My longest-lasting conworld existed on the inner surface of a sphere with a light source at the center. I briefly considered having Yih (the homeworld of the yinrih) be a toroidal planet, but thought it was too out there and decided to give it a ring instead.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I haven't used any non-conventional world shapes, but I did include in my fantasy setting a binary star whose smaller sun is so dense that they were thought to be a single body up until recently. I haven't got the astrophysical chops to discern if such a thing is possible, but the idea is that these two bodies are orbiting each other very closely, bobbing back and forth visibly on an hourly basis so that the procession of the sun across the sky looks like it moves in stops and starts each hour, causing the shadows to shift all at once along the ground.

As that one of the major religions is a solar faith, the discovery of the binary star provided a rationale for certain state religions to promulgate a schism, splitting off another culture's river-based god into a solar aspect for political purposes.

https://app.kanka.io/w/7004/entities/446322