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Each moon is home to one of the twelve [[aether]]s; those aethers produce spores, which rain down on Lumar's surface in great, perpetual falls known as [[lunagree]]s. As a result, the entire planet is covered by oceans of aether spores.{{book ref|tress|28}}{{book ref|tress|1}} The seas and moons figure heavily in the local language, with many people swearing by the moons or using phrases like "how on the seas".{{book ref|tress|41}}
Owing to the moons being of equal distance to one another, each sea is of the same size, and roughly the same pentagonal shape.{{book ref|tress|42}} This functions geometrically as twelve pentagons that tesselate the sphere, and due to the shape of the seas and the planet, each sea would border five others, with three around each vertex. The surface is uneven -- each sea is effectively a pile of sand, highest at the lunagree and lower on the border, where spores of the neighboring seas intermingle. However, the sheer size of the seas makes the incline imperceptible unless one is extremely close to the peak.{{book ref|tress|46}} Far below the surface, the seafloor is full of thermal vents that pump out great amounts of air bubbles, along with the decomposition process of the spores{{wob ref|16131}}
Ships on the seas tend to have reinforced bows in order to protect the ship from the thick spores.{{url ref|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOeZAjTR-VY |text= The Science of Magic: Tress of the Emerald Sea |site=Brandon Sanderson on YouTube|name=The Science of Magic}}
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