Figures / Braeor
Braeor
“bridge, without”
brae “bridge” + -or “without”
Braeor (“bridge, without”) is a 14-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 37° of the northern sky. Its brightest star is Lothephethor, magnitude -0.02.
The story
The Issen hold that Braeor was a thief who unpicked the seam between one season and the next, and was set turning and has not been released. North of 46° it never sets, which is taken as evidence that the sentence has not ended. Lothephethor, the white nail, is the knot; the remaining 13 stars are counted against the turn. Those who keep the old year settle debts on the night it first clears the roofline.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 3.64 h
- Declination
- +43.90°
- Angular span
- 36.6°
- Stars in the figure
- 14
- Best season
- autumn (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- north of 46° latitude, where it never sets
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Lothephethor“glow-flare, without” | -0.02 | A7 I | 76 pc | 7,957 K |
| bhor | Lashedrina“wound-throat, she who is” | 2.22 | M1 III | 44 pc | 3,530 K |
| ciel | Sablethira“deep-dark-iron, she who is” | 2.75 | M2 I | 261 pc | 3,447 K |
| dor | Tessehalt“tile-halting” | 3.40 | F9 II | 102 pc | 6,040 K |
| enn | Sovreclimbai“sovereign-climbing, o —” | 3.51 | G8 III | 175 pc | 5,253 K |
| fael | Garnetalys“stone-foot, the last” | 3.57 | M2 III | 52 pc | 3,407 K |
| gyre | Fughai“fleeing, o —” | 3.71 | F4 V | 16 pc | 6,853 K |
| hesp | Ilmedrossien“dawn-tide, belonging to” | 3.78 | B5 I | 449 pc | 18,060 K |
| ir | Sarredrossis“ember-tide, little” | 3.79 | B7 I | 635 pc | 13,672 K |
| joth | Renmarune“heart-hand, place of” | 4.10 | M0 III | 58 pc | 3,617 K |
| kai | Everedrin“always-throat” | 4.13 | K7 III | 188 pc | 4,073 K |
| lune | KS 1528 | 4.17 | F6 V | 15 pc | 6,468 K |
| mor | KS 1564 | 4.21 | A8 V | 26 pc | 7,798 K |
| nix | KS 1583 | 4.24 | F3 III | 286 pc | 7,077 K |
How this was made
Braeor was not designed. It was grown outward from Lothephethor, the brightest star in this part of the sky that had not already been claimed by another figure, absorbing near neighbours until it ran out of them — which is, near enough, how the constellations of the real sky came about. Its name is Ilmenic, an invented agglutinative language: every name on this site decomposes into morphemes and can be translated.