King's Cup Constellation

the Chalice

Of the three constellations made by the three clusters of permanent stars in Alanspace, the King's Cup is the one most forget and least thought about. There are several reasons for this. The first of which is that King's Cup is the hardest to recognize in the sky if one does not know what they are looking for, and where to look. Unlike Draco Constellation and Orion Constellation, who's stars are brighter than the surrounding ones, King's Cup stars are not as prominent. It is also the constellation whose lore and shape have changed the most over the ages. For the ancients of Craddle Valley it was a great bull. To the Novya of the Lakorthian Age it was a horseless wagon, and on the major continent of Dergonhad it was a dragon, folding its wings as it flies away from the world. The constellation has only taken on its current iconography as a chalice in the Novyum Age.

The King's Cup has ten major stars. It appears the most prominent in the mid centuries of the Celestial Cycle, as the sun, Uatu, and with it the planet Aldern, is closest to it. In the latter half of the Cycle when Juva is between the King's Cup and Aldern the brightness of Juva makes it hard to differentiate the constellations stars from any of the others surrounding it. This is yet another reason it is often the forgotten constellation of the three.