Glinos
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| Orbital characteristics | ||
| Mass (Kg) | 2.04E+26 | |
| Radius (Km) | 46,750 | |
| Solar Day (h) | 17.9 | |
| Orbital Period (days) | 6,785 | |
| Semi-Major Axis (Km) | 9.66E+08 | |
| Periapsis (AU) | 6.37 | |
| Apoapsis (AU) | 6.62 | |
| Albedo | .72 | |
| Surface Temperature (K) | 58.1 | |
| Surface Gravity (m/s^2) | 6.24 | |
| Axial Tile (degrees) | 19.5 | |
| Inclination (degrees) | 5.4 | |
| Orbital Speed (Km/s) | 10.6 | |
| Satellites | Nikolaj | |
Glinos is the planet eighth closest to the star Atos, and the last of the system's four gas giants.
North Polar Regions
The North Polar Regions of Glinos are dominated by chaotic circulation, dense storm structure, and a broad field of swirling pale and shadowed cloud whose visual complexity exceeds that of the planet’s middle latitudes. Along the western margin, Borean Verge marks a rough transitional zone where the polar cloud mass begins to break into separate turbulent systems, while Glacial Veil occupies the frost-bright tract of high northern haze lying east of it. At the center of the northern hemisphere, Osirian Crown forms the principal polar circulation, a broad crowned storm-field whose tightly wound currents and surrounding pale turbulence give the north much of its commanding visual identity. Farther east, Nexan Gyre gathers the great northeastern spiral into a more coherent named system, while Laprind Reach defines the stretched and unsettled northeastern margin where the polar weather begins to give way to longer atmospheric flows. The underlying canonical picture is one of powerful cyclonic storms, dark cloud structure, frequent lightning, and dense turbulent chemistry shaped by hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane.
In descriptive terms, the north is not simply stormy but ceremonial in its violence: a realm of cold recurrence, visible strain, and layered shadow. That makes it particularly well suited to names drawn from Glinos’s winter cult and from the symbolic world of Nexa, where endurance, foresight, and survival through bleakness are treated as spiritual disciplines. Osirian Crown and Nexan Gyre in particular help anchor the hemisphere in a language of cyclical severity rather than mere meteorology, while Borean Verge preserves the sense of a wind-scoured outer margin befitting a planet associated with winter and stoic testing.
Equatorial Regions
The Equatorial Regions of Glinos are organized into long, intense atmospheric bands whose deep red, brown, and frost-muted tones distinguish the planet sharply from the softer gas giants farther inward. Across the western equatorial band, Glinaean Belt names one of the clearest broad flows on the planet, a long horizontal tract whose color and density reflect the heavy atmospheric differentials that define Glinos’s middle latitudes. East of this, Eon March follows a more broken central band where darker and lighter streams appear to press against one another in a slow but persistent advance. Above the principal red-brown belt, Bloodbath Current tracks a vivid and disturbed band-edge whose color contrast makes it one of the most striking transitions on the map, while farther east Rimeward Stream names the pale slanting disturbance where a lighter plume cuts across the regularity of the equatorial flow. Below the mid-belt, Cycle Verge and Winterward Lane distinguish two lower transitional tracts where the organized equatorial bands begin to dissolve into smaller eddies and more fragmented southern circulation. This entire zone is also the locus of the canon Flux Arc, a transient electromagnetic light phenomenon that appears across the equatorial atmosphere and makes the region especially important for observation.
The equator of Glinos is therefore not only the warmest and most visibly banded portion of the planet, but also the most structurally legible. The faster rotation of the equatorial atmosphere, noted on the main page, produces the long ordered strips that make this zone appear more processional and stratified than the poles. The names used here try to preserve that sense of disciplined motion rather than chaos: Glinaean Belt and Eon March for the principal bands, Bloodbath Current and Rimeward Stream for their more forceful transitional flows, and Cycle Verge with Winterward Lane for the downward shift into more fragmented southern circulation.
Southern Polar Regions
The Southern Polar Regions of Glinos are broader, heavier, and more vortex-dominated than the equatorial atmosphere, with large pale masses and deep circular systems giving the lower hemisphere a more monumental appearance than the north. The most prominent feature is the Dark Spiral, already recognized in canonical description as the defining southern vortex of Glinos. It occupies the southwestern lower hemisphere as an immense rotating system of dark cloud, set against brighter surrounding atmosphere and marked by a pronounced sense of inward pull. East of this, Snowstrider Drift names the long lower southern tract where broken pale cloud and quieter circulation extend across the polar approach, while Pale Council Corridor marks the southeastern flow-zone whose smoother shape and relative coherence separate it from the harsher violence of the Spiral itself. According to the main page, the south is slightly warmer than the north, allowing larger and more complex cloud structures to develop, and the interaction between the Spiral and neighboring storms creates a constantly shifting meteorological display.
In thematic terms, the south feels less like a field of competing storms and more like a domain of accumulation and return. That makes it especially compatible with the symbolic vocabulary of the Eon Fellowship, whose rites and teachings emphasize long cycles, hardship, and the patience needed to endure what seems unending. Dark Spiral remains the anchor of the hemisphere, while Snowstrider Drift and Pale Council Corridor frame the larger southern weather as something guided, processional, and enduring rather than merely chaotic. Together they give the southern pole a visual and symbolic identity distinct from the north: not crowned turbulence, but solemn recurrence.
Mythology
In the religious cosmology of the Reformed Stripping Path, Glinos is venerated as both a planetary body and the divine embodiment of winter, endurance, and the eternal cycle of decay and renewal. As the Divine of Ice and Winter, Glinos symbolizes the stoic forces that govern the boundaries between life and death, offering mortals both hardship and wisdom through the trials of cold and silence. His arrival marks a time of reflection, pruning, and spiritual clarity—where the old is stripped away to prepare for what is yet to come.
According to canonical tradition, Glinos emerged from the first frost that settled upon creation, his presence born from stillness and crystalline silence. He is said to walk the world accompanied by spectral wolves and shadowed spirits, ushering in the winter and observing mortals as they confront the limits of their strength. Myths such as the Hymn of Glinos portray him as a severe but just god, unmoved by pleading, yet deeply respectful of resilience and humility.
Worship of Glinos is centered around the acceptance of impermanence and the strength found in survival. The Eon Fellowship of Nexa upholds his rites, traversing wild, frozen places and performing rituals that honor the natural cycles he governs. His festivals, including Erev Galgal, emphasize renewal through hardship and the importance of endurance in the face of decline.
Through his association with the distant gas giant Glinos, whose atmosphere is turbulent and cold, he is understood as a patient, unrelenting force—a divine steward of the forgotten season, whose silence speaks of deeper truths and whose presence reminds mortals that all things must pass before they are born anew.
