Eye of Stratos

The Eye of Stratos is a name given to the obscured sun of Pagan.

History
Before the rise of the four Titans, Pagan's sky was illuminated by a star and had a typical day night cycle. Then the Titans embodied themselves within the Great Temple and waged their cataclysmic battle against the Destroyer, however, the changes that ravaged the world were extreme to the point that the sun was obscured, plunging the realm of Pagan into eternal twilight.

It has never been made fully explicit how or why the sun ceased to be visible from Pagan's surface, although accounts by both the theurgist Stellos and the scholar Remvatos seem to imply that some sort of magical cloud obfuscates the sun from sight. Whatever the cause of the world's darkness, the years following this radical change to Pagan's environment saw the dying off of most flowering plants and a wide array of animal life dependent on them. Eventually the landscape came to be dominated by mushrooms, lichens and mosses, which flourished in the dim light. Mankind appears to have adapted to the transformation of Pagan as well, with their eyes adjusting to the twilight such that the sight of the unveiled sun is said to have struck Stellos blind when he beheld it.

In time, the very existence of the Pagan sun appears to have passed into the realm of legend. During the Avatar's travels in the realm, the Sorcerer Malchir would summon Pyros himself to ask him about the mythological celestial body, although the Titan denied any knowledge of the topic.