Artalys

In Eminence: Xander's Tales, Artalys is The World full of history, with it's Story of the ages.

Artalys
A dying world, dilapidated by the premise of a raging star which stands close to destruction. Artalys suffers this cycle every 10,000 years. She dissimulates her pain through a metamorphosis of rebirth after death. She dies, then she is born. She is the world itself.

Reign of the Archaics
The mysteries around the Suns sporadic cycle puzzled the Archaics, an ancient race who practiced Alchemy, for eons. Every 10,000 years the Suns demise elicited a backlash which would at times severely damage Artalys and its inhabitants. The destruction moved mountains, shifted seas and wiped many lives. During the Novus Cycle, they were once again faced with a Sun on the brink of its death.