> What is hard to define in the pre-dawn is the concept of days - when there was a sun in the sky, it was more or less high in the sky, regardless whether it was called Antirius, Elmal, or Yelm. It grew weaker and sank lower, but it never set (neither in Orlanthi nor in Dara Happan myth).
The Sun did set in Dara Happan myth. They have the Doom Conjunction recorded on their plates and measured the Solar Radius by the distance between the Peak and the Well of Barda (Heaven Corrupted article in the Glorious ReAscent). Antirius who remained behind was not as bright as Yelm had been nor as far reaching.
> The Starseers could define a day as the full cycle of the rotation of the Heavens.
They had night time back then. The difference I suppose is that Yelm and other planets went behind the Sky instead of into the Underworld.
> There would have been many more prominent celestial bodies in both the Golden Age and the Storm Age, with losses incurred due to the Chaos invasion of the skies.
There's only about ten and they've all been restored (to the Sky that is, not as was which would be incorrect in the case of Umath).
--Peter Metcalfe
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