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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Centaur" data-source="post: 1034976" data-attributes="member: 11822">On earth, both the sun and the moon have an effect on our tides, when the two line up, our tides are often at their most extreams (full moon and new moon).  Of course, the sun has less of an effect on the tides as does the moon.If you have more than one moon, you can expect realy strong tides and some unusual tide patterns.  When the two moons line up together, you will have some realy insane tide levels.This generaly means that it will be dangerous to live as near the water as some people on earth do now.  People will tend to build further back from the ocean.More than one sun would produce some realy interesting weather patterns.  Our weather is caused by a combination of the earths rotation and the warming action of the sun.  As the earth gets warmer, the weather extreams get more intense.What you could do is have your plannet orbit one star much like our earth orbits the sun.  Then have another smaller sun orbit the same star a little further out.  If you assume that the the primary star heats the planet much like our sun heats the earth, then that would produce similar weather much of the time.However, when the orbit of the smaller star comes close to the plannet, much like mars does every couple of years, things would get much warmer, more rain, more flash floods, more extreams.Then there is the concepts of magic.  If you assume that the stars or the moons have any influence on level of magic in the world, it could get real interesting.  If the second star repesents a specific god, say a chaotic one, and it's followers get more powerful as he gets closer, things could get fun....Hope this helps.</blockquote>

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