Tyr (Wanderstar)

Tyr is the fourth wanderster from the Sun. As the outermost of the earth-like, stony tungles, loremasters look upon Tyr as one alike unto Earth, other than Tyr being smaller, dryer, and colder. In yoretide, water flowed upon the outer husk of Tyr, and many witshippers, rockwrights, and talemasters weigh plots to make the tungle lifebearing again.

Hallmarks
One day on Tyr lasts slightly longer than on Earth; 24 stounds plus two-thirds rather than 24 stounds alone. Tyr makes one whirl about the Sun in 668 of its own days, or 687 Earth-days. This wanderer's skypath is egg-shaped rather than an even wheel, for which thing the yeartides of Tyr are not of like length as are Earth's. In the northern halfball, spring is a third again as long as fall.

Tyr's inweight is but a ninth of the inweight of Earth, though its girth is slightly more than half of the Earth's girth. The weightpull at the husk is two-fifths that of Earth. Tyr is a desert for its coldness and thin, unbreathworthy loftsea, which is but six thousandths as thick as Earth's, and mostly made from wortloft.

The rust in the dry iron stones gives Tyr its blood-red hue, for which sake it was taken in olden times for a god of fire, blood, or the clash of weapons. In Babylon the wanderer was Nirgal, to the Hindus it was Angaraka, for the Greeks, Ares, and for the Romans, Mars.