Vygos

Vygos is the commonly-used name for the planet. Linguists have not yet discovered the origin of the word, but it appears to have entered Erullian, Goblin, Dwarven and Elf from the same unknown root.

It is widely understood in all of Vygos's advanced civilizations that it is a spherical world with an equatorial diameter of around 8,000 miles. It is the closest satellite to its star, Pelor. It orbits the star once every 360 days and rotates on its axis once every 24 hours.

Vygos has a satellite of its own, The Traveler. It is misshapen, with an erratic, low orbit. Ancient records seem to indicate that the planetoid was captured by Vygos's gravity well sometime in recorded history. The Traveler's unpredictable path accounts for the dangerous nature of Vygos's oceans.

Sea travel is so dangerous, in fact, that all the known civilizations have failed to explore beyond the large continent which dominates one of the planet's hemispheres. Scholars believe there must be another large land mass on the opposite side, but no vessel has returned from an attempt to find it.