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[edit | edit source]

"Was the box always empty? No – 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."[3]

Gant light consumes other colors around it.[4] Zee-beasts go to a place called the Gant Pole to die.[5]

Gant is usually portrayed as a sort of warm grey.[6] 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[edit | edit source]

"It would be terribly bad luck to add gant ink to a tattoo, if the tattoo is not truthful..."[7]

Gant is the color of the figurehead of the Eater of Names,[8] and perhaps most notoriously, it is also the color of the Avid Horizon's gate.[9]

Gant ink is used to remove or negate tattoos;[10] it also can be used as an invisible ink, meant for writing Licentiates' aliases.[11] Gant ink and liquid might remind one of tarnished silver or mercury,[12] though this may be an optical illusion.[13] In extremely concentrated forms, it is nearly invisible and can cause eye-strain.[14][15]

Gant light is usually invisible[16] but induces the sensation of "gnawing on the inside of one's head."[17] Objects exposed to gant light appear washed of color afterwards,[18] and mirrorcatch boxes containing gant light feel less heavy than usual.[19]

Gallery[edit | edit source]

  • 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[edit | edit source]

  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
  4. ↑ 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."
  5. ↑ A Port Report: The Gant Pole, Sunless Sea "The forgotten depths where the elder beasts of the zee go to die."
  6. ↑ Bruno (FBG), Failbetter Games Discord Server "Gant (Warm grey)"
  7. ↑ Offer to sponsor the ganting of the tattoo (5 FATE), Fallen London
  8. ↑ Seize its figurehead, Sunless Sea "The colour is gant: that colour which remains when all else has been consumed."
  9. ↑ 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."
  10. ↑ 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..."
  11. ↑ A List of Aliases, Writ in Gant, Fallen London "[...] scribbled in gant-hued ink that can only be read in the dark."
  12. ↑ An Incident: Get a private tattoo of your noman, Fallen London "The vial's contents gleam, suddenly, like old silver. "Gant ink," Millicent says."
  13. ↑ Join the Old Zailors, Sunless Sea "You undress and step into the shallow pool. Its surface is the silver of mercury, though that is only a trick of the darkness."
  14. ↑ Take a sample of Gant from the pool, Sunless Sea "The absence of colour, the presence of form [...] A shell so infused with the gant, it is barely even visible in the light."
  15. ↑ Item description, Sunless Sea "Don't look too closely at the eye-hurting absence of colour."
  16. ↑ Empty a gant box, Fallen London "Was the box always empty? No [...] everything looks a little duller, abraded by the passing of the light that devours."
  17. ↑ Gaze into the Neathoscope, Fallen London "You see nothing – nothing at all – within the machine. But there's a grainy, prickly sensation; as if something is gnawing on the inside of your head."
  18. ↑ Empty a gant box, Fallen London "Was the box always empty? No – 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."
  19. ↑ Gant-filled Mirrorcatch Box, Fallen London "The box feels less heavy than it should. Is it possible for something to be assertively bland?"
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