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"Ravimarga" means "Path of the Sun"

Fantasy setting with ships that move among the stars.
- They are called "sunships."
Solar system with four suns, each quite distant from one another, appearing only as very bright stars in the night sky.
- Each generates its own gravity, with multiple planets orbiting it.
System of planets, designed according to "Points of Light" design - few settlements, most of them large, with most shipping and transportation arranged by sunships.

A band of "solar winds" upon which ships may sail to move quickly from one place to the other in the Ravimarga system.
- Requires the use of "sun sails," sails of various colors that shimmer with golden pearlescence, which can catch the solar winds and propel a ship quickly.
- The longer a ship remains in the solar winds, the hotter it gets, with heatstroke and even spontaneous combustion of wood and cloth after too long.
- Ships that are crafted of the "divine gold" - thevaqan - are immune to this effect, and in fact move faster than other ships within the Solar Wind.
Forms a lemniscate path, with "windstop" points along it that provide access to the myriad systems.
At its center is Barhis, a great port of call for many of the sun-ships.

System of 9 planets.
Considered the cradle of civilization because it is the source of thevaqan, the strange gold that is reactive to the solar winds.

"The Golden Empire"
Advanced civilization that produces and uses most of the thevaqan in the Four Suns.
Themes: Imperial India, solarpunk

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 ** Requires the use of "sun sails," sails of various colors that shimmer with golden pearlescence, which can catch the solar winds and propel a ship quickly.
 ** The longer a ship remains in the solar winds, the hotter it gets, with heatstroke and even spontaneous combustion of wood and cloth after too long.
+** Ships that are crafted of the "divine gold" - ''thevaqan'' - are immune to this effect, and in fact move faster than other ships within the Solar Wind.
 * Forms a lemniscate path, with "windstop" points along it that provide access to the myriad systems.
 * At its center is Barhis, a great port of call for many of the sun-ships.