Rastram Kanaqa

Themes: Imperial India, solarpunk, glass & gold, Sanskrit language

• "The Golden Empire" made up of six of the nine planets of the system, though they control all nine (the other three are a colony world, a penal world, and an uninhabited protectorate).
• Advanced civilization that produces and uses most of the thevaqan in the Four Suns.
• Once a solar theocracy, their culture has long since separated its thevaqan-technologies from its religious orders, forming the Suryavarna faith, and the Sunwrights, the engineers who craft thevaqan into useful ships and tools.

Suryavarna

Religion

• Spirit Pyres: Injected with a substance that causes the skin to ignite and burn away the body entirely, leaving behind a weird statue of golden glass. Fate of all "sainted" folk in the solar religion, including all Emanations.