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{{Major spoiler small}}Amber can be infused with various colors of the [[Neathbow]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Claim_a_consignment_of_seized_amber|Claim a consignment of seized amber|Fallen London}} ''"Amber tumbles through your fingers like jewelled rain. It is warm beneath your palms, and it sings of transformation. Deep reds, fecund greens, the blues of lost lightning."''</ref> like [[irrigo]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Something_diplomatic|Something diplomatic|Fallen London}} ''"'Irrigo + Proto-City = Non-Memory. [...].' Three passphrase-slips accompany a chunk of oddly coloured amber. When you touch the amber, you hear yourself speak unexpected words."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Sky_(10_FATE)|The Sky (10 FATE)|Fallen London}} ''"Irrigo-drenched amber, secreted in the galleries of Flute Street, treated in the depths of the Nadir, surges from the nozzles beneath your craft."''</ref> While not explicitly stated, the properties of green-tinted '''Fecund Amber'''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Fecund_Amber_Tiara|Fecund Amber Tiara|Fallen London}} ''"It's all glowy. It smells good. It gives everyone such lovely dreams. What could go wrong?"''</ref> imply that it is infused with [[viric]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Nodule_of_Fecund_Amber|Nodule of Fecund Amber|Fallen London}} ''"It glows like sunlight through leaves. It smells like mushrooms in a storm. Leave it by a window-box, and half-fungoid bubbles will sprout like recurring dreams."''</ref> The most potent of amber is the irrigo-soaked<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Fluke-Core|Fluke-Core|Fallen London}} ''"Sentiments and histories coil, prisoned by irrigo as the irrigo is prisoned by amber. Mourn the mind that has passed."''</ref> core of a [[Flukes|Fluke]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Why_%E2%80%93|Why –|Fallen London}} ''"Violet light flares and, for a few moments, stutters. The Fluke fissures: it becomes an expanding wheel of dark fragments, gently drifting apart in perfect unity. A single gleaming nodule of violet amber washes up on the pool's edge."''</ref> which contains ancient memories.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Extract_regretful_shapes_from_a_Fluke-Core|Extract regretful shapes from a Fluke-Core|Fallen London}} ''"In the curlicues of its crystalline structure, the fluke-core remembers the detritus of extinctions past. [...] Long, bent shells that trapped air until the oceans became too dense, and crushed them. Delicate wings turned to gossamer webs that filtered food out of the air, until the air grew too hot for fragile and flammable things."''</ref> | {{Major spoiler small}}<blockquote>''"Amber tumbles through your fingers like jewelled rain. It is warm beneath your palms, and it sings of transformation. Deep reds, fecund greens, the blues of lost lightning."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Claim_a_consignment_of_seized_amber|Claim a consignment of seized amber|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>Amber can be infused with various colors of the [[Neathbow]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Claim_a_consignment_of_seized_amber|Claim a consignment of seized amber|Fallen London}} ''"Amber tumbles through your fingers like jewelled rain. It is warm beneath your palms, and it sings of transformation. Deep reds, fecund greens, the blues of lost lightning."''</ref> like [[irrigo]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Something_diplomatic|Something diplomatic|Fallen London}} ''"'Irrigo + Proto-City = Non-Memory. [...].' Three passphrase-slips accompany a chunk of oddly coloured amber. When you touch the amber, you hear yourself speak unexpected words."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Sky_(10_FATE)|The Sky (10 FATE)|Fallen London}} ''"Irrigo-drenched amber, secreted in the galleries of Flute Street, treated in the depths of the Nadir, surges from the nozzles beneath your craft."''</ref> While not explicitly stated, the properties of green-tinted '''Fecund Amber'''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Fecund_Amber_Tiara|Fecund Amber Tiara|Fallen London}} ''"It's all glowy. It smells good. It gives everyone such lovely dreams. What could go wrong?"''</ref> imply that it is infused with [[viric]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Nodule_of_Fecund_Amber|Nodule of Fecund Amber|Fallen London}} ''"It glows like sunlight through leaves. It smells like mushrooms in a storm. Leave it by a window-box, and half-fungoid bubbles will sprout like recurring dreams."''</ref> The most potent of amber is the irrigo-soaked<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Fluke-Core|Fluke-Core|Fallen London}} ''"Sentiments and histories coil, prisoned by irrigo as the irrigo is prisoned by amber. Mourn the mind that has passed."''</ref> core of a [[Flukes|Fluke]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Why_%E2%80%93|Why –|Fallen London}} ''"Violet light flares and, for a few moments, stutters. The Fluke fissures: it becomes an expanding wheel of dark fragments, gently drifting apart in perfect unity. A single gleaming nodule of violet amber washes up on the pool's edge."''</ref> which contains ancient memories.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Extract_regretful_shapes_from_a_Fluke-Core|Extract regretful shapes from a Fluke-Core|Fallen London}} ''"In the curlicues of its crystalline structure, the fluke-core remembers the detritus of extinctions past. [...] Long, bent shells that trapped air until the oceans became too dense, and crushed them. Delicate wings turned to gossamer webs that filtered food out of the air, until the air grew too hot for fragile and flammable things."''</ref> | ||
