Xentharin

Xentharin is the third planet from Velyr, and orbits close enough to Verail to be visible vividly in the sky. To Verail, it was long known as “The Blue Star”, even after the discovery was made that it not a star, but another landmass not unlike Verail. In fact, Xentharin is easily the closest planet in the Velyr system to Verail, both in actual distance and in its composition. While it is somewhat colder than Verail, it is the only other habitable planet in the Verail system.

Xentharin has an equatorial diameter of 5129 kilometers. It has 25 hour days, slightly longer than Verail, and a year length of about 702 days. For the common residents of either planet who don’t need to know the specific numbers, Xentharin days are about as long as Verail days, and Xentharin years are equivalent to two Verail years.

In 4187 FV, the Kahvlarashen researcher Felcaehria managed to successfully open a portal link to Xentharin while its orbit was closest to Verail. They returned in 4189 FV, with the information that the Blue Star was not only similar to Verail, but had its own native population of the Sel Yarii.

In the following years, other travelers would venture to Xentharin using Felcaerhia’s research. The two planets are close enough for the portal link to function roughly every Xentharin year, or every two Verail years, and remain close enough for about five days. Since then, some research has been made into travel between Verail and Xentharin outside of this time, and while several successful trips have been made, it is largely impractical, and most travel between the two is still made while their orbit remains closest.

While Xentharin residents were initially wary of the sudden contact with Verail, the nations of Verail have yet to attempt any form of conflict with Xentharin. The Sel Yarii were sufficiently advanced that forces of Verail would not be able to easily defeat them, and what they lacked in the development of magic they made up for with superior technology. Conflict with Xentharin would also prove challenging considering the span of time between it becoming easily accessible. As a result of all these factors, the nations of Verail that had considered trying to take Xentharin’s territory for themselves abandoned those plans, and relations between the Sel Yarii and the people of Verail have remained friendly.

The plantlife of Xentharin has a turquoise color, in comparison to the much more green hue of most Verail plants. The fact that Xentharin has life so similar to Verail at all, however, has raised a number of questions. They are not identical, of course. The Sel Yarii alone did not clearly fit the reproductive categories found on Verail, but it is close enough to make many from both planets wonder if, at some distant point in history, their populations may have a shared origin. Some on Verail have wondered if perhaps the Visitors had a hand, considering Xentharin’s affinity for psionics and cultural reverence of dreams, while Xentharin residence believe that the people of Verail were likely creations of the unproven god most Sel Yarii cultures revere, Suyarii.