>>16882761Sort of like your pic Rusbro, but covered in ice. The 'earth' rotates on a 26,000 year cycle - divided into the 12 zodiac signs - we are in the age of Aquarius. So, the local yellow sun - gas excited by a black sun - melts a puddle, exposing land masses that we live on.
Even sCiEnCe mentions the poles shift. So, on one side the sun is melting ice/glaciers and the other side with a lack of sun it is freezing up. That is why you hear about climate change so much.
If we could fast forward 3,000 you would have Aus/China frozen over and new land exposed. That is why China is known as old world dynasties and North America is the new land.
It also explains why over 400 cultures have a myth about great floods. Depending on the land masses, depth of oceans and thickness of ice, you could have a giant flood released when something is melted.
If you can get up to the north pole - northern lights are the black sun blasting through our atmosphere - you don't rotate, so you can stay alive. Maybe Garden of Eden/Olympus type stuff, but you can avoid the freeze over or floods. You then stroll down from the north and inhabit a clean slate society. You enslave all the people and release technologies at your will to stay as Gods on earth.
Maybe dragons too, sea monsters for sure.