In the part 5 of the episode 6 of the Failbetter Games Podcast, Cash Decuir talks a bit about one of his story, The Persona Engine, and talks about the Discordance, and he’s this to say: "So the correspondence is the language of the star […] but where there is noise there is silence and in that silence, there is the Discordance, there is another language in that silence […]" He also make it clear that he is not talking about Parabola. If we take is talk of silence to its logical conclusion, the Discordance might be the language of darkness. So that might be something to explore, if we want to find out more about Darkness. Also, in that same podcast, Cash sings a shanty, so it’s very important the you watch that.