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Culture & Society

Order of the Starlight (Aether)
  • Demographics: Approximately 800 000 at peak; their modern heirs, the Mystarans, number far fewer due to long lifespans and low birth rates.
  • Values: Pursuit of cosmic understanding, intellectual honesty, balance between knowledge and responsibility, reverence for mystery and the unknown.
  • Education: Star-Academies provided individualized instruction in aetheric theory, celestial navigation, sigil-craft, and psychic discipline. Young initiates were paired with a master through a psychic resonance-matching ceremony. This tradition survives in the modern Mystaran master-apprentice bond.