There are no endings. Only transitions. The Gold Sun is the sun of new beginnings. Its number is 8. It is redemption, mercy, and forgiveness. Like the Red Sun, the Gold Sun is about change, but rather than just a change of state, the Gold Sun is about rehabilitation and improvement. Second chances.

The realm basking in the light of the Gold Sun is quiet. A great many of the hypermagical people called the elderbrin dwell there in nomadic villages built on sapient, self-directed rivers and isolated castles made of discarded moth chrysalises. The nights are extremely cold, but the daytime rays of the sun are quite warm. Everywhere dichotomies are in transition.

Here, they say, shattered porcelain vases reassemble on their own, if given enough time. Locks open on their own. Scars fade. Creatures once dead rise.

NIGHTSIDE OF THE GOLD SUN

We begin again, but the journey is all new. The Nightside of the Gold Sun’s number is 10, representing new beginnings and new rules. A new order on the very edge of darkness.

The Nightside of the Gold Sun focuses largely on order and control, but not—obviously—on the stagnation that often comes with such things. Instead, it represents control through altered perceptions and readjustment of values. Changing minds and changing hearts. Out with the old order, and in with the new.

Some devils and similar creatures call the Nightside of Gold their home, as well as mortals invested not just in change, but in controlling change. Change for their own ends.

The landscape here is fluid and amorphous. Crossing Gold’s Nightside is like wading through not-quite-hardened meringue—if that meringue were heaving and seething, seemingly of its own volition. The dim landscape is cool but not freezing, and windstorms are common, punctuated by periods of absolute stillness.