Does the FFXIV Solar System Have Planets?

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Tangentially related by virtue of where the thread has been steered so far...

Though [Hydaelyn] is the name of the entire planet, the term is very rarely used by its inhabitants, for to understand the concept of a planet, one must first know of other worlds, and most on Hydaelyn do not.

Back when humanity was as ignorant of the cosmos as most on Hydaelyn are, lights in the sky were mysterious fixed objects ... aside from the seven that weren't. It cemented the number seven in history as a divine and useful number and became enmeshed with the gods themselves.

See the seven day week: Sun Day, Moon Day, Tyr's Day (Mars), Woden's Day (Mercury), Thor's Day (Jupiter), Frea's Day (Venus), Saturn's day.

The Seven Luminaries were known as the asteres planetai. "Planet" is literally short for "wandering star".