Red Star

The Red Star is a mysterious heavenly body which appeared at the culmination of the Week of Nightmares on July 15 1999. Known as Wormwood to vampires, Anthelios (the anti-sun) to werewolves, the Eye of Balor to Changelings, the Red Star was seen by most supernaturals as being a sign of the End Times.

Anthelios

It was initially unable to be seen by mundane forms of perception. It could be seen in the Umbra, the Dreaming and the Shadowland

As the end times neared, it brightened enough to be viewed by everyone. NASA declared the Red Star stellar object 2001KX76, theorizing it was a reddish-coloured comet heading for Earth. By the rules of NASA's provisional designations, this would mean it was the 1,923rd object discovered in the second half of May, 2001, suggesting this is roughly when it became visible to mortals.

Background Information

There was, at the time, an actual stellar object with the provisional designation of 2001 KX₇₆, which is a trans-Neptunian Kuiper Belt object. It is, in fact, reddish in colour, although far too small and distant to be seen with the naked eye. Coincidentally, it has since been named 28978 Ixion, after Ixion, the Greek equivalent of Caine. Ixion (in the form of the Ixoi and the Knife of Ixion) is relevant to Ascension's main scenario.

Sources

• War Across the Heavens
• Apocalypse
• Time of Thin Blood
• Denizens of the Dreaming

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