Evis (planet)

(Map made with Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator; "satellite image" made with Zarkonnen's Planet Generator.)

= Overview = The planet of Evis is in the Ibis-7040 star system, and is roughly 97,831,843 miles from Ibis-7040 (more commonly referred to as just Ibis or the sun) This planet has around 4.8 billion denizens, and has 8 countries: Myalis, Wonovell, Esmon, Aibrivea, Sterenia, Lunem, Menaiba and the Osmine Isles. The planet has two intersecting rings (much like the fictional Planet DX ) and one small moon called Lumina, made entirely out of diamond.

General planet information
The average temperatures on the permanent landmasses of Evis (that is, excluding the polar ice) range from -16 degrees Fahrenheit (-27 Celsius) in the northeastern portion of Sterenia and some of the upper islands of Wonovell and Esmon; to 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42 Celsius) throughout much of Lunem and Aibrivea.

The atmosphere is filled with clouds, often tinted beautiful colors ranging from lavender to peach. The sky on most parts of Evis is pale blue streaked with lavender, pink, orange and yellow; as the planet turns the sunrises and sunsets make the sky appear mostly pink before fading to a dark indigo or almost black. At night the clouds appear as dull, dark bluish smears across the sky, obscuring the stars in some places. Although the clouds have different colors based on the atmospheric gases they pick up, all precipitation that falls from them is clear.

Evis is roughly 3 times the size of the Earth, with a diameter of 22,871.2 miles (19,104.8 kilometers) but yet has a gravity nearly identical to Earth's- of 10.1 m/s^2.

From some parts of Evis, the planet's large double rings can be seen, though may be covered up by the clouds. On rare occasions, the moon may travel through the rings, causing a brief break where the moon breached to appear for a few days, but before long the rings will re-situate themselves and go back to normal (generally it takes about a week or a week and a half for the ring material to fall back into position) A single day on Evis lasts 28 hours, while a year lasts 515 Earth days- or 429 Evis days. (That is, assuming my calculations are right.)

Climate and environment
There is a relatively high degree in variation from the hottest seasons to the coldest ones, but how much exactly depends on which continent you're on.

Myalis and the Osmine Isles tend to have the most stable climates, with the least amount of variation from winter to summer; conversely, the Lunemese/Menai landmass contains the highest degree of variation, reaching some of the highest temperatures on the planet in the summer and getting almost as cold as central Esmon in winter.

The majority of the water on Evis's surface is actually fresh water, or at least water that contains salt concentrations too low to be considered saltwater. Despite being fresh water it's still not drinkable, since the oceans contain many microorganisms that would be harmful to drink. However some organisms have adapted their digestive systems to kill the toxic bacteria and amoeba that would otherwise harm them. And of course, the denizens of Evis have devised numerous ways to filter out and kill the bacteria in the oceans.

Time and date system
Evis uses a 28 hour clock, almost identical to the 24 hour clock used on some parts of Earth. Evis does have time zones but they're divided based on the sun's position in the sky from certain places, with the goal of each time zone making it to where the sun will be in the middle of the sky at 14:00 within 4 hours' margin of error. In the exact middle of these time zone strips the sun will reach the middle of the sky at almost exactly 14:00, but on either side of the zone there will be variation simply due to the size of these time zones. There are 10 time zones across Evis, which are numbered instead of named, as "Zone 1-10". Every country spans at least two time zones, with Myalis spanning 4.

Months and days
The months on Evis are all 30 days long- however an Evis year has 14 months instead of 12, with the final month being 39 days long instead of 30. A week is divided into 6 days, meaning there are 5 weeks in a month- save for the last month, which has 6 and a half weeks. The final half-week in the last month is never allowed to finish, meaning the year always ends on a Dritzi, or the third day of the week. When the new year begins, the calendar starts right over at Isti, the first day of the week, on the first of Wou, the first month in the year. This calendar system was first used by the tribes of the Osmine Isles dating back to 1A:95. Some of the months and days' names have been kept (such as Wou, Yune, Kii, Isti, Zu-Enni and Okanu) but many of them were changed mostly to names chosen by Sterenia when the system was officially adopted.

Month names:

 * Wou
 * Vogen
 * Yune
 * Grestya
 * Nilyam
 * Kii
 * Riji
 * Fefaiko
 * Verska
 * Nivirt
 * Zanyu
 * Veredmy
 * Nuvuu
 * Amaishya

Days of the week:

 * Isti
 * Zu-enni
 * Dritzi
 * Okanu
 * Fenn
 * Rokke

Years and age of Evis
Evis's year system is based off of the time elapsed since the- at the time of this system's conception- oldest known artifact was created, an as-of-yet undeciphered stone tablet found in Lunem reported to be about 55,440 years old. This means that the current year, at least when this was written, would be written as 55,440 in our system. Evis, however, categorizes the years into different sectors. The ten-thousand place and thousands place are both represented as a digit from 1 to 99, and the hundreds place is turned into a letter, from A to J, and then the last two digits are kept. So the current year would be written as 55E:40.

Since this system was created, however, artifacts even older than the so-called Date Stone have surfaced- for example, a preserved human skull from Sterenia that's 80,000 years old; Aibriven deposits of rugilite- an amber-like substance- chemically dated at just under 198,700 years old, and volcanic stones from 7 million years ago. Thanks to new chemical dating methods, the countries on Evis are constantly beating each other out for having discovered the oldest thing in existence. It's believed, though, from mineral samples and damage sites on Lumina that Evis itself is 3.9 billion years old. These dates are written as negative numbers- for example, the rugilite deposits found in Santa Clato, Aibrivea, would have been formed in the year -198,700. __DISAMBIG__