needed]}

Culture

The natives on Canticle are primarily inhabitants of Threnody that departed for the planet soon after the Evil attacked their ancestors, as such a great deal of Threnody cultural norms persist on Canticle. The majority of its populace lives on disparate cities scattered across the planet,^{[citation needed]} these cities are made out of smaller ships that can link together. These groups then live in 'corridors' that span different latitudes. Each group in turn elects a 'lodestar' who serves as the chief navigator of the city as well as its leader.

Settlements

The people of Canticle live on floating cities made out of many smaller ships which are capable of assembling and disassembling at will. This system was done so that the cities would be able to quickly move in order to stay out of the sun, which forbids sessility.^{[citation needed]}

List of Settlements

• Beacon
• Union

Trivia

• Canticle is a word for a hymn or a chant, particularly referring to hymns or psalms taken from biblical or holy texts in the Christian faith.

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