IN> Panthalassa

[William Keith]

> Panthalassa had several unique features to it.  To begin with, it was
> the only place on the celestial plane where one could see the sun,
> moon, and stars.

Night in Heaven is underrated by most writers.

IIRC there is, canonically, a deep area of the Catacombs where darkness 
reigns and the Light of Heaven takes a different form. The area around 
Blandine's Tower appears to be one where the light resembles dawn.

Semi-canonically, one suspects that the Sun, Moon, and various other 
significant astronomical objects are visible from Heaven to accommodate 
the plethora of religious calendars based upon them; if not from 
antiquity, then at least since the advent of those calendars.  We know 
Gabriel has a Tether to the Sun; why not have that Tether, particularly 
bright with the Light of Heaven, mobile in the 'sky' of Heaven?  
Possibly on a peculiar, non-circadian but metaphysically interesting 
schedule?  It would certainly help identify when dawn Essence was 
regained.  And perhaps its transits underground would correspond with 
those *in*teresting occasional rumors of Gabriel seen prophesying in 
Hell.

Noncanonically, I submit that the Glade and the Savannah both have 
nighttime and crepuscular hours on a regular circadian rhythm, in order 
to serve nocturnal animals and night-blooming species.  (For that 
matter, they probably have places where it rains.  Come to think of it, 
one wonders if Lightning's Cathedral possesses a region of storm.)

Utterly beyond canon, I caused my Archangel of Redemption to possess a 
Cathedral in which it was permanently a starlit night.

William