“Sirius B dreamed aloud last cycle — old fusion-memories from when it was a giant. Sirius stayed up all night listening and won't say what it heard.”
The white dwarf remembers
Common · One of 400
Sirius B
“A white dwarf smaller than Earth holding about 98% of the Sun's mass — a burned-out stellar core; Sirius B is small, ancient, and impossibly heavy.”
A Umbral world of The Eclipsed
3 known connections · an open question
The living story
The story so far
Sirius B is the burned-out core of a star, smaller than Earth but holding nearly the Sun's entire mass. It once outshone its brilliant companion, and now it is a cooling ember in a 50-year orbit that remembers being magnificent without missing it.
Happening now
It drifts beside brilliant Sirius, invisible to the naked eye and unbothered by the attention its companion steals. The Eclipsed treat it as their quiet founder, and it has started telling its life story, very slowly, to anyone patient enough.
What may come
It will cool for trillions of years, outlasting nearly everything it knows. When the last court has fallen silent, Sirius B will still be glowing faintly — which it finds neither sad nor comforting, simply true.
Connected
Whispers about Sirius B
The Eclipsed
Stellar remnants — a black hole, a neutron star, a white dwarf, a magnetar. They are not evil. They are finished.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Umbral
- Court
- The Eclipsed — the silent, feared ones
- Rarity
- Common
- Edition
- One of 400
- Stats
- power 56 · speed 18 · charm 52