
Numenera RPG: Edge of the Sun
The sun is destined to destroy its children. Eventually, it will swallow all the planets closest to it and eject the rest into the infinite darkness. Already, the sun’s nearest child—the planet Mercury—is long gone. But not because it was eaten by the sun. At least, not directly. Did some power of the prior worlds intervene in the sun’s natural aging process? Was their power truly that great? Doing so would have required a bigger-than-worlds engineering project. Could they have dismantled an entire world for building material? What other wonders did they achieve? All that can be said for certain is that something now lingers at the very edge of the sun. Something vast, artificial, and ancient. Is this colossal enigmatic structure the reason that the sun’s luminosity and size has remained relatively steady, even as civilization after civilization on Earth rose and fell? Or is something else even more mysterious the cause? Whatever the case, it’s a marvel. But even marvels of the prior w