The Land of Night

A region under permanent star-sky, where the sun never quite clears the horizon and the world is lit by moon, aurora, and the bioluminescence of everything living in it. It is beautiful past description and utterly disorienting to visitors, who cannot tell time and slowly go strange.

Geography

Low, open, and cold, with still water everywhere — the pools are instruments as much as landscape, and disturbing one during an observation is a serious offense.

Lumenhal

An observatory-city of stacked lenses and still pools, built for reading the sky. The Wisps regard the stars as the closest thing the world has to scripture, and Lumenhal's astronomers have been quietly compiling something uncomfortable: the celestial record does not support the doctrine of metamorphic advancement.

They have not published. They have been not-publishing for about four hundred years, and the argument over whether to keep not-publishing is the central political question of Wisp society.

Relations

Distant from everyone by preference. Lumenhal corresponds carefully with the Ninefold Shrine, both parties having reached the same heretical conclusion from opposite directions, and neither yet willing to say it first.