Moons: Thea and Themsa

Helevos has two small moons.

Thea

Thea is the larger moon, a disc about half the size of Earth's moon, and much less bright. It's surface is ochre, giving Thea a pinkish light in the night sky. The moon was a planetoid that captured in Helevos' late cooling stage, approximately 2.7 billion years ago.

Thea is the "official" Miyarrain name: in the north it is called the Eye, the Red Moon, or just the moon.

Themsa

Themsa is a small, silvery, potato-shaped moon that spins through the sky on it's long axis, like the hands of a clock - so much so that one rotation is the basis of an hour in the Hirèrk Moonscale.

The smaller second moon was almost certainly a large asteroid that narrowly avoided striking the surface, and instead was captured in orbit. Like the planet Mars' small moons, Deimos and Phobos, Themsa is roughly potato-shaped. It has a large crater visible at one end, the result of an impact that set the moon spinning on it's vertical axis.

Moon-Tides

Both moons probably caused tidal friction during their capture, but today their small mass creates only very small tidal influences on the planet, compared with the semi-annual cycle of Storm Tides.