Auralic Atmosphere

The Auralic Atmosphere is an empathically reactive sky suffused with bio-luminous and neurochemical compounds. It glows with living color and shifts in tone and hue with the emotional state of its inhabitants. Among the Continuum Universes, Auralic-class worlds are known as the Singing Planets, where weather, mood, and song are indistinguishable.

Composition and Behavior

The base atmosphere is nitrogen-oxygen, but the defining components are Lumestra and Synphorine — two delicate organics whose effects intertwine. Lumestra emits coherent light through quantum biofluorescence, bathing the sky in auroral hues. Synphorine acts as a neural alkaloid carried in airborne form, enabling low-level empathic synchronization among sentient organisms. Together, they generate a continuous, low-frequency emotional field measurable as “Auralic Resonance.”

Atmospheric currents act like synapses: emotion travels as literal weather. A continent’s joy manifests as dawn-pink haze; its sorrow, as pale indigo fog.

Environmental Characteristics

• Pressure: 1.1 atm
• Temperature: 288–298 K — mild and stable
• Visuals: Soft teal luminescence by night; sky pulses faintly in rhythm with psionic waves.
• Auditory: A harmonic hum perceptible only in silence; frequency increases in population centers.
• Chemical Stability: Fragile — Lumestra oxidizes rapidly without psionic reinforcement.

Phenomena

• Lightstorms: Atmospheric surges of radiant emotion — sudden, luminous storms triggered by collective feeling.
• Empathic Bloom: When populations experience unity or grief, the sky flares in corresponding hue, visible from orbit.
• The Silence: Periodic emotional blackouts where Lumestra ceases luminescence, believed to represent atmospheric mourning.

Interactions

Exposure to Auralic air enhances empathy and social cohesion but can overwhelm individual identity. Artists, telepaths, and mystics report “synesthetic fusion” — seeing color through emotion and hearing tone in thought. Pilgrims come to these worlds seeking “the mercy of shared sorrow,” for the atmosphere itself offers comfort.

Cultural and Theological Notes

Auralic air is considered sacred by the Order of Ilum, who teach that it was the first attempt by creation to *feel itself.* The Grand Archive Division of Xenopsionics maintains that these worlds represent a stable, non-destructive evolution of the Memetic archetype: cognition externalized into empathy rather than memory. Legends claim that the bioluminescent clouds are the afterglow of the First-Flames’ tears at the fall of Malis.

Associated Gases

Lumestra • Synphorine • Dream Amine

See Also

• Lucidmist Atmosphere
• Memetic Atmosphere
• Continuum Atmospheric Compendium