The Neathbow

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"A book for children. One page is devoted to each of the colours of the Neath, which are not found on the Surface."[1]

The Neathbow is the collective term for seven colors which cannot be seen on the Surface. They are most commonly observed in the Neath (hence the name), but they also turn up in places like Parabola[2] and the High Wilderness.[3] The seven colors of the Neathbow are irrigo, violant, cosmogone, peligin, apocyan, viric, and gant.

Fireworks

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Fireworks featuring the Neathbow are occasionally lit during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose to celebrate the occasion.[4]

  • Irrigo fireworks can help dull memories of hard times.
  • Violant fireworks are hard to forget.
  • Viric fireworks induce lassitude.
  • Gant fireworks show depth of feeling - grandiose but a bit arrogant.

References

  1. THE NEATHBOW, Sunless Sea
  2. Parabola tattoo, Fallen London
  3. The Stair to the Sea, Sunless Skies
  4. Arrange a Explosion of Neath-Colours on the Stroke of Midnight (40 FATE), Fallen London

    "...violant [...] to ensure they'll think of you. Irrigo, to dull their memory of harder times. [...] viric, for lassitude. Finally [...] gant to show the depth of your feeling."