Apocyan
"A wakes APOCYAN, the blue of memory and brightest coral."[1]
A color of the Neathbow, apocyan is the color of coral, of memory,[2] and of the Zee's waves.[3] Chess pieces of this color are sourced from Port Cecil,[4] and Crooked-Crosses often lacquer their crosses in this color.[5] Blue Scintillack is extremely valuable and blazes with apocyanic radiance.[6] And an apocyanic piece of amber may be what brings down the Bazaar...[7]
Apocyan can also be used to create "daguerrotypes" of dreams and certain memories, often by blinking in these dreams to produce flashes of apocyanic light.[8]
The name "apocyan" presumably derives from the color cyan, which has a similar hue, and the Greek prefix apo-, meaning something between "off, away" and "descended from"[9], like in words "apostate" (gone-away from-a-cause) or "apocalypse" (un-covering).
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An Apocyan Chess-Piece. -
A Crooked-Cross. -
Blue Scintillack
References
- ↑ A Page from 'The Neathbow': Apocyan, Sunless Sea
- ↑ A Page from 'The Neathbow': Apocyan, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Sunless tattoo, Fallen London
- ↑ Apocyan Chess-Piece, Sunless Sea
- ↑ A Crooked Cross, Fallen London
- ↑ A Lump of Blue Scintillack, Sunless Sea
- ↑ "I bring the Bazaar.", Fallen London "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. "
- ↑ Cast a flare into the shadows., Fallen London
- ↑ Origin and meaning of the prefix apo-, Online Etymology Dictionary
