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21 minutes ago, Martin said:

Does anyone care to speculate on a list of planets that were still rising and visible in the sky during the Great Darkness?

Some planets first rose in the Darkness (Entekos and her children, Derdo (aka Lokarnos) and Vendara) but, as they spend time below the horizon died at some point during the Great Darkness. The only planet that didn't die was probably Mastakos, which is also associated with Uleria, (perhaps) the only surviving member of the Celestial Court.

When a planet rises and falls in the modern sky, it is spending time traversing the Sky and then the Underworld, indicating that it died before Time.

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53 minutes ago, Martin said:

Does anyone care to speculate on a list of planets that were still rising and visible in the sky during the Great Darkness?

Glorious ReAscent p4 (PDF) Footnote 4 [about the Reign of Manimat - PHM].  "Copper Ledgers.  Dayzatar sets and passes upward behind the sky.  Entekos, Lokarnos etc. are gone".

Also Glorious ReAscent p74 11. Fallings 

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One by one, the remaining planets and constellations
disappeared from the sky, following their master Yelm into
the Underworld. Entekos was first, followed by Lokarnos.
Dayzatar, after taking 10,000 years to traverse half the sky
(from the zenith to the horizon), he was the next to last god
to leave the world. As is well known, he then climbed outside
the Dome, thereby preventing pollution in the Underworld.
Shargash, the warrior, was the last god to succumb.

I think what happened was that Shargash sent them into the Underworld before going there himself.  

As for Uleria/Mastakos, the Glorious ReAscent p51 describes its appearance as not by rising but by accumulating material from other sky debris.  After a conjunction with Entekos, it goes onto the Sunpath and instead of rising and setting, it goes across the horizon.  So its disappearance in the Great Darkness would be a collision (with Shargash?) which shattered the planet. 

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