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[[Image:Summer Holiday Demisiv 2.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Summer holiday: thousands of Demisiv make the annual pilgrimage to the Lake Isles "Nightless Days Festival" in the north polar region of the planet]]The seventh and only inhabited planet of the star 16 Aurigae, a golden-orange K-type star (K3, possibly IIIb) 95 times more luminous than the Sun, and 21 times its diameter. 16 Aur is a spectroscopic binary, its smaller companion taking about a year to orbit it; and it also travels in company with several other stars that are gravitationally associated. (For more info see the [http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2008Obs...128...21G SAO / Nasa Astrophysics] article.) Also used to denote a member of the dominant species of 16 Aur VII.
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[[Image:Summer Holiday Demisiv 2.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Summer holiday: thousands of Demisiv make the annual pilgrimage to the Lake Isles "Nightless Days Festival" in the north polar region of the planet]]The seventh and only inhabited planet of the [[16 Aurigae]] star system. Also used to denote a member of the dominant species of 16 Aur VII.
  
 
The planet has no oceans, only many chains of lakes left over from some earlier glaciation.  Over this huge and only sparsely-interrupted landmass, the Demisiv people, who could easily be mistaken for conifer-like trees, roam in vast mobile forests.  They have very long lifespans -- routinely hundreds of (Earth) years long -- and also a very long [[latency]] period, so that wizards of that species spend very long periods at surprisingly high power levels.  In [[WAW]], [[Swale, Tom | Tom Swale]] mentions that because of this prolonged latency period, [[Filif | Filif's]] people will have enough wizards on hand, even in the present emergency, to leave Filif free to stay on Earth and work with [[Nita]] and [[Kit]] on getting at the root cause (ouch...) of the crisis. ([[WH]], [[WAW]])
 
The planet has no oceans, only many chains of lakes left over from some earlier glaciation.  Over this huge and only sparsely-interrupted landmass, the Demisiv people, who could easily be mistaken for conifer-like trees, roam in vast mobile forests.  They have very long lifespans -- routinely hundreds of (Earth) years long -- and also a very long [[latency]] period, so that wizards of that species spend very long periods at surprisingly high power levels.  In [[WAW]], [[Swale, Tom | Tom Swale]] mentions that because of this prolonged latency period, [[Filif | Filif's]] people will have enough wizards on hand, even in the present emergency, to leave Filif free to stay on Earth and work with [[Nita]] and [[Kit]] on getting at the root cause (ouch...) of the crisis. ([[WH]], [[WAW]])

Latest revision as of 09:44, 30 January 2021

File:Summer Holiday Demisiv 2.jpg
Summer holiday: thousands of Demisiv make the annual pilgrimage to the Lake Isles "Nightless Days Festival" in the north polar region of the planet

The seventh and only inhabited planet of the 16 Aurigae star system. Also used to denote a member of the dominant species of 16 Aur VII.

The planet has no oceans, only many chains of lakes left over from some earlier glaciation. Over this huge and only sparsely-interrupted landmass, the Demisiv people, who could easily be mistaken for conifer-like trees, roam in vast mobile forests. They have very long lifespans -- routinely hundreds of (Earth) years long -- and also a very long latency period, so that wizards of that species spend very long periods at surprisingly high power levels. In WAW, Tom Swale mentions that because of this prolonged latency period, Filif's people will have enough wizards on hand, even in the present emergency, to leave Filif free to stay on Earth and work with Nita and Kit on getting at the root cause (ouch...) of the crisis. (WH, WAW)

(See also: Filifermanhathrhumneits'elhessaiffnth.)