Jesenreth (Planet)

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Jesenreth (Old Tongue, “Mother of Sorrow”) is a terrestrial planet, third of eleven in the Jesenreth (Crystal Sphere), of which it is the most inhabited. Its sun, which all system bodies orbit, is Quata. The other bodies in the system, in order from the primary, are Aflos, Groajan, Bekel, Fythia, Cuam-ran-jebos, Loreelei, Ottrude, Eberhild, Margor, and Emmith.

Jesenreth has an equatorial circumference of 25,106 miles, an orbital period of 360 days, and a mean surface temperature of 60.1 Fahrenheit, making it slightly larger, warmer, and closer to its sun than Earth. Its surface area is 80.1% water and 19.9 % land. Jesenreth has no continent-sized land masses, being a planet of islands, a few large ones and many thousands of small ones. Four of these islands are actually akupara, colossal, sapient, and extremely old turtles which carry civilizations on their backs as they slowly cross the oceans. The planet has one moon, Iredol. Jesenreth is the only planet in the sphere with a moon.

Jesenreth is a very old planet, much older than the oldest records of civilized peoples, which go back 35,000 years. Since The Twelve Gods created the world, land masses have shifted, seas have risen and fallen, and dozens of civilizations have risen and fell (see History of Jesenreth). The estimated current population of civilized beings is 40,000,000. The most common races are, in order of most populous to least, Tortles, Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Genasi, Tieflings, Aasimar, Gnolls, Yuan-ti, Lizardfolk, and Kobolds. Others are present, but in small numbers, mostly those who have arrived on spelljamming ships and stayed, or descendants of the same. In terms of real-world socio-economic development, the most developed areas of Jesenreth are like Europe just before the Industrial Revolution, or the late 1600s, with the addition of magic.

The largest land masses, in size from greatest to least are Itrefaulk, Marbindor, Jeshos, Sarborea, Nurdug, Skusk, Ketten Islands, Yar Kanti Islands, Akupara Sidol, Akupara Maeus, Akupara Freenma, and Akupara Luos. The far north is covered by an ice cap called The Frozen Sea, and the far southern ocean is called The Boiling Sea, because it literally is. There is also The Sunken Land, an island that sunk just about 40 ft. straight down in an unknown magical calamity, leaving many of its buildings sticking out of the water and many other places buried but not far down. Three cities stick up above the sea, havens for pirates and scavengers.

The most commonly used dating system on Jesenreth is that developed by the sages of The Citadel of High Magic on Itrefaulk, called New Citadel Year, or NCY or just CY, and counts from the refounding of the Citadel after its destruction by The Lich Queen Faerlak. By this system, the current year is 1124 CY (see Comparative Dates on D&D Worlds). Years before 1 CY are called BCY, or Before Citadel Year (the destruction of the Old Citadel happened in 10 BCY). The syndecolites of Iredol use a different system, counting from the founding of their company-nation, and call the current year 578 SIY (Syndecol Industries Year).

In the CY system, years (of 360 days, which are 24 hours long) are divided into 10 months of 36 days each, and each month is divided into 4 weeks of 9 days each. The names of each month, from the beginning of the year to the end, are Alon, Mek, Proh, Habir, Nact, Waneel, Proka, Sevnir, Aug, and Neem. The 9 days of the week are Von, Du, Ned, Thu, Frid, Sant, Suun, Heet, and Hoba. Thus, the first day of the year was Von, Alon 1, 1124 CY.

The most-spoken language on Jesenreth is called Common Tongue or Trade Speech, being an amalgam of the principal dialects of the main languages of the four major races, Tortles, Humans, Elves, and Dwarves. It is written using the Purinym Script, similar to the Earth Hebrew alphabet. Almost every sapient being on the planet can at least understand Common. Every civilized race also has its own languages, and the mostly human Syndecolites have their own language, Syndeca, written in Syndecal Script, the use of which is copywritten.

Major nations and political powers of Jesenreth are: Akupara Sidol, Akupara Maeus, Akupara Freenma, and Akupara Luos, Tortle nations;Dnalor, Elven nation, Weshea and Lutran, Elven city states; Ufrealor, Dwarven nation, Thoiles, Greta, and Gretell, Dwarven strongholds; The Confederation of Uth, Human nation, Ploi Drajit, Dref Dral, Human city states, Ketten Islands (capital Sablos), Human nation; Preum Shea, Pleus Scon, Daflos, Genasi and Aasimar Confederation city states on Jeshos; Groshk, Tiefling city state on Nurdug, Fraib Smaria, Tiefling nation; Zaar, Gnoll dominion on Skusk; Yar Kanti Islands, Yuan-ti nation (capital Sslak); Lizardfolk and Kobolds have large tribes on Sarborea; the Domain of Thulok Karn in the Mountains of the Lash on Sarborea, Syndecol Industries on the moon Iredol, The Citadel of High Magic in the Mountains of Sajin on Itrefaulk.

For other Jesenreth-related topics, see Money on Jesenreth, Cultures on Jesenreth, History of Jesenreth, Magic on Jesenreth, Monsters of Jesenreth, Conflicts of Jesenreth, Holidays of Jesenreth, Old Sailor's Tales of Jesenreth, and Map of Jesenreth.

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