About your one headcanon post regarding Ectonurites: I remember having this kind of silly idea once that the High Ecto-Lord of Anur-Transyl is also in charge of religious affairs in addition to general ruling (basically being their version of the pope in a sense) which is why Zs’Skayr dons his skin like a cloak in Omniverse, with traditional Ectonurite religious doctrine teaching that the sun deity is basically their equivalent of the Devil who will immediately “kill” them on sight and thus they need to either hide or disguise themselves from them (whether through staying indoors, their sun-skin, parasols, or possession of bodies either real or artificial) and Zs’Skayr attempting to use this as a way to get his subjects on board with his plans, claiming he was finally “vanquishing” the sun’s evil and “exterminating”/“purifying” its “demons” (aka species that need the sun to live)
Ooo a Theocracy, or at the minimum a theocratic absolute elective monarchy if it’s less ‘God has appointed thee to govern its land’ and more ‘High Ecto-Lord = Priest-King’ between Anur Phaetos and the wider Anur System (maybe a former and latter respectively?), maybe even something a little less… like an oligarchy equivalent where the priesthood has significant influence in Phaetan politics even if they themselves aren’t ruling under one religion. Either way it’s really really interesting for worldbuilding implications, especially since if the sun (or ultraviolet radiation) which could be considered demonic can actually ‘smite’ or I suppose ‘collect’ innocent souls. Very easy for early ectonurite civilisations and eons of evolutionary history to view that as ‘evidence’ of the existence of divinity even if infernal in nature, at least until science gets developed and atheist and agnostic circles have concrete reasons to disagree-
Heh, I can imagine the cultural differences between [insert name for religion a ‘High Ecto-Lord’ is a part of] and atheist ectonurites, where of course everyone would do their part to protect themselves from the sun (because it is literally an active threat, even in funerals because it puts unnecessary risk on the cyst stage), but the differences come in the home or on planets with little to no UV rays. Like religious folk would retain their cloak or hell, there’s the equivalent to *looks at religions i vaguely know enough to compare* nuns where ectonurites would be in constant possession of sunsuits, whereas atheists would shed their skin and close their parasols and kinda let the body breathe so to speak (functionally the sun skin doesn’t restrict anything since it’s a natural biological process - even if not everyone has the same potentially mindless experience with it - but some folk like the permanence of styling their underbody rather than the rather fragile temporary skin they can damage with wear and tear).
Heh, if Zs’Skayr has a religious motivation to block the sun on Earth, he and the rest of his potentially extremist kin would really inherently hate Pyros and pyronites. If Earth is ‘hell-touched’ with its sun corrupted life, Pyros would be the text-book definition of a hellscape and consequently their people would be the closest things to real life hellspawn, which isn’t exactly um… all that great now is it? Hell, depending on how you headcanon the Anur System as well as if you extrapolate what has in some way been said about it’s planets, you might even say the most extreme may have problems with Anur Khufos and thep khufan, who though culturally also remain in the dark, they come from a planet with so much sun it’s surface is largely one of dry desert heat!
Of course as High Ecto-Lord - one officially recognised in the Anur Transyl polity - Zs’Skayr is hardly in the position to agree with those kinds of folk, especially since he may not be the sole political power on this united Anurian community. But, when does that stop political figures anyway, particularly the religious types :P
