Girnas

Girnas is the fourth planet orbiting Rican. Girnas's gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially Rican, the other eight planets of the Ricanor System and Girnas's three natural satellites, Erpen, Pict and Hersen. Girnas revolves around Rican in 227 (Morkean) days, a period known as a Girnean year. Observations from Morkas suggest that as the rotation of Girnas is slower than Morkas then, to an observer on Girnas, a Girnean year has 336 Girnean days.

Observations from Morkas seem to indicate that Girnas has a thin, pale blue atmosphere and a verdant surface. The surface area of Girnas has been estimated at over 5,900 hexes, or approximately 5,343,600 sq mi, as the planet is thought to be larger than Morkas.

Girnas has three natural satellites, Erpen - a medium-sized, rusty-red, cratered moon, Pict - a tiny, rocky, cratered moon, and Hersen - a tiny, blue-green moon with a thin pale-blue aura.

Name
The name Girnas comes from the Thanorian Girn from Girenen, the pre-Rethist God of Creation (of which the world was believed to be his resting place), and the suffix -as meaning "place, position" or less directly "land".