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<blockquote>{{Object|image1=Gantletter.png|location=[[The Gant Pole]]<br>
<blockquote>''"G is lost in GANT, which remains when all other colours are eaten. Gant can be found where shadows are myriad."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/A_Page_from_%27The_Neathbow%27:_Gant|A Page from 'The Neathbow': Gant|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>[[File:Gantletter.png|thumb]]The color of the [[Neathbow]] that one sees in the dark, '''gant''' is more beige than one might expect.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_First_Curator#The_First_Curator.27s_Manse|Show it your Weeping Scar|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>  
[[The Avid Horizon]]<br>
The absence of even impossible color|related=[[The Neathbow]]}}
''"G is lost in GANT, which remains when all other colours are eaten. Gant can be found where shadows are myriad."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/A_Page_from_%27The_Neathbow%27:_Gant|A Page from 'The Neathbow': Gant|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>The color of the [[Neathbow]] that one sees in the dark, '''gant''' is more beige than one might expect.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_First_Curator#The_First_Curator.27s_Manse|Show it your Weeping Scar|Sunless Sea}}''"I imagined gant as... hungry grey... more... beige..."''</ref>  


== Properties ==
== Properties ==
<blockquote>''"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."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Empty_a_gant_box|Empty a gant box|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>Gant light consumes other colors around it.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Empty_a_gant_box|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."''</ref> Zee-beasts go to a place called the [[Gant Pole]] to die.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/A_Port_Report:_The_Gant_Pole|A Port Report: The Gant Pole|Sunless Sea}} ''"The forgotten depths where the elder beasts of the zee go to die."''</ref>
Gant light consumes other colors around it.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Empty_a_gant_box|Empty a gant box|Fallen London|}}</ref> Zee-beasts go to a place called the [[Gant Pole]] to die.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Gant_Pole#Port_description|Gant Pole|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>


Gant is usually portrayed as a sort of warm grey.<ref>{{Citation|https://discord.com/invite/failbettergames|Bruno (FBG)|Failbetter Games Discord Server}}''"Gant (Warm grey)"''</ref> This portrayal may be inspired by the color [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau eigengrau] (German: "intrinsic grey"), which people in real life reportedly see in the absence of light. It could also be a reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_latte cosmic latte], the light-beige average color of the universe.  
Gant is usually portrayed as a sort of warm grey.<ref>{{Citation|https://discord.com/invite/failbettergames|Bruno (FBG)|Failbetter Games Discord Server|}}''"Gant (Warm grey)"''</ref> It may be inspired by the color [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau eigengrau] (German: "intrinsic grey"), which people in real life reportedly see in the absence of light.<ref>{{Citation|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau|Eigengrau|Wikipedia|}}</ref> It could also be a reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_latte cosmic latte], the light-beige average color of the universe.  


== Uses==
== Uses==
<blockquote>''"It would be terribly bad luck to add gant ink to a tattoo, if the tattoo is not truthful..."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Offer_to_sponsor_the_ganting_of_the_tattoo_(5_FATE)|Offer to sponsor the ganting of the tattoo (5 FATE)|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>Gant is the color of the figurehead of the [[The Chelonate|Eater of Names]],<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Eater_of_Names#The_Eater_of_Names_is_destroyed|Seize its figurehead|Sunless Sea}} ''"The colour is gant: that colour which remains when all else has been consumed."''</ref> and perhaps most notoriously, it is also the color of the [[Avid Horizon]]'s gate.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Avid_Horizon#Port_interactions|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."''</ref>  
Gant is the color of the [[The Chelonate|Eater of Names']] boat,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_First_Curator#The_First_Curator.27s_Manse|Show it a sketch of the Figurehead of the Eater of Names|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> and perhaps most notoriously, it is also the color of the [[Avid Horizon]]'s gate.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Avid_Horizon#Port_interactions|Avid Horizon|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>  


Gant ink is used to remove or negate tattoos;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Offer_to_sponsor_the_ganting_of_the_tattoo_(5_FATE)|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..."''</ref> it also can be used as an invisible ink, meant for writing [[Licentiates]]' aliases.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_List_of_Aliases,_Writ_in_Gant|A List of Aliases, Writ in Gant|Fallen London}}''"[...] scribbled in gant-hued ink that can only be read in the dark."''</ref> Gant ink and liquid might remind one of tarnished silver or mercury,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Incident:_Get_a_private_tattoo_of_your_noman|An Incident: Get a private tattoo of your noman|Fallen London}} ''"The vial's contents gleam, suddenly, like old silver. "Gant ink," Millicent says."''</ref> though this may be an optical illusion.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Gant_Chamber|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."''</ref> In extremely concentrated forms, it is nearly invisible and can cause eye-strain.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Gant_Chamber|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."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Star-Shell|Item description|Sunless Sea}} ''"Don't look too closely at the eye-hurting absence of colour."''</ref>
Gant ink is used to remove false tattoos;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Offer_to_sponsor_the_ganting_of_the_tattoo_(5_FATE)|Offer to sponsor the ganting of the tattoo (5 FATE)|Fallen London|}}</ref> it also can be used as an invisible ink, meant for writing Licentiates' aliases.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_List_of_Aliases,_Writ_in_Gant|A List of Aliases, Writ in Gant|Fallen London|}}</ref> While still visible, gant ink might remind one of tarnished silver.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Incident:_Get_a_private_tattoo_of_your_noman|"The vial's contents gleam, suddenly, like old silver. "Gant ink ...""|Fallen London}}</ref>
 
Gant light is usually invisible<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Empty_a_gant_box|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."''</ref> but induces the sensation of "gnawing on the inside of one's head."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Gaze_into_the_Neathoscope|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."''</ref> Objects exposed to gant light appear washed of color afterwards,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Empty_a_gant_box|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."''</ref> and mirrorcatch boxes containing gant light feel less heavy than usual.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Gant-filled_Mirrorcatch_Box|Gant-filled Mirrorcatch Box|Fallen London}} ''"The box feels less heavy than it should. Is it possible for something to be assertively bland?"''</ref>


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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Gantpole.png|The Gant Pole
Gantpole.png|The Gant Pole
Eggblack.png|A [[Judgements|Star]]-Shell from the core of [[Frostfound]].
Eggblack.png|A [[Judgements|Star]]-Shell from the core of [[Frostfound]].
Mothmaskgilded.png|''The Gant Moth'' mask, worn for [[Hallowmas]].
Mothmaskgilded.png|<i>The Gant Moth</i> mask, worn for [[Hallowmas]].
Horizon Skies.png|The [[Avid Horizon]]'s High Gate.
Horizon Skies.png|The [[Avid Horizon]]'s High Gate.
Hatgant.png|A gant hat.
Hatgant.png|A gant hat.
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