Krynnspace- Constellations, Planets and Gods (long)

Over the past year there has been some discussion on updating and 
improving published spheres, and earlier this year there was a lot of 
talk concerning Krynnspace.

So I've decided to through my ideas into the ring, although I do not, 
buy any means, consider myself a Dragonlance expert (I read the 
original series of books, and played, irreverently, through the first 
module, I also have access to various Dragonlance boxed sets), but I 
_think_ I have a handle on various setting tropes.

Ok, lets start with the Sphere overall, as the events that led to 
Krynn vanishing occur several decades into the future of the common 
Spelljammer timeline, I'm going to leave them to more knowledgeable 
folks.

Constellations, Planets and Gods
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One major feature of Dragonlance is the importance of astrology to the 
setting, the gods are represented by celestial bodies, and this is not 
just symbolic - when Paladine and Takhisis manifested on Krynn, their 
constellations vanished from the heavens.

The stars of Krynnspace appear as portals to the plane of Radiance, 
including those stars that make up the constellations. When the Deity 
represented by a constellation manifested, the stars forming that 
constellation vanish.

There should also be considered the creatures known as Constellates 
(MC 9), their description definitely mentioned Krynnspace. I believe 
that in Krynnspace, a Constellate is another avatar form of a god. It 
is quite possible the gods assumed constellate form when they 
destroyed Zivilyn (the planet), and inflicted the cataclysm upon 
Krynn.

Another manifestation of Krynnspace astrology is the connection 
between the Towers of High Sorcery and the moons of Krynn, which I 
will cover in a later post.

Finally, the majority of the neutral deities of the Krynnspace 
pantheon are represented by planets. While the Krynnspace supplement 
states that the gods use their respective planets to scry the rest of 
the sphere, I think that the relationship is more intimate, the 
planet, in some respects, _is_ the god, or at least, is the gods 
centre of consciousness within Krynnspace. It would be an interesting 
idea if, when a Neutral god manifests in Krynnspace, their planet 
vanishes in the same way that the constellation does, although this 
raises questions as to what happens to the inhabitants of those 
planets when this happens!

One fly in this ointment is the Deity Shinare, who lacks a planet in 
Krynnspace (but has one in Tales of the Lance). Shinare's area of 
control is 'Wealth, industry, freedom, power'. Possible solutions are:
a) Ignore the Problem, Shinare got a moon of Zivilyn anyway.
b) Nehzmyth is Shinare (really doesn't fit!)
c) The Stellar Islands are Shinare (as written, they don't fit, remove 
the 'aura of goodness' and make them more a trading centre, and they 
would fit - but this is a major tweak.
d) Add a whole new planet!

For b), c), and d) we would then have to decide if we re-named that 
moon of Zivilyn.

Comments and Thoughts welcome.

-- 
Charles