Does the FFXIV Solar System Have Planets?

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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.

5 major planets (or atleast visible clearly). If we want to take that reference, we could take example from eorzean calendar 8 days for 6 major planets other than Hydaelyn. Or is it based on 6 elements + 2 aspects?

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5 major planets (or atleast visible clearly). If we want to take that reference, we could take example from eorzean calendar 8 days for 6 major planets other than Hydaelyn. Or is it based on 6 elements + 2 aspects?

Given how neatly everything usually fits, it's probably both, but we only know of the elements and polarities to be definitively true.

[Anonymoose]

If we want to take that reference, we could take example from eorzean calendar 8 days for 6 major planets other than Hydaelyn. Or is it based on 6 elements + 2 aspects?

6 elements + 2 polarities. When aether is acting within the Elemental energy spectrum, there are three dimensions that determine its behavior: aspect (what "direction" from neutral the imbalance is; i.e. ice, water, a mix) , elemental charge (how strong of a concentration that energy is), and polar charge (a tilt towards an active or passive manifestation of that element). Most of the time you only hear about the energy from the elemental aspect, but a deep polar charge manifests unique properties, as well, and thus they get the same consideration. I consider astral and umbral the "up and down" relative to the "12 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 o'clock" positions of the elements and how "far from center" that line goes. Aetherology is weird.

The night sky has something far more obvious than wandering stars, however - it has six constellations of (what are believed to be) stars that line up perfectly with the elements. These are tied into Eorzean myth as the six elemental heavens into which the Twelve retreated (causing the six elemental hells to come into being). A seventh "polar" heaven and hell star is said to exist in the skies, as well, but these are less well-defined ... perhaps because Final Fantasy XIV folklore states that it was only supposed to be the six until it was brought to the developers' attention that shouting "SIX HELLS!" sounds dumb, but "SEVEN HELLS!" is just right.

Still 6+2 with constellations seems to be the origin of the 8 day week. The best suggestions I know of for believing that other planets exist are: the "Dragon Star" which might be where Midgardsormr came from, the fact Allag built interstellar starships at all in the first place, and Midgardsormr's comments on Omega's origin, which are ambiguous as to whether Omega came from another planet in our dimension, our planet in another dimension, or another planet in another dimension, lol. Please look forward to 4.4...?

Just a minor clarification: It wasn't so much that stars were "fixed" as they were travelling on a "fixed" route across the night sky, from east to west.

"Fixed" to the great crystal sphere was the implied reference. Apologies