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Lumar is located in an unknown star system considered a backwater of the cosmere.{{book ref|tress|18}} The planet is surrounded by a set of twelve moons, each hanging in equidistant, geostationary orbits oppressively close to the surface.{{book ref|tress|1}} Each moon is home to one of the twelve [[aether]]s; those aethers produce spores, which rain down on Lumar's surface in great, perpetual falls known as [[lunagree]]s. As a result, the entire planet is covered by oceans of aether spores.{{book ref|tress|28}}{{book ref|tress|1}} The seas and moons figure heavily in the local language, with many people swearing by the moons or using phrases like "how on the seas".{{book ref|tress|41}}
Owing to the moons being of equal distance to one another, each sea is of the same size, and roughly the same pentagonal shape.{{book ref|tress|42}} This functions geometrically as twelve pentagons can tesselate the sphere, and due to the shape of the seas and the planet, each sea would border five others, with three around each vertex. . The surface is uneven -- each sea is effectively a pile of sand, highest at the lunagree and lower on the border, where spores of the neighboring seas intermingle. However, the sheer size of the seas makes the incline imperceptible unless one is extremely close to the peak.{{book ref|tress|46}} Far below the surface, the seafloor is full of thermal vents that pump out great amounts of air bubbles. This leads to the spores [[wikipedia:Fluidization|fluidizing]], which makes the oceans behave akin to liquid. The locals call this process '''the seethe'''. The seethe usually lasts for days at a time; however, it will commonly pause for varying periods of time, leaving all ships sailing across it '''sporelocked''' until it picks up again.{{book ref|tress|8}} During those periods of calm, the ocean is solid enough to walk on, though one must exercise great care when doing so.{{book ref|tress|12}}
The seas are not especially deep, measuring only a few hundred yards at their deepest.{{book ref|tress|51}}
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