Figures / Wrenar
Wrenar
“patience, one who”
wren “patience” + -ar “one who”
Wrenar (“patience, one who”) is a 12-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 20° of the northern sky. Its brightest star is Athegarnis, magnitude 2.32.
The story
The Skaien hold that Wrenar was a bell-founder who buried a key where no lock has yet been built, and was made bright so that lying would be harder. North of 64° it never sets, which is taken as evidence that the sentence has not ended. Athegarnis, the amber eye, is the eye; the remaining 11 stars are counted against the turn. Those who keep the old year name no child in the weeks it is hidden.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 7.11 h
- Declination
- +26.01°
- Angular span
- 20.5°
- Stars in the figure
- 12
- Best season
- winter (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- north of 64° latitude, where it never sets
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Athegarnis“father-stone, little” | 2.32 | K2 II | 95 pc | 4,939 K |
| bhor | Ilmien“dawn, belonging to” | 2.34 | B7 V | 51 pc | 14,719 K |
| ciel | Thirherdar“iron-shepherd, one who” | 2.73 | K5 I | 710 pc | 4,407 K |
| dor | Braelothath“bridge-glow, made of” | 2.83 | A5 V | 15 pc | 8,488 K |
| enn | Merear“still-water, one who” | 3.23 | B6 V | 70 pc | 15,843 K |
| fael | Garna“stone, she who is” | 3.36 | K5 III | 45 pc | 4,392 K |
| gyre | Thireth“iron, of the” | 3.38 | K3 I | 746 pc | 4,693 K |
| hesp | Fennar“feather, one who” | 3.50 | B3 V | 191 pc | 22,398 K |
| ir | Smideth“forge, of the” | 3.82 | B4 V | 225 pc | 21,249 K |
| joth | Lirrisath“river-morning, made of” | 3.84 | B7 V | 69 pc | 13,498 K |
| kai | KS 1540 | 4.18 | F2 III | 163 pc | 7,168 K |
| lune | KS 1598 | 4.27 | B5 V | 229 pc | 19,685 K |
How this was made
Wrenar was not designed. It was grown outward from Athegarnis, 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.