Overview
Ocera is a planet in another universe.
The surface of the world is a solid 80+ degrees Fahrenheit at all times, with very high humidity as well, including at night. It is covered in mountains and deep valleys, with many hot springs, and most of the ground is coated with dense tropical jungle and the occasional blisteringly hot desert. There is a much larger range of carnivorous plant species here than in normal jungles, and they are all large. Many of the flowers are caricaturely huge and colorful and exotic, rich-smelling, and are good to harvest for spices, juices, and flavorings, if one can safely traverse the wilderness there.
Within the planet is an immense network of caves with almost as much room as the surface. It is hot there as well, and still humid, but less so than on the surface. The rock is all a rich red, and there is plenty of obsidian and other volcanic rock because of the many lava pools and under- and above-ground volcanoes.
The land and water coverage is about equal to Earth's, but without any large unified continents, and rather a series of variously-sized archipelagos. As such, there are many beaches and coves. There are no glaciers and very little ice at all.
Pantheon
Ocera always has three deities, an Evil one, a Good one, and a Neutral one more powerful than the other two which demotes and promotes them at will.
The palace
Straddling the hollow interior of a mountain is an immense palace carved from the red stone and covered in powerful protective runes. It is many stories tall with towers overlooking both the outer and inner sides of the planet, and entrances leading to both as well. It has many bedrooms, a huge dining hall with a performance stage, an extensive library, art and music rooms, and classrooms and laboratories. The walls are reinforced with a thick layer of diamond, and a thick layer of steel. All of the doors and windows have extremely powerful deflector runes that can also be controlled by the mind linked to the house, which must be a suitably magical being's mind.
Moons and sun
Ocera has three moons, Theksar, Dizastr, and Zitan. Theksar is deep red and has a breathable (though not comfortably so) atmosphere, being the largest of the moons, and has a plentiful red glass-like metal that is a potent weakness of the Theksarsi demons on Ocera. Dizastr is blue and closest in size to Earth's moon. Zitan is white, and is the smallest.
Ocera's sun does not cover all of the planet evenly with light in its orbit, and in fact the places where it shines the most are inhospitable to any species with a maximum temperature. In these places the landscape is a baked desert.
Language
The native tongue is Oceran, unrelated to any other languages and written with its own glyphic alphabet. Some demons will also know Abyssal, Drow, or English, learned from visitors and captives.
History
Over the eons the planet has gone through ups and downs in its society, depending largely on the influence of the gods and the nature of the most powerful alpha. Long ago the gods were well-known and respected among the Theksarsi, who were very spiritual. After the gods at the time, Ceron and Aphila went dormant, the Theksarsi slowly forgot about them. Under Harziyax's reign of terror as alpha male, almost all culture and civility was lost and destroyed, and these days the Theksarsi struggle to rebuild their society as a peaceful one.
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Native races
Dizastrusi
Theksarsi
Zitansi
Natives
Aphila
Ceron
Dechaerrim
Harziyax
Rahim
Teliah
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