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<blockquote> | <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|}}''"I imagined gant as... hungry grey... more... beige..."''</ref> | ||
''"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. | |||
== Properties == | == Properties == | ||
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.fandom.com/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 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> 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. | ||
== Uses== | == Uses== | ||
Gant is the color of the figurehead of the [[The Chelonate|Eater of Names]],<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/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.gamepedia.com/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 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 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> In its concentrated and more visible form, gant ink might remind one of tarnished silver.<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> | ||
==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| | 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. |