Peligin
"P drowns in PELIGIN, the colour of the deepest zee."[1]
Peligin is a color of the Neathbow; it is the color of the River.[2] The term "peligin" is seemingly a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek "pelagos" (πέλαγος), meaning "sea," and the color fuligin. Fuligin, in turn, is darker than black, and is derived from the English word "fuliginous" meaning soot-like; this color was used by Gene Wolfe in his science fiction novel The Shadow of the Torturer.
Properties
Peligin is a dark, dark black, beyond the reach of any light.[3] It is the hue of the waters of the Unterzee and those of the land of the dead, and also the color of the flesh of zee-monsters.[4]
Peligin has been portrayed as a range of different shades, from black to cyan to purples,[5] but always feels "monstrous."[6]
Uses
The eyes of Monster-Hunters turn permanently peligin after they consume the flesh of a zee-monster.[7] The Fathomking is known to be able to turn his prisoners' skin peligin.[8]
Gallery
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The broad, dark Unterzee. -
A Hunter's Eye. -
Mariam, the Schemer, with peligin skin.
References
- ↑ A Page from 'The Neathbow': Peligin, Sunless Sea
- ↑ A Chess-Piece tattoo, Fallen London
- ↑ Commission a set of fine clothes, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Hunter's Eye, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Per Bruno Dias on the FBG Discord: "But all the neathbow colors are sort of a range... viric runs from forest green through emeralds through chartreuse; peligin runs from black to cyan to purples"
- ↑ Per Bruno Dias on the FBG Discord: "Ultimately whether a given real color can be 'peligin' is not about whether it's in some range of hex values, it's about whether it feels (in a given context of use) 'monstrous'"
- ↑ Hunter's Eye, Sunless Sea ""Eat the flesh of the deep-lurkers, and your eyes will change.""
- ↑ Mariam, Sunless Sea
