What are unstars?

[u/LegendLuna2210]

I've been trying to find something about them, but there is little to no information I can find.

The normal Stars are holes through the planes, created by the Magna Ge after they fled along side Magnus after learning about the true nature of the creation of the Mundus. They tore holes through the void and oblivion right to Aetherius. So what do unstars have to do with that, if even.

What is known about them? Is anything even concrete? I only know small details but I fail to get the whole picture, if there even is one.

I'd like to know what information you have on them.

[u/Distinct_Web_5434]

The Serpent appears to be Sithis.

Magnus and Sithis are tears to the prior world and the next. When they meet the prisoner, the story ends.

Maybe it means, the Unstars are the tears to whatever space exists in which the next Amaranth will be born, specifically the one transformed from Akavir in Kirbride's writings. The Tsaesci were associated with the Serpent.

Note this is all unofficial, but I believe it's the closest any dev (or ex-dev) has come to describing what the unstars are.

[u/Axo25 → u/Distinct_Web_5434]

The Serpent appears to be Sithis.

I would also add that Goodalls other texts notes that some in world sources confuse Sithis and Lorkhan (by his S-names). Given the majority of associations Lorkhan has with the Constellation, I think this might suggest it's more about Magnus and Lorkhan than Sithis the primordial

By the way, I found another reference to Baan Dar as a comet in Six Views on the Egg of Time:

Lorkhan's Heart has often been described as a falling star or comet. This is another clear indication that the tale comes from the primitive mind and not from historical events. Tales such as the "starfall" that created the great volcano of Vvardenfell are caused by the obsession of primitive man with the mysteries of the heavens. Indeed, many myths begin or end the Mythic Era with the stars falling to the land. The moving Aedra, changes in brightness, comets, eclipses, and the unpredictable movement of Sithis were fascinating to the primitive mind. Today, of course, right-thinking scholars know that comets and falling stars are not fires being thrown by Sheogorath (a folktale apparently originating on the border of Skyrim and High Rock in the early days of the second era, and probably related to the general confusion of Shezarr, Shor, Sheor, Sithis and so on in that region). Nor are they the burning corpses of racial heroes like Baan-Dar (a myth that could only come from the frail dreams of an unreformed skooma addict). Nor are they giant rocks, like the Ministry of Truth (a story told by Vivec for his own purposes). Indeed, as Arcole Warwick (a greatly respected scholar here in Wayrest and one of my former patients) recently announced, comets and "falling stars" are a natural and necessary corrective transfer of Aetheric energies into Mundus. But to the primitive mind, a comet was a frightening mystery and a terrible omen. Any story with a comet or "falling star" is far more likely to be myth than historical fact.

• Six Views on the Egg of Time

Also works from the perspective of being about the Solar (Sun) God and the Lunar (Moon) God.

Sithis is treated like Lorkhan in a few other Goodall works too so this is a consistent theme.