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The Mountain-of-Light is a living mountain in the far south of [[The Elder Continent]].
[[File:Mountainglow.png|thumb|200px|The Mountain. Art from Fallen London.]]The Mountain of Light is many things: a living mountain far to the south of the Presbyterate, a zee-god called Stone, the source of the Wax Wind, the daughter of [[The Echo Bazaar|the Bazaar]] and the Sun, the mother of Mt. Nomad with the mysterious Thief-of-Faces. People from around [[the Elder Continent]] regularly make pilgrimages to her, and sometimes they clip relics (called Mountain-Sherds) from her slopes.
[[File:Mountainglow.png|thumb|200px|The Mountain. Art from Fallen London.]]
== General knowledge ==
The Mountain-of-Light is many things. It is a mountain far to the south of the Presbyterate. She is also a god called Stone. People from [[Varchas]] and some other places in the Elder Continent regularly make pilgrimages to her.


A Mountain-Sherd is a holy relic chipped from the side of Stone.
The Mountain is also wounded, though the cause of this wound is unknown; her blood forms the Nameless River, whose estuary into the Unterzee is called Adam's Way.
 
She is likely named after the diamond known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-Noor Koh-i-Noor] (Mountain of Light in Persian). This diamond was once the largest in the world, and passed through the hands of the Kakatiya dynasty in India, the Persian Empire, and the British Empire. It is now a part of Queen Elizabeth II's crown.
The Mountain is wounded. Its blood forms a river known to some as the Nameless River<ref>Wriothesley's journal[http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Wriothesley?fromEchoId=7140953]</ref>, but the estuary is called Adam's Way<ref>[http://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Adam%27s_Way][http://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Adam%27s_Way][http://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Adam%27s_Way] Sunless Sea wiki: Adam's Way</ref>.
 
== Mystery ==
Possible spoilers:
 
<font color="black"><span style="background-color: black">[[Mount Nomad]] is the child of the Mountain and the Thief-of-Faces.
Mountain of Light is also the Messenger's daughter - or rather, the child of the Bazaar and the Sun.</span></font>
 
== Real world connections ==
The Mountain is likely named after the diamond known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-Noor#Acquisition_by_the_Persians Koh-i-Noor], which means Mountain-of-Light in Persian. This diamond was once the largest in the world, and passed through the hands of the Kaktiya dynasty in India, the Persian Empire, and the British empire. Another diamond with a similar history but remaining in Iran is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daria-i-Noor Daria-i-Noor], or Sea of Light.
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Revision as of 02:31, 30 November 2015

The Mountain. Art from Fallen London.

The Mountain of Light is many things: a living mountain far to the south of the Presbyterate, a zee-god called Stone, the source of the Wax Wind, the daughter of the Bazaar and the Sun, the mother of Mt. Nomad with the mysterious Thief-of-Faces. People from around the Elder Continent regularly make pilgrimages to her, and sometimes they clip relics (called Mountain-Sherds) from her slopes.

The Mountain is also wounded, though the cause of this wound is unknown; her blood forms the Nameless River, whose estuary into the Unterzee is called Adam's Way. She is likely named after the diamond known as the Koh-i-Noor (Mountain of Light in Persian). This diamond was once the largest in the world, and passed through the hands of the Kakatiya dynasty in India, the Persian Empire, and the British Empire. It is now a part of Queen Elizabeth II's crown.