The Animus Aurora

The Animus Aurora is a physical and spiritual phenominon which is most prominent in the skies above The Starlit Sea but can occasionally extend for hundreds of miles past the border of Polaris.

Description
Generally thought to caused by the venting of power accumulated from The Wishing Star, the Animus Aurora is visible as a shifting display of prismatic light in the skies above the Starlit Sea, and is most prominant at night. The display of power seems distant from the ground, but it actually appears throughout both the lower and upper atmosphere, and parts of it rarely reach the lowest part of the atmosphere in the form of Glowfog, a dangerous but usually non-fatal form of weather.

The Aurora usually- but not always- drifts with the wind, and may rarely extend for great distances over the open ocean.

History
The Aurora has existed as a notable but generally harmless curiousity of the northern lands for longer than any race has lived. Given the infrequent appearance of Glowfog, it only has any real bearing on the predatory birds who dwell on Polaris, who often display unusual traits as a result of long interaction.

The one major effect the sky lights have is the alteration of trade routes. An airship can travel through a manifestation of the Aurora for only a few hours before the elemental powering the ship dies, and the more destructive areas of aurora can blast a ship to ashes in minutes. As such, the skies above Polaris are almost universally avoided, and lengthy trips around the continent must be made by any captain wishing to make port at The City of Peace Abiding.

There have also been a few incidents where various people have claimed that the Aurora has spoken to them in dreams or appeared to them as a humanoid in the fog. While this is not entirely impossible, it is decidedly more likely that they have mistaken the Aurora for a contact from a Servant.