Canticle
| Canticle | |
|---|---|
| Shards | None[1] |
| Investitures | Charred |
| Universe | Cosmere |
“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. ”
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,[3] led by a preacher named Zellion.[4][5] 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 in the system.[1]
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 increases its mass enough so that it has a gravity of around 0.7g.[citation needed][fn 1]
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]
The geography of the planet constantly changes due to the stone melting from the intense heat from the sun and the radiation of its Invested core.[citation needed]
The sun the planet orbits is highly invested.[1]
Culture
The natives on Canticle are primarily visitors from 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.[3] The majority of its populace lives on dispirate cities scattered across the planet,[citation needed] these cities are made out of smaller ships that can link togther.[6] These groups then live in 'corridors' that are different longitudes across the planets surface.[3]
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.
Notes
- Footnotes
- ↑ This would make for a mass of approximately 2.66 * 1021 (0.000446 Earth), and an extreme density of 152.51 g/cm3 (27.68 Earth), this is substantially denser than the average planetary core (9.9-12.2 g/cm3), and thus suggests an unnatural origin.
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