RPG Campaign Tour Challenge 2026, Day 4 - A little bit about AB-5.5's neighborhood

Moving along at an insufficient-but-better-than-average-for-this-blogger pace in this month's Campaign Tour Challenge, I have a bit more regarding the Fifth Moon of Elysia...

(Looking back to Adam's original post for guidance...)

Day 4 - Is there a map?
Give us a visual! Show us a map of your setting! Don't have one? WHY NOT?!?

Well, I didn't have one, but I found enough spare moments at work yesterday (don't tell anyone plz) to put together a rough...well, diagram, I guess.  This certainly isn't a proper map, as it definitely isn't to scale space-wise (after all, scale is actually pretty insane when it comes to astronomy), and the planets don't normally line up like this.  (Although I bet some really crazy magical stuff happens on the rare occasion they do!)

At any rate...here are the first five planets in the star system containing the planet Elysia, whose fifth moon (AB-5.5) is the starting point for this setting:

And while the spaces between them are obviously out of whack, I'd say the relative sizes of the planets themselves are probably pretty close to "accurate."  (And yeah, the sun over there on the left probably matches the inaccurate scaling of space more than the relative sizing of the planets...)  In order of average orbit distance from their sun, here's what interplanetary explorers think they've figured out at this point...

1. Aerona - A gaseous planet where most life is found on magically-floating landmasses or perpetually-flying aircraft.

2. Benthiko - Ocean planet!

3. Chalcothon - Ruled by metallic dragons...IN SPACE!  Well, they're in space when they leave the atmosphere of Chalcothon.  Which they do, often!

4. Duresta - It's yellow here, so...desert planet!  (Maybe...?)

5. Elysia - The heart of it all!  Like the metaphysically connected realms of Eternia and Etheria, Elysia is home to people, places, and artifacts of great magic.

Beyond Elysia, there's a big old asteroid belt that probably has a bunch of other ridiculously cool things going on in it, and then there are a number of planets even farther out.  Definitely some gas giants with inhabited moons.  (I actually really like the idea of keeping aspects of the system intentionally vague for as long as possible so that details can be filled in through play.)  But those five up there...those are the high points of the neighborhood for now.

And Elysia, of course, has nine moons.  Sometimes ten!  More on that later today...!

🤞 (for luck)