Gant

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"G is lost in GANT, which remains when all other colours are eaten. Gant can be found where shadows are myriad."[1]

The color of the Neathbow that one sees in the dark, gant is more beige than one might expect.[2]

Properties

Gant light consumes other colors around it.[3] Zee-beasts go to a place called the Gant Pole to die.[4]

Gant is usually portrayed as a sort of warm grey.[5] This portrayal may be inspired by the color eigengrau (German: "intrinsic grey"), which people in real life reportedly see in the absence of light. It could also be a reference to cosmic latte, the light-beige average color of the universe.

Uses

Gant is the color of the figurehead of the Eater of Names,[6] and perhaps most notoriously, it is also the color of the Avid Horizon's gate.[7]

Gant ink is used to remove or negate tattoos;[8] it also can be used as an invisible ink, meant for writing Licentiates' aliases.[9] In its concentrated and more visible form, gant ink might remind one of tarnished silver.[10]

Gallery

  • A Licentiate's aliases, written in gant ink.
    A Licentiate's aliases, written in gant ink.
  • The Eater of Names's gant bow.
    The Eater of Names's gant bow.
  • The Gant Pole
    The Gant Pole
  • A Star-Shell from the core of Frostfound.
    A Star-Shell from the core of Frostfound.
  • The Gant Moth mask, worn for Hallowmas.
    The Gant Moth mask, worn for Hallowmas.
  • The Avid Horizon's High Gate.
    The Avid Horizon's High Gate.
  • A gant hat.
    A gant hat.

References

  1. ↑ A Page from 'The Neathbow': Gant, Sunless Sea
  2. ↑ Show it your Weeping Scar, Sunless Sea "I imagined gant as... hungry grey... more... beige..."
  3. ↑ Empty a gant box, Fallen London "[...] your clothes, the upholstery on the furniture, the covers of the books on the shelves: everything looks a little duller, abraded by the passing of the light that devours."
  4. ↑ A Port Report: The Gant Pole, Sunless Sea "The forgotten depths where the elder beasts of the zee go to die."
  5. ↑ Bruno (FBG), Failbetter Games Discord Server "Gant (Warm grey)"
  6. ↑ Seize its figurehead, Sunless Sea "The colour is gant: that colour which remains when all else has been consumed."
  7. ↑ Avid Horizon, Sunless Sea "Two vast winged shapes guard a gate of something like resin [...] It is deep gant - the colour that remains when all other colours have been eaten."
  8. ↑ Offer to sponsor the ganting of the tattoo (5 FATE), Fallen London "Gant is the colour that remains when all other colours are eaten. It would be terribly bad luck to add gant ink to a tattoo, if the tattoo is not truthful..."
  9. ↑ A List of Aliases, Writ in Gant, Fallen London "[...] scribbled in gant-hued ink that can only be read in the dark."
  10. ↑ An Incident: Get a private tattoo of your noman, Fallen London "The vial's contents gleam, suddenly, like old silver. "Gant ink," Millicent says."
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