Editing Cosmogone

[[Category:Parabola]]
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''"C lights COSMOGONE, the colour of remembered suns. The fecund, the foetid, the fungal: these flourish in the glow of cosmogone."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/A_Page_from_%27The_Neathbow%27:_Cosmogone|A Page from 'The Neathbow': Cosmogone|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>A shade of the [[Neathbow]] heavily associated with [[Parabola]], '''cosmogone''' is the color of remembered sunlight. The name "cosmogone" probably comes from the words "cosmogony", the study of the origin of the solar system or of the universe, and "gone".

== Properties ==
<blockquote>''"The light washes over your face like a wave of heated honey. But there's a coldness inside that warmth – like the taste of saccharin to sugar."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Empty_a_cosmogone-filled_box|Empty a cosmogone-filled box|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>Cosmogone light is warm,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Calendar_Code|The Calendar Code|Fallen London}} ''"The room of Summer swelters in darkness. It is alive with the memory of a faraway sun."''</ref> albeit with a touch of coldness,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Empty_a_cosmogone-filled_box|Empty a cosmogone-filled box|Fallen London}} ''"The light washes over your face like a wave of heated honey. But there's a coldness inside that warmth – like the taste of saccharin to sugar."''</ref> and encourages the growth of flora and fungi alike.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/A_Page_from_%27The_Neathbow%27:_Cosmogone|A Page from 'The Neathbow': Cosmogone|Sunless Sea}} ''"The fecund, the foetid, the fungal: these flourish in the glow of cosmogone."''</ref> It is the color of the Parabolan sun, the [[Skin of the Sun]], and is irresistible to the denizens of mirrors.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Set_of_Cosmogone_Spectacles|Set of Cosmogone Spectacles|Fallen London}}''"The lenses are the colour of remembered sunshine, which the things behind mirrors find irresistible."''</ref>

== Uses ==
<blockquote>''"The lenses are the colour of remembered sunshine, which the things behind mirrors find irresistible."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Set_of_Cosmogone_Spectacles|Set of Cosmogone Spectacles|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>Cosmogone is the most prominent color in Ray-Drenched Cinders,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Ray-Drenched_Cinder|Ray-Drenched Cinder|Sunless Sea}}"''Sizzling with cosmogone light. It has absorbed radiation not of this earth."''</ref> which also contain the radiances of other Neathbow colors like [[irrigo]] and [[violant]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ray-Drenched_Cinder|Ray-Drenched Cinder|Fallen London}}''"Sizzling with violant and irrigo light."''</ref> It is also the tint of a [[Silverers|Silverer]]'s spectacles, thanks to its effect on [[Parabolan]] creatures.<ref name=":0" /> Cosmogone film provides "luminous highlights"<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Purchase_a_reel_of_Cosmogone-emulsion_film|Purchase a reel of Cosmogone-emulsion film|Fallen London}} ''""Luminous highlights. Ideal for outdoor scenes, if, uh, we only had any.""''</ref> and makes pictures seem idealized and sentimental.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Develop_the_reel_you_exposed_in_Hallow%27s_Throat|Develop the reel you exposed in Hallow's Throat|Fallen London}} ''"This scene is cast in a hazy, soft glow that suggests [...] nostalgia. Like an old tintype or a romantic cameo pendant, set to motion. The Starved Men – their ambered features, their odd-jointed bodies – seem nearly to glow in the light of the False-Stars. And in the distance, those stars are themselves moving in a slow dance."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Develop_the_reel_you_exposed_in_Hallow%27s_Throat|Develop the reel you exposed in Hallow's Throat|Fallen London}} ''"This vision of the city centres on Veilgarden – and what a vision of Veilgarden it is! Never have the Bohemians looked so fiery and so fey [...] Their every expression – expanded to the size of the screen, their eyes enormous pools of light – threatens to make the viewer fall in love on the spot."''</ref>

The ''Legenda Cosmogone'' is "a compendium and denunciation of false saints," including the [[Saints of Hell]], the testaments of St. Joshua that dictate the rites of [[Midnighters]], the Seven Saints of [[Mr Eaten|Appetite]], and "other fabricated martyrs"<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Legenda_Cosmogone|Legenda Cosmogone|Fallen London}} ''"A compendium and denunciation of false saints, their advocations, miracles and iconographies. Inclusive of the Saints of Hell, the hidden hagiographies of Saint Joshua and the Seven Saints of Appetite, among many other fabricated martyrs. The theological equivalent of a hammer to a plaster idol."''</ref> (e.g. the creations of [[Crooked-Crosses]]). It is written in [[violant]] ink and illustrated in gold and cosmogone, and was apparently quite the perilous task for the monks of [[Godfall]] to write.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Legenda_Cosmogone|The Legenda Cosmogone|Fallen London}} ''"The pages are Goat-demon vellum; the ink violant [...] the illuminations are rendered in gold and cosmogone. Each page was copied in Godfall [...] The scribes were isolated from each other until the completion of the text, to avoid contamination. Each and every one went mad before the process was done."''</ref> It would seem that the illustrations provide the reasoning behind the title of the book.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="100" spacing="small">
Cosmogonespectacles.png|A Silverer's Spectacles.
Parabola medium.png|The Mirror-Marches, bathed in cosmogone light.
Crownmaskgilded.png|''The Cosmogone Crown'' mask, worn for [[Hallowmas]].
Cinder.png|A Ray-drenched Cinder.
</gallery>

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