Apocyanic amber<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/%22I_bring_the_Bazaar.%22|'I bring the Bazaar.'|Fallen London}} ''"[...] this throbbing chunk of altered amber could be the key to the Bazaar's defences. [...] You paid dearly to get this apocyanic lump into the spire, and more dearly still to get it out, once it had absorbed the imprint you needed."''</ref> is also known to exist, as is blood-red amber<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Cautious_Bracer|Cautious Bracer|Fallen London}} ''"A band of blood-red amber; an anchor to an unchanged self."''</ref> (although it is unclear whether the latter has any specific properties or Neathbow infusion). | Apocyanic amber<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/%22I_bring_the_Bazaar.%22|'I bring the Bazaar.'|Fallen London}} ''"[...] this throbbing chunk of altered amber could be the key to the Bazaar's defences. [...] You paid dearly to get this apocyanic lump into the spire, and more dearly still to get it out, once it had absorbed the imprint you needed."''</ref> is also known to exist, as is blood-red amber<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Cautious_Bracer|Cautious Bracer|Fallen London}} ''"A band of blood-red amber; an anchor to an unchanged self."''</ref> (although it is unclear whether the latter has any specific properties or Neathbow infusion). | ||
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==Amber in the Skies== | ==Amber in the Skies== | ||
The [[Rubbery Men]] who have taken up residence in the [[House of Rods and Chains]] have not lost their fondness for amber. As of 1905, they run the '''Rubbery Market''' to trade in it,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Rubbery_Market|The Rubbery Market|Sunless Skies}} ''"They trade in amber, a naturally exuded substance of their kind, making trade more ceremonial than commercial."''</ref> and still use it for shaping.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Shapeling_Vats|The Shapeling Vats|Sunless Skies}} ''"You carefully traverse a thin, treacherous path lined with endless deep, slime filled cavities and basins. All around, the Rubberies work at refining and reshaping amber into new forms and colours."''</ref> It still comes in a variety of colors: beige, red, green, blue, gold. | <blockquote>''"You carefully traverse a thin, treacherous path lined with endless deep, slime filled cavities and basins. All around, the Rubberies work at refining and reshaping amber into new forms and colours."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Shapeling_Vats|The Shapeling Vats|Sunless Skies|}}</ref></blockquote>The [[Rubbery Men]] who have taken up residence in the [[House of Rods and Chains]] have not lost their fondness for amber. As of 1905, they run the '''Rubbery Market''' to trade in it,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Rubbery_Market|The Rubbery Market|Sunless Skies}} ''"They trade in amber, a naturally exuded substance of their kind, making trade more ceremonial than commercial."''</ref> and still use it for shaping.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Shapeling_Vats|The Shapeling Vats|Sunless Skies}} ''"You carefully traverse a thin, treacherous path lined with endless deep, slime filled cavities and basins. All around, the Rubberies work at refining and reshaping amber into new forms and colours."''</ref> It still comes in a variety of colors: beige, red, green, blue, gold. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== |
Revision as of 17:24, 4 June 2025
"Warmly glowing and, er, slightly warm."[1]
Amber, also called deep amber, is a substance secreted[2] and traded by Rubbery Men and used in the Shapeling Arts. It is warm to the touch;[3] warmer amber is more potent,[4] and particularly potent amber will tremble[5] or pulsate like a little heart.[6] More powerful amber can contain a great quantity of energy[7] and memories.[8] Pulsating Amber seems to attract Rubbery Men, for some reason.[9]
This substance is also used extensively by Starved Men, who store it in vats to fuel their own practice of the Shapeling Arts.[10] During the events that followed the London Horticultural Show, amber rained down from the Roof above.[11] It is most effective for shaping, regardless of one's species, when heated to a boil.[12]
How Very Colorful
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"Amber tumbles through your fingers like jewelled rain. It is warm beneath your palms, and it sings of transformation. Deep reds, fecund greens, the blues of lost lightning."[13]
Amber can be infused with various colors of the Neathbow,[14] like irrigo.[15][16] While not explicitly stated, the properties of green-tinted Fecund Amber[17] imply that it is infused with viric.[18] The most potent of amber is the irrigo-soaked[19] core of a Fluke,[20] which contains ancient memories.[21]
Apocyanic amber[22] is also known to exist, as is blood-red amber[23] (although it is unclear whether the latter has any specific properties or Neathbow infusion).
Vital Essences
"...something without an easy translation. Something that humans have and rocks don't. Bats have it, water doesn't, amber doesn't much."[24]
Much of Flute Street is constructed from fresh, clear amber.[25][26] The amber flows and solidifies over time, engulfing older structures.[27][28]
Down here, the Rubbery Men have built labs where they use amber as a catalyst for the Shapeling Arts.[29] The amber traps Vital Essences - life essence - which provides the fuel for transmutation.[30] As such, the Flukes dwelling in Flute Street command the Rubbery Men within their purview to gather Vital Essences around London.[31] Pulsating Amber contains enough Vital Essence that the Rubberies would like to collect it; this energy can also hold a memory of Axile, the lost home planet of the Shapeling species.[32]
The pools of Axile were stores of Vital Essences,[33] and thus were places to practice the Shapeling Arts.[34]
Amber in the Skies
"You carefully traverse a thin, treacherous path lined with endless deep, slime filled cavities and basins. All around, the Rubberies work at refining and reshaping amber into new forms and colours."[35]
The Rubbery Men who have taken up residence in the House of Rods and Chains have not lost their fondness for amber. As of 1905, they run the Rubbery Market to trade in it,[36] and still use it for shaping.[37] It still comes in a variety of colors: beige, red, green, blue, gold.
Gallery
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Violet Amber
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Fecund Amber
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Fluke-Core
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Soft Amber
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Red Amber
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Green Amber
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Blue Amber
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Golden Amber
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