Editing The Mountain of Light

[[The Bazaar]] (parent)<br>

[[Salt]]|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/hope-is-an-anchor Hope is an Anchor]}}<blockquote>''"Turn your eyes south. Wait nine heart-beats. In the heart of the Elder Continent, a tiny fugitive gleam of warmth. It's gone."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_View_from_Above|Something bright |Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>'''The Mountain of Light''' is a massive, glowing peak located deep within the [[Elder Continent]]. For her radiance and its life-giving effects, she is worshipped as '''Stone''', one of the three [[gods of the Unterzee]].

Stone is a living mountain far to the south of the [[Presbyterate]]. She is the daughter of the [[Bazaar]] and the [[Sun]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Watch_the_play_for_a_little_while_4|Watch the play for a little while 4|Fallen London}} ''"They drag the Messenger screaming, [...] where the Chained Sun and the Messenger's Daughter wait."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Adam's_Way#Adam.27s_Way|Go ashore with the Adventuress|Sunless Sea}}''"The Bazaar is the Mountain's mother, they say. Or her father. I don't understand how these things work. I wonder if she ever complains about her parents."''</ref> and the mother of [[Mt Nomad]]<ref name="flint">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London}}</ref> and [[The Shames|a host of other creatures]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London}} ''""Shames!" [...] "Mountain's get!""''</ref>

Stone is as old as the Earth itself,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Dump_it_on_the_fire|Dump it on the fire|Fallen London|}} ''"Yes... this is how the Mountain is remembered. When the Garden first was young, when the Neath was not the Neath, when the Earth had not yet set like candle-wax, when the jewels remained uncovered to casual sight."''</ref> and influences the lives of nearly all who inhabit the Neath. The unnatural, unexplainable vitality she emits is what makes [[death]] in this realm mostly impermanent.<ref name="flint" /><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Leisurely_enquiries|Leisurely enquiries|Fallen London}}</ref> A piece of the mountain at the center of [[Polythreme]]<ref name="fallenlondon.wiki">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Meeting_the_King|Meeting the King|Fallen London}}</ref> makes the normally inanimate denizens so alive that they scream,<ref name="fallenlondon.wiki"/> and the citizens of the [[Elder Continent]] are particularly long-lived.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Presbyterate_Adventuress|"None shall live a thousand years." |Sunless Sea}}</ref> She is also the source of the [[Wax-Wind]]''',''' said to be her weeping,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London}} ''""Two things which are not Mysteries, precisely. [...] I have heard that the Wax-Wind is her weeping.""''</ref> which blows across the zee and poses a frequent hazard to zailors.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Accept_the_Wax-Wind|Accept the Wax-Wind|Fallen London}}''"The Wax-Wind blows from the Elder Continent, from the Mountain-of-Light."''</ref> And of course she glows, enough to blind anyone who gets too close without proper protection<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Seven_Years_Later|Seven Years Later|Sunless Sea}}''"Then you reach up and pluck his sapphire lenses away. He screams as his eyes boil."''</ref> - though she is courteous enough to dim her light at night.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London}} ''The Rubbery Man has more human language than most of its kind, but the conversation is challenging, nonetheless. As far as you can tell, a ship chartered by the Vespertine – by the "Patronesh" – is landing tonight, when the Mountain's glow dims. It wishes you to "shabotage shuppliesh".''</ref>

At the heart of the Mountain is '''[[the Garden]]''', the source of all its vitality;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_word_with_His_Amused_Lordship|A word with His Amused Lordship|Fallen London}}</ref> said to grant immortality and eternal youth, this place has been the target of many an expedition.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_word_with_the_Detective|A word with the Detective|Fallen London}}</ref> It is the birthplace of the [[Snuffers]], who were cast out after the first of their kind wounded the Mountain. Now the only things that may enter are birds and other flying creatures, so hunting these is strictly forbidden in the Presbyterate. According to the [[Presbyterate Adventuress]], only these creatures are allowed in because the Mountain dreams of [[The High Wilderness|flight]].<ref name="homeland">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Presbyterate_Adventuress|The Last Night: Record her memoirs about her homeland|Sunless Sea}}''"But we will kill nothing that flies. The story is that they carry the airs of the Garden, that permit us to live forever. But I think it's sentiment. I think the Mountain dreams of flight..."''</ref>

[[File:Riverofblood.png|thumb|The Nameless River flows with Stone's blood. Art from FL.]]Stone bears multiple wounds that bleed over the Elder Continent and down the Nameless River.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London}}''"The blood of the nameless river flows from the Mountain's wound."''</ref> No one may truly know who inflicted them, and it may have been multiple parties<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London}} ''"I have heard the Thief-of-Faces did her the harm. I have heard it was a dragon out of the deep sky. I have heard the wound remains from when she birthed Mt Nomad. I have heard she wounded herself, to protest the orders of Heaven. I have heard she did it so we all would share in her immortality. I have heard the Bazaar smote her flank, when it entered the Neath.""''</ref> - one being the [[Thief-of-Faces]], who is known to have raped her long ago.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''"The Mountain cast us all out of the Garden, when it found that our progenitor had taken jewels from its wombs, to make a weapon to serve its hatred. I will tell you of the weapon it made."''</ref> These wounds leak life; for instance, '''the Lesser Wound''' is located on one of her limbs, near the [[The Prison of Flint|Prison of Flint]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London}}''"The Vignerons will not approach the central knoll. A spring flows from its side into a deep pool – red like the waters of the Nameless River, but a deeper red."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London}}''"You see how a far-flung Mountain-limb underlies the Vineyard, and you understand that the Lesser Wound leaks life."''</ref> Stone bore [[Mt Nomad]] after her assault by the Thief-of-Faces.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Just_one|Just one|Fallen London|}} ''"We don't choose our memories, though we might wish we could. Here is recorded the name of Mount Nomad, grand-daughter of the Bazaar. She will not rest in peace. May she roam the Zee in silence."''</ref>

 

The Mountain dreams of visiting her daughter.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Scent_your_pillow_with_it|Scent your pillow with it|Fallen London|}} ''"In your dream, you pass above the waters of the Unterzee like a stately shooting-star, grappling the air as a monkey climbs a hedge. There – a pinnacle of black glass, growing among the waves. Call out to it! Draw the letters! It's been too long since you spoke –"''</ref>