The Mountain of Light
"Turn your eyes south. Wait nine heart-beats. In the heart of the Elder Continent, a tiny fugitive gleam of warmth. It's gone."[1]
The Mountain of Light is a massive, glowing peak located deep within the Elder Continent. For her radiance and its life-giving effects, she is worshipped as Stone, one of the three gods of the Unterzee.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The Life-Giver
Stone is many things: a living mountain far to the south of the Presbyterate, the source of the Wax Wind[2], the daughter of the Bazaar and the Sun,[3] the mother of Mt. Nomad[4] and a host of other creatures. People from around the Elder Continent regularly make pilgrimages to her, and sometimes they clip relics (called Mountain-Sherds) from her slopes.[5][6]
Stone influences the lives of nearly all who inhabit the Neath. The unnatural, unexplainable vitality she emits is what makes death in this realm mostly impermanent.[4][7] A piece of the mountain at the center of Polythreme[8] makes the normally inanimate denizens so alive that they scream,[9] and the citizens of the Elder Continent are particularly long-lived.[10]
The Thief-of-Faces - the original Snuffer - created Mt Nomad many ages ago by stealing jewels from Stone's wombs.[11]
At the heart of the mountain is the Garden.[12] It is said that this place can give immortality and eternal youth, which is why the Dilmun Club is trying to reach the Mountain.[13] In the meantime, only the members of the College of Mortality have access to the garden,[14] although flying creatures have travel to the garden in the past.[15] Some seed from a fruit in Garden ended up in Parabola, and a tree is now growing there, producing apples that give vitality.[15]
Gaining Stone's attention may make you healthier and more agile. Her curse, on the other hand, denies you home and hearth -- your sleep will be restless, unhealing and plagued with nightmares. [16] Stone is perhaps the most impactful and influential Zee-god. Be wary of surprise bits of stone and even diamonds showing up unaccounted for on the ship; these may mean Stone is watching you from her glowing, ever-living mountain home.[17]
The Mountain 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. It may also reference Debre Berhan, a former capital of Ethiopia whose name is Amharic for "Mountain of Light".
References
- ↑ Something bright , Sunless Sea
- ↑ Accept the Wax-Wind, Fallen London
- ↑ Go ashore with the Adventuress, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Flint, Fallen London
- ↑ The Pilgrimage to Amaradri, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Mountain-sherd, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Leisurely enquiries, Fallen London
- ↑ Meeting the King, Fallen London
- ↑ Meeting the King, Fallen London
- ↑ "None shall live a thousand years." , Sunless Sea
- ↑ Flint, Fallen London "The Mountain cast us all out of the Garden, when it found that our progenitor had taken jewels from its wombs, to make a weapon to serve its hatred. I will tell you of the weapon it made."
- ↑ A word with His Amused Lordship, Fallen London
- ↑ A word with the Detective, Fallen London
- ↑ Liberty, equality, eternity, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Rarest fruit, Sunless Sea
- ↑ The Gods of the Zee: Stone's Curse, Sunless Sea Currently there are no effects whatsoever, apart from the achievement the first time you get the curse.
- ↑ A Tooth-Cracking Treasure, Sunless Sea
